Round robin assignment based communication system

• US 8,538,448 B2
• Filed: 03/12/2012
• Issued: 09/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2011
• 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: Wieczorek, Philippe, Descombes, Pierre-Yves
• Primary Examiner(s): Trinh, Sonny
• Application Number:
  US13/418,012
• Publication Number:
  US 20130095881A1
• Time in Patent Office: 554 Days
• Field of Search: 455/435.1, 455/435.3, 455/450, 455/452.1, 455/463, 455/464, 455/500, 455/512, 370/328, 370/329, 370/341, 370/395.41, 370/395.4, 370/395.42, 709/224, 709/225
• US Class Current: 455/452.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support

Abstract

A round robin assignment based communication system may include a dynamic subscriber identification module (SIM) provisioning module to obtain and selectively assign a phone number to a device from a predetermined number of devices based on a round robin assignment technique to allow each device to communicate upon assignment of the phone number. A machine-to-machine (M2M) application module may determine priority of the phone number assignment to the devices.

Claims

1. A round robin assignment based communication system comprising:

a dynamic subscriber identification module (SIM) provisioning module, executed by a processor, to obtain and selectively assign a phone number to a device from a predetermined number of devices based on a round robin assignment technique to allow each device to communicate upon assignment of the phone number; and

a machine-to-machine (M2M) application module to determine priority of the phone number assignment to the devices.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the devices communicate based on cellular communication.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the phone number is a routable phone number.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein use of the routable phone number permits incoming and outgoing communication, respectively, to and from the devices.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the phone number is assigned to a selected number of the devices that require communication from a total number of the devices that includes devices that do not require communication based on the round robin assignment technique.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the priority of the phone number assignment is based on business logic related to communications by at least one device.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the priority of the phone number assignment is weighted according to business logic related to communications by at least one device.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the round robin assignment technique is based a priority that is one of randomly determined and weighted according to business logic related to communications by at least one device.

9. A method for round robin assignment based communication, the method comprising:

obtaining and selectively assigning, by a processor, a phone number to a device from a predetermined number of devices based on a round robin assignment technique to allow each device to communicate upon assignment of the phone number; and

determining priority of the phone number assignment to the devices.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the devices communicate based on cellular communication.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the phone number is a routable phone number.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising assigning the phone number to a selected number of the devices that require communication from a total number of the devices that includes devices that do not require communication based on the round robin assignment technique.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising basing the priority of the phone number assignment on business logic related to communications by at least one device.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the priority of the phone number assignment is weighted according to business logic related to communications by at least one device.

15. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing machine readable instructions, that when executed by a computer system, perform a method for database archiving performance benefit determination, the method comprising:

obtaining and selectively assigning, by a processor, a phone number to a device from a predetermined number of devices based on a round robin assignment technique to allow each device to communicate upon assignment of the phone number; and

determining priority of the phone number assignment to the devices.