Method to optimize the selection and delivery of a shoulder-tap to a cellular mobile station

• US 8,948,803 B2
• Filed: 02/22/2012
• Issued: 02/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aeris Communications Inc.
• Original Assignee: Aeris Communications Inc.
• Inventors: Kim, Dae Seong, Balasubramaniam, Saraswathi, Brezee, Kirk E., Sim, Byung Hoon, Hosain, Syed Z., Weygandt, Lotus, Garner, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): PHU, SANH D
• Application Number:
  US13/402,392
• Publication Number:
  US 20130217431A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,077 Days
• Field of Search: 455/517, 455/500, 455/503, 455/522, 340/12.5, 705/1, 705/26
• US Class Current: 455/517
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/12 Inter-network notification
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/12 Setup of transport tunnels

Abstract

To select a shoulder-tap method or a set of methods that optimizes the delivery of a shoulder-tap with respect to feasibility, reliability, and cost, in accordance with the present invention. Each shoulder-tap method can be evaluated on its feasibility, reliability and cost. A shoulder-tap method can be selected and used that optimizes reliability and cost with respect to feasibility constraints.

Claims

1. A method for selecting a shoulder-tap approach for delivery to a cellular mobile station comprising:

determining a cellular mobile station profile having cellular mobile station characteristics of at least one of a cellular mobile station state and a radio access technology;

determining one or more shoulder-tap characteristics of a plurality of shoulder-tap approaches wherein the shoulder-tap characteristics of each of plurality of shoulder-tap approach includes at least one of;

IP State, number of characters of data, data alphabet value, numeric data range value, relative reliability value and relative cost value;

comparing the cellular mobile station characteristics of the cellular mobile profile and the one or more shoulder-tap characteristics; and

selecting at least one of the shoulder-tap approaches in relation to a result of the comparing.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting further includes ordering selected shoulder-tap approaches in a prioritized order in relation to a predetermined preference profile having a hierarchy of ordered preferences.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the cellular mobile station profile includes cellular mobile station characteristics of at least the cellular mobile station state and the radio access technology.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting further includes selecting plurality of the shoulder-tap approaches.

5. The method of claim 1, further including delivering at least one of the selected shoulder-tap approaches to the cellular mobile station.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein delivering further includes delivering a plurality of the selected shoulder-tap approaches to the cellular mobile station.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein delivering further includes delivering the plurality of the selected shoulder-tap approaches to the cellular mobile station concurrently.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein delivering further includes delivering the plurality of the selected shoulder-tap approaches to the cellular mobile station serially over time.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein delivering further includes delivering the plurality of the selected shoulder-tap approaches to the cellular mobile station separately in accordance with a priority in relation to the Relative Reliability of a selected shoulder-tap approach.

10. A method for delivering a prioritized shoulder-tap approach to a cellular mobile station comprising:

determining a cellular mobile station profile having cellular mobile station characteristics of a cellular mobile station state and a radio access technology;

determining two or more shoulder-tap characteristics of a two or more shoulder-tap approaches wherein the shoulder-tap characteristics of each of the two or more of shoulder-tap approach includes at least one of;

IP State, number of characters of data, data alphabet value, numeric data range value, relative reliability value and relative cost value;

comparing the cellular mobile station characteristics of the cellular mobile profile and the two or more shoulder-tap characteristics; and

delivering at least one of the compared shoulder-tap approaches to the cellular mobile station.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein comparing further includes ordering the compared shoulder-tap approaches in a prioritized order in relation to a predetermined preference profile having a hierarchy of ordered preferences.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the predetermined preference profile hierarchically ranks Relative Reliability of greatest importance.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein delivering further includes delivering a plurality of the selected shoulder-tap approaches to the cellular mobile station.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein delivering further includes delivering the plurality of shoulder-tap approaches to the cellular mobile station concurrently.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein delivering further includes delivering the plurality of shoulder-tap approaches to the cellular mobile station serially over time.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein delivering further includes delivering the plurality of shoulder-tap approaches to the cellular mobile station separately in accordance with a priority in relation to the Relative Reliability.

17. A method for selecting and delivering one or more shoulder-tap approaches for delivery to a mobile cellular station in a prioritized manner comprising the steps of:

determining a cellular mobile station profile having cellular mobile station characteristics;

determining shoulder-tap characteristics of at least two shoulder-tap approaches;

comparing the at least two cellular mobile station characteristics of the cellular mobile profile and the shoulder-tap characteristics of each of the at least two shoulder-tap approaches in relation to a predetermined preference profile having a hierarchy of prioritized preferences;

selecting shoulder-tap approaches in relation to the step of comparing for feasibility; and

delivering in relation to the prioritized preferences at least one of the selected shoulder-tap approaches to the cellular mobile station.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the predetermined preference profile hierarchically orders Relative Cost of greatest importance.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein delivering further includes delivering a plurality of the selected shoulder-tap approaches to the cellular mobile station.

20. A computer program product stored on a non-transitory computer usable medium, comprising:

computer readable program means for causing a computer to control an execution of an application to perform a method for delivering a prioritized shoulder-tap approach to a cellular mobile station comprising the steps of;

determining a cellular mobile station profile having cellular mobile station characteristics of a cellular mobile station state and a radio access technology;

determining two or more shoulder-tap characteristics of a two or more shoulder-tap approaches wherein the shoulder-tap characteristics of each of the two or more of shoulder-tap approach includes at least one of;

IP State, number of characters of data, data alphabet value, numeric data range value, relative reliability value and relative cost value;

comparing the cellular mobile station characteristics of the cellular mobile profile and the two or more shoulder-tap characteristics; and

delivering at least one of the compared shoulder-tap approaches to the cellular mobile station.