CONTEXT-AWARE MOBILE COMPUTING FOR AUTOMATIC ENVIRONMENT DETECTION AND RE-ESTABLISHMENT

• US 20130229929A1
• Filed: 03/01/2012
• Published: 09/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Linsky, Joel Benjamin
• Granted Patent: US 9,648,490 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/252
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/14 Reselecting a network or an air interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals

Abstract

Automatically discovering and re-establishing wireless connections to other devices in a mobile computing environment (MCE) may be achieved by monitoring connections of different devices with the UE, correlating the connections of the different devices, determining an MCE based on the correlations, and storing information associated with the MCE. A known MCE may accordingly be automatically detected based on an identification of at least one of the different devices, for example, and connection with one or more of the different devices may be automatically re-established to re-establish the MCE based on the stored information.

Claims

1. A method for connecting user equipment (UE) comprising:

monitoring connections of different devices with the UE;

correlating the connections of the different devices;

determining a mobile computing environment (MCE) based on the correlations; and

storing information associated with the MCE.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

automatically detecting a known MCE based on an identification of at least one of the different devices; and

automatically re-establishing connection with one or more of the different devices to re-establish the MCE based on the stored information.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

disabling at least one RF device on the UE based on the re-established MCE.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the identification of at least one of the different devices is based on a MAC address, device ID, Bluetooth device address, network SSID, IP address, or cell tower address of the different device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the correlating further comprises:

obtaining historical information regarding the connections with the different devices.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein at least two of the different devices communicate with the UE using different wireless technologies from another of the different devices.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining the MCE based on GPS location and/or other location based services.

8. User equipment (UE) comprising:

logic configured to monitor connections of different devices with the UE;

logic configured to correlate the connections of the different devices;

logic configured to determine a mobile computing environment (MCE) based on the correlations; and

memory configured to store information associated with the MCE.

9. The UE of claim 8, further comprising:

logic configured to automatically detect a known MCE based on an identification of at least one of the different devices; and

logic configured to automatically re-establish connection with one or more of the different devices to re-establish the MCE based on the stored information.

10. The UE of claim 9, further comprising:

logic configured to disable at least one RF device on the UE based on the re-established MCE.

11. The UE of claim 9, wherein the identification of at least one of the different devices is based on a MAC address, device ID, Bluetooth device address, network SSID, IP address, or cell tower address of the different devices.

12. The UE of claim 8, wherein the correlating logic comprises:

logic configured to obtain historical information regarding the connections with the different devices.

13. The UE of claim 8, wherein at least two of the different devices communicate with the UE using different wireless technologies from another of the different devices.

14. The UE of claim 8, further comprising:

logic configured to determine the MCE based on GPS location and/or other location based services.

15. An apparatus for connecting user equipment (UE), comprising:

means for monitoring connections of different devices with the UE;

means for correlating the connections of the different devices;

means for determining a mobile computing environment (MCE) based on the correlations; and

means for storing information associated with the MCE.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, further comprising:

means for automatically detecting a known MCE based on an identification of at least one of the different devices; and

means for automatically re-establishing connection with one or more of the different devices to re-establish the MCE based on the stored information.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, further comprising:

means for disabling at least one RF devices on the UE based on the re-established MCE.

18. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the identification of at least one of the different devices is based on a MAC address, device ID, Bluetooth device address, network SSID, IP address, or cell tower address of the different device.

19. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the means for correlating comprises:

means for obtaining historical information regarding the connections with the different devices.

20. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein at least two of the different devices communicate with the UE using different wireless technologies from another of the different devices.

21. The apparatus of claim 15, further comprising:

means for determining the MCE based on GPS location and/or other location based services.

22. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by at least one processor causes the at least one processor to perform operations for connecting user equipment (UE), the instructions comprising:

instructions to monitor connections of different devices with the UE;

instructions to correlate the connections of the different devices; and

instructions to determine a mobile computing environment (MCE) based on the correlations; and

instructions to store information associated with the MCE.

23. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 22, further comprising:

instructions to automatically detect a known MCE based on an identification of at least one of the different devices; and

instructions to automatically re-establish connection with one or more of the different devices to re-establish the MCE based on the stored information.

24. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 23, further comprising:

instructions to disable at least one RF devices on the UE based on the re-established MCE.

25. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 22, wherein the instructions to correlate comprise:

instructions to obtain historical information regarding the interactions and connections with the different devices.

26. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 22, further comprising:

instructions to determine the MCE based on GPS location and/or other location based services.