Method, system, user equipment and program for dynamically selecting proxies for communication with servers using known paths

• US 9,003,058 B2
• Filed: 10/25/2011
• Issued: 04/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Telcordia Technologies Incorporated (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson)
• Original Assignee: Telcordia Technologies Incorporated (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson)
• Inventors: Chung, Chit, Jain, Ashish, Egan, Dennis, Wullert, John R. II, Shim, Hyong Sop
• Primary Examiner(s): SERRAO, RANODHI N
• Application Number:
  US13/280,726
• Publication Number:
  US 20120284328A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,260 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 709/238
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/566 Grouping or aggregating service requests, e.g. for unified processing

Abstract

Method, User equipment, system and program for limiting an amount of information transmitted between a plurality of user equipments and a server. The method comprising establishing communication links between a plurality of user equipments based upon a proximity of the plurality of user equipments, determining a tactical common mission group selected from the linked plurality of user equipments using a mission profile stored in each of the plurality of user equipments; and selecting a proxy for the tactical common mission group. The proxy communicates with a server on behalf of the tactical common mission group. A proxy is selected based upon a ranking.

Claims

1. A user equipment used for wireless communication comprising:

a wireless transceiver for initially transmitting a user equipment discovery message, receiving messages from each discovered user equipment, the messages including mission identifier and a ranking corresponding to each discovered user equipment and transmitting a message to each discovered user equipment containing a mission identifier and a ranking corresponding to the user equipment;

a storage device configured to store at least one mission profile including the mission identifier and a preset ranking criterion corresponding to the user equipment;

a processor configured to when executing a program stored in the storage device provide

a group controller for establishing a communication link between each discovered user equipment and the user equipment, the communication link is based a proximity of user equipment; and

a mission controller for determining whether to create or join a tactical common mission group based upon the mission identifier in the at least one mission profile stored in the storage device of the user equipment and the mission identifiers contained in the messages received by the user equipment from the coupled user equipment, computing mission vectors and a ranking based upon the preset ranking criterion, and determining whether the user equipment is a proxy for the tactical common mission group for subsequent communication with a server on behalf of the communication mission group based upon the computed ranking and rankings in the messages received from each discovered user equipment.

2. The user equipment used for wireless communication of claim 1, wherein the wireless transceiver transmits mission information to the server when the user equipment is the proxy.

3. The user equipment used for wireless communication of claim 1, wherein the wireless transceiver ceases transmission of mission information to the server when the user equipment is not determined to be the proxy.

4. The user equipment used for wireless communication of claim 3, wherein when the user equipment becomes unlinked from the discovered user equipment, the wireless transceiver restarts the transmission of the mission information to the server.

5. The user equipment used for wireless communication of claim 1, wherein the wireless transceiver is configured with multiple access network protocols including a short range access protocol and a wifi protocol.

6. The user equipment used for wireless communication of claim 5, wherein the short range access protocol is used for user equipment discovery.