FACILITATION OF CONNECTIVITY AND CONTENT MANAGEMENT IN MOBILE ENVIRONMENTS

• US 20140074995A1
• Filed: 09/07/2012
• Published: 03/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Beattie, James Gordon Jr., Chakraborty, Soumyajit, Huggins, Dave, Nair, Rakhee, Peitzer, Haywood S.
• Granted Patent: US 9,503,323 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/220
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/336 Signal-to-interference ratio [SIR] or carrier-to-interference ratio [CIR]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0816 the condition being an adaptation, e.g. in response to network events
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/083 for increasing network speed
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0888 Throughput
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/241 taking into account channel quality metrics, e.g. SIR, SNR, CIR, Eb/lo
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/44 in connection with interruption of transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/19 Connection re-establishment

Abstract

Connectivity and/or content management in mobile networks is provided. Information associated with a mobile device of a plurality of mobile devices is determined. In various embodiments, the information can be current or past usage or travel pattern information for the mobile device. The mobile device is configured in association with delivery of content. The configuration is based, at least, on the information associated with the mobile device. The mobile device is configured to request accelerated content delivery if the mobile device is located within a good coverage area, and to request connection re-establishment priority if the mobile device is approaching or located within a poor coverage area or a handoff area.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

determining, by a system including a processor, information associated with behavior of a mobile device of a plurality of mobile devices; and

facilitating configuring, by the system, of the mobile device to cause the mobile device to initiate a request for delivery of content based, at least, on the information associated with the behavior of the mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the information associated with the behavior of the mobile device comprises mobile device use information.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the mobile device use information comprises at least one of current usage information of the mobile device, or past usage information of the mobile device.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the mobile device use information comprises at least one of current travel pattern information of the mobile device or past travel pattern information of the mobile device.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the facilitating comprises facilitating the configuring of the mobile device to request a first type of content delivery of a plurality of types of content delivery based, at least, on a location of the mobile device being within a coverage area satisfying a predefined condition, wherein the first type of content delivery is content delivery at a predefined speed.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the predefined condition is satisfied based on data representing a level of network capacity or a level of signal-to-noise ratio for the coverage area.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the facilitating further comprises facilitating the configuring of the mobile device to request the accelerated content delivery based on the mobile device use information.

8. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

facilitating adjusting, by the system, of a network parameter to modify the coverage area based, at least, on receipt of a request for the accelerated content delivery or receipt of a request for a priority for re-establishment of a disconnected connection of the mobile device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the facilitating the adjusting comprises facilitating the adjusting of the network parameter to extend the coverage area for a defined number of the plurality of mobile devices for a defined amount of time.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the facilitating the adjusting comprises facilitating reducing of a number of connections between network devices in a network with which the mobile device is associated.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the facilitating the adjusting comprises facilitating the adjusting of the network parameter to modify a number of active sessions being handled by network devices of a network with which the mobile device is associated to support a type of traffic received by the mobile device.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the type of traffic comprises at least one of video, audio, a file transfer or voice.

13. The method of claim 2, wherein the facilitating comprises facilitating the configuring of the mobile device to request a priority for re-establishment of a disconnected connection of the mobile device based, at least, on a location of the mobile device being within a coverage area satisfying a predefined condition.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the facilitating further comprises facilitating the configuring of the mobile device to request a priority for re-establishment of a disconnected connection of the mobile device based on the mobile device use information.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

facilitating storage, by the system, of the information associated with the mobile device, wherein the storage is in the mobile device.

16. A tangible computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that, in response to execution, cause a system including a processor to perform operations, comprising:

determining mobile device use information for a mobile device of a plurality of mobile devices;

facilitating generation of a configuration of the mobile device based, at least, on the mobile device use information and use information for another mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices; and

receiving, from the mobile device, a request associated with content delivery based, at least, on the configuration of the mobile device.

17. The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the mobile device use information comprises current travel pattern information of the mobile device.

18. The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the request associated with content delivery comprises a request for a content delivery of a predefined speed based, at least, on the mobile device use information and network information representing a condition of a network with which the mobile device is associated, wherein the content delivery of the predefined speed is accelerated delivery relative to a speed of the content delivery prior to the request.

19. A system, comprising:

a memory that stores computer-executable instructions; and

a processor, communicatively coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of computer-executable instructions to at least;

determine information associated with a behavior of a first mobile device of a plurality of mobile devices;

configure a second mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices to request a priority for re-establishment of a disconnected connection of the second mobile device based, at least, on the information associated with the behavior of the first one mobile device and a first predefined condition of a network with which the second mobile device is associated; and

configure the second mobile device to request accelerated content delivery at a first speed based, at least, on the information associated with the behavior of the first mobile device and a second predefined condition of the network with which the second mobile device is associated, wherein the first speed is faster than a second speed, the second speed being associated with the speed of content delivery prior to the request for the accelerated content delivery of the first speed.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the information associated with the behavior of the first mobile device comprises past travel pattern information of the first mobile device.