SCHEMES FOR PROVIDING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

• US 20140086225A1
• Filed: 03/19/2012
• Published: 03/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC (Allied Inventors Management, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC (Allied Inventors Management, LLC)
• Inventors: Jung, Yang-Won
• Granted Patent: US 8,824,443 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/338
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/02 Access restriction performed under specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/06 based on traffic conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/18 Selecting a network or a communication service
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/20 Selecting an access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/12 Setup of transport tunnels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

Technologies are generally described for providing wireless communications. In some examples, a method performed under control of a mobile operating server may include determining whether there is an authenticated wireless access point around a mobile device, if there is no authenticated wireless access point, determining whether there is a non-authenticated wireless access point whose capacity is over a predetermined value around the mobile device and if there is a non-authenticated wireless access point whose capacity is over the predetermined value, instructing the mobile device to connect to a wireless local area network provided by the non-authenticated wireless access point.

Claims

1. A method performed under control of a mobile operating server, comprising:

determining whether there is an authenticated Wi-Fi access point around a mobile device;

if there is an authenticated Wi-Fi access point around the mobile device, instructing the mobile device to connect to a Wi-Fi network provided by the authenticated Wi-Fi access point;

if there is no authenticated Wi-Fi access point around the mobile device, determining whether there is a non-authenticated Wi-Fi access point whose capacity is over a predetermined value around the mobile device;

if there is a non-authenticated Wi-Fi access point whose capacity is over the predetermined value around the mobile device, instructing the mobile device to connect to a Wi-Fi network provided by the non-authenticated Wi-Fi access point whose capacity is over the predetermined value;

initiating a virtual private network (VPN) with the mobile device connected to the Wi-Fi network provided by the authenticated Wi-Fi access point or the non-authenticated Wi-Fi access point; and

instructing the mobile device to disable uplink transmission from the mobile device to the authenticated Wi-Fi access point or the non-authenticated Wi-Fi access point, and to maintain downlink transmission from the authenticated Wi-Fi access point or the non-authenticated Wi-Fi access point to the mobile device.

2. A method performed under control of a mobile operating server, comprising:

determining whether there is an authenticated wireless access point around a mobile device;

if there is no authenticated wireless access point around the mobile device, determining whether there is a non-authenticated wireless access point whose capacity is over a predetermined value around the mobile device; and

if there is a non-authenticated wireless access point whose capacity is over the predetermined value around the mobile device, instructing the mobile device to connect to a wireless local area network provided by the non-authenticated wireless access point whose capacity is over the predetermined value.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

if there is an authenticated wireless access point around the mobile device, instructing the mobile device to connect to a wireless local area network provided by the authenticated wireless access point.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the authenticated wireless access point includes at least one of a wireless access point controlled by the mobile operating server and a wireless access point previously used by the mobile device.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the determining whether there is a non-authenticated wireless access point whose capacity is over a predetermined value around the mobile device comprising:

detecting a non-authenticated wireless access point around the mobile device;

measuring a capacity of the detected non-authenticated wireless access point; and

determining whether the measured capacity is over the predetermined value.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the predetermined value is associated with a task to be executed in the mobile device.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the capacity and the predetermined value are associated with a bandwidth provided by the non-authenticated wireless access point.

8. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

if there is no non-authenticated wireless access point whose capacity is over the predetermined value around the mobile device, instructing the mobile device to connect to a mobile telecommunications network.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the mobile telecommunications network includes at least one

of 3rd generation (3G) mobile telecommunications network and 4th generation (4G) mobile telecommunications network.

10. The method of claim 3, wherein the authenticated wireless access point and the non-authenticated wireless access point respectively include a Wi-Fi access point, and the wireless local area network provided by the authenticated wireless access point and the wireless local area network provided by the non-authenticated wireless access point respectively include a Wi-Fi network.

11. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

determining whether a quality of service (QoS) of the wireless local area network to which the mobile device is connected is guaranteed.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the determining whether a quality of service (QoS) of the wireless local area network to which the mobile device is connected is guaranteed is performed based at least in part on at least one of a capacity of the wireless local area network to which the mobile device is connected and a task to be executed in the mobile device.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

upon determining that the quality of service (QoS) of the wireless local area network to which the mobile device is connected is not guaranteed, instructing the mobile device to disconnect from the connected wireless local area network, and to connect to a mobile telecommunications network.

14. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

initiating a virtual private network (VPN) with the mobile device connected to the wireless local area network provided by the authenticated wireless access point or the non-authenticated wireless access point.

15. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

receiving from the mobile device a flag indicating amounts of traffic to be transmitted from or to the mobile device through the wireless local area network provided by the authenticated wireless access point or the non-authenticated wireless access point.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

if the amounts of traffic are not transmitted through the wireless local area network provided by the authenticated wireless access point or the non-authenticated wireless access point within a predetermined time, instructing the mobile device to disconnect from the wireless local area network provided by the authenticated wireless access point or the non-authenticated wireless access point, and to connect to a mobile telecommunications network.

17. A method performed under control of a mobile operating server, comprising:

determining whether there is a wireless access point around a mobile device; and

if there is a wireless access point around the mobile device, instructing a mobile device to connect to a wireless local area network provided by the wireless access point, to disable uplink transmission from the mobile device to the wireless access point through the wireless local area network, and to maintain downlink transmission from the wireless access point to the mobile device through the wireless local area network,

wherein the determining whether there is a wireless access point around a mobile device includes determining whether there is at least one of an authenticated wireless access point and a non-authenticated wireless access point whose capacity is over a predetermined value around the mobile device, and the instructing a mobile device to connect to a wireless local area network provided by the wireless access point includes instructing the mobile device to connect to the wireless local area network provided by the at least one of the authenticated wireless access point and the non-authenticated wireless access point whose capacity is over the predetermined value.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the wireless access point includes a Wi-Fi access point, and the wireless local area network includes a WiFi network.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

instructing the mobile device to use a mobile telecommunications network provided by the mobile operating server for uplink transmission from the mobile device to the mobile operating server.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the mobile telecommunications network includes at least one of 3rd generation (3G) mobile telecommunications network and 4th generation (4G) mobile telecommunications network.

22. The method of claim 17, wherein the authenticated wireless access point includes at least one of a wireless access point controlled by the mobile operating server and a wireless access point previously used by the mobile device.

23. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

initiating a virtual private network (VPN) with the mobile device connected to the wireless local area network.

24. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

receiving from the mobile device a flag indicating amounts of traffic to be transmitted from or to the mobile device through the wireless local area network.

25. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

if the amounts of traffic are not transmitted through the wireless local area network within a predetermined time, instructing the mobile device to disconnect from the wireless local area network, and to connect to the mobile telecommunications network.

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28. A mobile operating server, comprising:

an available wireless access point determination unit configured to;

determine whether there is an available wireless access point around a mobile device, and

determine whether there is an authenticated wireless access point around the mobile device, the authenticated wireless access point including at least one of a wireless access point controlled by the mobile operating server and a wireless access point previously used by the mobile device; and

a network connection control unit configured to;

generate an instruction for the mobile device to use a wireless local area network provided by the available wireless access point for downlink communication and to use a mobile telecommunications network provided by the mobile operating server for uplink communication, and

generate an instruction for the mobile device to connect to a wireless local area network provided by the authenticated wireless access point, if the available wireless access point determination unit determines that there is an authenticated wireless access point around the mobile device.

29. The mobile operating server of claim 28, wherein the available wireless access point includes a Wi-Fi access point, and the wireless local area network includes a Wi-Fi network.

30. The mobile operating server of claim 28, wherein the mobile telecommunications network includes at least one of 3rd generation (3G) mobile telecommunications network and 4th generation (4G) mobile telecommunications network.

32. The mobile operating server of claim 28, wherein the available wireless access point determination unit is further configured to determine whether there is a non-authenticated wireless access point whose capacity is over a predetermined value around the mobile device, if there is no authenticated wireless access point around the mobile device, and

wherein the network connection control unit is further configured to generate an instruction for the mobile device to connect to a wireless local area network provided by the non-authenticated wireless access point whose capacity is over a predetermined value, if the available wireless access point determination unit determines that there is a non-authenticated wireless access point whose capacity is over the predetermined value around the mobile device.

33. The mobile operating server of claim 28, further comprising:

a transmitting unit configured to transmit to the mobile device the instruction generated by the network connection control unit.

34. The mobile operating server of claim 28, further comprising:

a VPN initiating unit configured to initiate a virtual private network with the mobile device connected to the wireless local area network.

35. The mobile operating server of claim 28, further comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive a flag indicating amounts of traffic to be transmitted from or to the mobile device through the wireless local area network.

36. The mobile operating server of claim 35, wherein the network connection control unit is further configured to generate an instruction for the mobile device to disconnect from the wireless local area network, when the amounts of traffic are not transmitted through the wireless local area network within a predetermined time.

37. The mobile operating server of claim 28, further comprising:

a QoS measuring unit configured to determine whether a quality of service (QoS) of the wireless local area network is guaranteed.

38. The mobile operating server of claim 37, wherein the network connection control unit is further configured to generate an instruction for the mobile device to disconnect from the wireless local area network, if the QoS measuring unit determines that the quality of service of the wireless local area network is not guaranteed.

31. (canceled)

39. A computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, in response to execution, cause a mobile operating server to perform operations, comprising:

determining whether there is an authenticated wireless access point around a mobile device;

if there is no authenticated wireless access point around the mobile device, determining whether there is a non-authenticated wireless access point whose capacity is over a predetermined value around the mobile device; and

if there is a non-authenticated wireless access point whose capacity is over the predetermined value around the mobile device, instructing the mobile device to connect to a wireless local area network provided by the non-authenticated wireless access point whose capacity is over the predetermined value.

40. (canceled)

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