User profile-based wireless device system level management

• US 8,667,109 B2
• Filed: 04/30/2009
• Issued: 03/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC (Allied Inventors Management, LLC), Regents of the University of California (University of California)
• Original Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC (Allied Inventors Management, LLC)
• Inventors: Potkonjak, Miodrag
• Primary Examiner(s): JACOBS, LASHONDA T
• Application Number:
  US12/433,700
• Publication Number:
  US 20100278119A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,769 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/217, 709/219, 709/220, 709/223, 709/224
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5011 the resources being hardware resources other than CPUs, Servers and Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/02 Standardisation; Integration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• 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 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/24 Negotiating SLA [Service Level Agreement]; Negotiating QoS [Quality of Service]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/00 Local resource management
• 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 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

Techniques for user profile-based system level management (SLM) and creation of system level agreements of a wireless device are generally disclosed. In some examples, a predictor may be provided to predict a future task to be performed by a wireless device, including resource requirements, based at least in part on a profile of a user and at least one of a profile of a communication partner the user, an operational recommendation, a performance model or a current state. An optimizer/analyzer may be provided to generate a plurality of instructions to configure the wireless device, based at least in part on the predicted future task and resource requirement, and a quality of service requirement of the wireless device, in anticipation of having to perform the predicted task. In various examples, the predictor and the optimizer/analyzer may form a local or a remotely disposed system level manager.

Claims

1. A method for managing a wireless device based at least in part on a profile of a user of the wireless device comprising:

receiving by a predictor operated by a computing device, the profile of the user, a profile of a communication partner of the user, an operational recommendation of the wireless device, a performance model of the wireless device, and a current state of the wireless device, wherein the current state of the wireless device comprises a current energy consumption state of the wireless device;

predicting by the predictor a future task to be performed by the wireless device, and predicting a resource requirement for performing the future task, based at least in part on the user profile, the communication partner profile, the operational recommendation of the wireless device, the performance model of the wireless device, and the current energy consumption state of the wireless device; and

generating by an optimizer/analyzer a set of instructions to configure the wireless device, based at least in part on the predicted future task and the resource requirement for performing the future task, and a quality of service requirement of the wireless device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the user profile comprises information about the user'"'"'s emailing, voice calling, instant messaging, movie watching, or song listening behavior.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication partner profile comprises information about the communication partner'"'"'s emailing, voice calling, instant messaging, movie watching, or song listening behavior.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the operational recommendation of the wireless device, includes receiving a display resolution recommendation, a communication modulation recommendation, a communication packet size recommendation, or an error correction code recommendation.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein receiving the performance model of the wireless device includes receiving a signal-to-noise ratio model, a device temperature model, a communication reception rate model or a communication interference model.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the current state of the wireless device includes receiving information about a current task, or a current temperature.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the resource requirement for performing the predicted future task comprises at least one of a processor cycle requirement, a caching resource requirement, and a transmit/receive resource requirement.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising filtering by an information filter a communication partner'"'"'s profile information base at least in part on the communication partner'"'"'s privacy and/or security attributes to generate the communication partner'"'"'s profile.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising organizing by an information organizer the communication partner'"'"'s profile information based at least in part on how recent the behavior information was recorded, prior to the filtering.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

predicting by the predictor another future task to be performed by the wireless device, including resource requirement associated with the another future task, based at least in part on the user profile, the communication partner profile, the operational recommendation of the wireless device, the performance model of the wireless device, and the current state of the wireless device;

generating by the optimizer/analyzer an additional set of instructions to configure the wireless device for the another future task, based at least in part on the another predicted future task and the resource requirement associated with the another future task, and the quality of service requirement of the wireless device; and

generating by the optimizer/analyzer an optimal set of instructions for both tasks based at least in part on the respectively generated sets of instructions for the tasks.

11. An apparatus for managing a wireless device based at least in part on a profile of a user of the wireless device, the apparatus comprising:

a processor;

a predictor configured to be operated by the processor to predict a future task to be performed by the wireless device based at least in part on the profile, a profile of a communication partner of the user, an operational recommendation of the wireless device, a performance model of the wireless device, and a current state of the wireless device,

wherein the current state of the wireless device comprises a current energy consumption state of the wireless device,

wherein the predictor is further configured to be operated by the processor to predict a resource requirement for performing the future task, and

wherein the performance model of the wireless device comprises a device temperature model; and

an optimizer/analyzer operatively coupled to the predictor and configured to be operated by the processor to generate a plurality of instructions to configure the wireless device, based at least in part on the predicted future task and the resource requirement for performing the future task, and a quality of service requirement of the wireless device.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein

the user profile comprises information about the user'"'"'s emailing, voice calling, instant messaging, movie watching, or song listening behavior;

and

the communication partner profile comprises information about the communication partner'"'"'s emailing, voice calling, instant messaging, movie watching, or song listening behavior.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the resource requirement for performing the predicted future task comprises at least one of a processor cycle requirement, a caching resource requirement, or a transmit/receive resource requirement.

14. The apparatus of claim 11, further comprising an information filter configured to filter a user'"'"'s profile information base at least in part on the user'"'"'s privacy and security attributes prior to providing the user'"'"'s profile as a communication partner profile to another user.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, further comprising an information organizer configured to organize the user profile information based at least in part on how recent the behavior information was recorded, prior to filtering by the information filter.

16. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein

the predictor is further configured to predict another future task to be performed by the wireless device, including a resource requirement associated with the another future task, based at least in part on the user profile, the communication partner profile, the operational recommendation of the wireless device, the performance model of the wireless device, and the current state of the wireless device;

and

the optimizer/analyzer is further configured to generate additional sets of instructions to configure the wireless device for the another future task, based at least in part on the another predicted future task and the resource requirement associated with the another future task, and the quality of service requirement of the wireless device;

wherein the optimizer/analyzer is further configured to generate an optimal set of instructions for both tasks based at least in part on the respectively generated sets of instructions for the tasks.

17. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the apparatus and the wireless device are one of the same device, and at least one of the predictor or the optimizer/analyzer is integrated with an operating system of the wireless device.

18. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the apparatus is configured to be remotely disposed from, and coupled to the wireless device via a network, and the predictor and optimizer/analyzer forms a system level manager configured to manage a plurality of wireless devices.

26. The apparatus of claim 11,

wherein the operational recommendation comprises a display resolution recommendation, a communication modulation recommendation, a communication packet size recommendation, or an error correction code recommendation;

wherein the performance model comprises a signal-to-noise ratio model, a communication reception rate model, or a communication interference model; and

wherein the current state of the wireless device comprises information about a current task or a current temperature of the wireless device.

19. An article of manufacture comprising:

a computer readable storage medium; and

a plurality of programming instructions stored in the computer readable storage medium, wherein the programming instructions are configured to program a processor of an apparatus, and wherein when the programming instructions are executed by the processor, the programming instructions enable the apparatus to;

predict a future task to be performed by a wireless device, and predict a resource requirement for performing the future task, based at least in part on a profile of a user of the wireless device, a profile of a communication partner of the user, an operational recommendation of the wireless device, a performance model of the wireless device, and a current state of the wireless device, wherein the operational recommendation of the wireless device comprises a display resolution recommendation; and

generate a plurality of instructions to configure the wireless device, based at least in part on the predicted future task and the resource requirement for performing the future task, and a quality of service requirement of the wireless device.

20. The article of claim 19, wherein when executed, the programming instructions are further configured to enable the apparatus to receive the user profile, and the communication partner profile.

21. The article of claim 19, wherein

the user profile comprises information about the user'"'"'s emailing, voice calling, instant messaging, movie watching, or song listening behavior;

and

the communication partner profile comprises information about the communication partner'"'"'s emailing, voice calling, instant messaging, movie watching, or song listening behavior.

22. The article of claim 19, wherein the resource requirement for performing the predicted future task comprises at least one of a processor cycle requirement, a caching resource requirement, or a transmit/receive resource requirement.

23. The article of claim 19, wherein when executed, the programming instructions enable the apparatus to filter a user profile information base at least in part on the user'"'"'s privacy and security attributes before provide the user'"'"'s profile as a communication partner profile to another user.

24. The article of claim 23, wherein when executed, the programming instructions enable the apparatus to organize the user'"'"'s profile information based at least in part on how recent the behavior information was recorded, prior to the filtering.

25. The article of claim 19, wherein when executed, the programming instructions enable the apparatus to:

predict another future task to be performed by the wireless device, including a resource requirement associated with the another future task, based at least in part on the user profile, the communication partner profile, the operational recommendation of the wireless device, the performance model of the wireless device, and the current state of the wireless device;

generate an additional set of instructions to configure the wireless device for the another future task, based at least in part on the another predicted future task and the resource requirement associated with the another future task, and the quality of service requirement of the wireless device; and

generate an optimal set of instructions for both tasks based at least in part on the respectively generated sets of instructions for the tasks.

27. The article of claim 19,

wherein the operational recommendation comprises a communication modulation recommendation, a communication packet size recommendation, or an error correction code recommendation;

wherein the performance model comprises a signal-to-noise ratio model, a device temperature model, a communication reception rate model, or a communication interference model; and

wherein the current state of the wireless device comprises information about a current task, a current temperature, or a current energy consumption state of the wireless device.