CLOUD-BASED CONNECTIVITY

• US 20160021546A1
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Published: 01/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: CUERVO, Eduardo, KIM, Kyu-Han, CONGDON, Paul T
• Granted Patent: US 9,769,675 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 16/22 Traffic simulation tools or models
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/02 Arrangements for optimising operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/02 Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/24 Connectivity information management, e.g. connectivity discovery or connectivity update
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/18 Selecting a network or a communication service
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/00 Network topologies

Abstract

A cloud-based connectivity system is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of wireless devices and a computing device connected to at least one of the wireless devices. The computing device includes a control unit to receive context information from each of the plurality of wireless devices, to determine future consumption patterns for each of the plurality of wireless devices by using the received context information, to create a connectivity representation for the plurality of wireless devices, and to determine an optimal network topology for the plurality of wireless devices.

Claims

1. A cloud based connectivity system having a plurality of wireless devices, the system comprising:

a computing device connected to at least one of the wireless devices, the computing device having a control unit to;

receive context information from the plurality of wireless devices,

determine future consumption patterns for each of the plurality of wireless devices by using the received context information,

create a connectivity representation for the plurality of wireless devices, and

determine an optimal network topology for the plurality of wireless devices.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the control unit is to use the received context information, the future consumption patterns, and information about available network connections to create the connectivity representation.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the context information for each wireless device includes location of the wireless device at a specific time, battery level, battery charge time, power charge and discharge rate, bandwidth consumption, content consumption latency, data consumption, and available access points.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the control unit is to receive the context information from the wireless devices at predetermined time periods.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the future consumption patterns include predictions about a remaining battery level and a remaining data capacity at the end of each predetermined time period.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the control unit is to determine and evaluate a plurality of available topologies based on the connectivity representation to determine the optimal network topology for the plurality of wireless devices.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the control unit is to issue connectivity commands to each wireless device to implement the determined network topology.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the data frames include information about location of the wireless devices at a specific time, battery level, battery charge time, power charge and discharge rate, bandwidth consumption, content consumption latency, data consumption, and available access points.

8. A cloud-based connectivity method, the method comprising:

generating a plurality of data frames that include context information from a plurality of wireless devices;

determining future consumption patterns for each of the plurality of wireless devices by using the generated data frames;

determining a plurality of network connectivity options for the wireless devices using the received data frames, the future consumption patterns, and information about available network connections; and

selecting an optimal network topology for the plurality of wireless devices from the plurality of network connectivity options.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein determining the plurality of network connectivity options for the wireless devices includes creating a connectivity representation for the plurality of wireless devices.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the plurality of network connectivity options for the wireless devices are generated based on the connectivity representation.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein determining future consumption patterns for each of the plurality of wireless devices further includes using a default data associated with the wireless devices.

13. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processor of a cloud-based connectivity system, the machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions to:

acquire data from a plurality of wireless devices at predetermined time periods;

generate predictions related to a remaining battery level and a remaining data capacity for each of the wireless devices at the end of each predetermined time period by using the acquired data;

create a connectivity representation for the plurality of wireless devices with the acquired data, the generated predictions, and information about available network connections;

determine and evaluate available network topologies created based on the connectivity representation to determine an optimal network topology for the plurality of wireless devices; and

issue connectivity commands to each wireless device based on the determined optimal network topology.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 13, further comprising instructions to eliminate topologies that do not meet energy, data, and service requirements to determine the optimal network topology for the plurality of wireless devices.

15. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the optimal network topology provides largest bandwidth and lowest content consumption latency for the plurality of wireless devices.