Facilitation of adaptive traffic flow management by a power-limited mobile device

• US 9,031,559 B2
• Filed: 11/20/2012
• Issued: 05/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Brisebois, Arthur Richard, Mountford, Richard J., Peitzer, Haywood
• Primary Examiner(s): Hua, Quan M
• Application Number:
  US13/682,325
• Publication Number:
  US 20140141769A1
• Time in Patent Office: 903 Days
• US Class Current: 455/435.3
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0085 Hand-off measurements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/14 Reselecting a network or an air interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/24 Reselection being triggered by specific parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/283 Power depending on the position of the mobile
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/21 in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/542 using measured or perceived quality
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/56 based on priority criteria
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

Facilitation of adaptive traffic flow management by a power-limited device during uplink-limited conditions is provided. A method can include: detecting that power emitted from the device satisfies a first defined condition; evaluating a defined characteristic of a network with which the device is associated and an application being executed by the device, wherein the evaluating is in response to the detecting; and determining whether to transmit information to the network to cause the device to be transferred by the network, wherein transferring is from a first wireless communication system to a second wireless communication system, and wherein the determining is performed based on the evaluating. In various embodiments, the first wireless communication system can be a long-term evolution system and the second wireless communication system can be a universal mobile telecommunications system.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

detecting, by a device comprising a processor, that power emitted from the device satisfies a first defined condition;

evaluating, by the device, a defined characteristic of a network with which the device is associated and an application being executed by the device, wherein the evaluating is in response to the detecting;

based on the evaluating, determining, by the device, whether to transmit information to a network device of the network to cause the device to be transferred by the network device from a first wireless communication system to a second wireless communication system; and

reducing, by the device, the power emitted from the device to a power level at which a reduced power emitted from the device is determined to satisfy the first defined condition, wherein the reducing is based on a location of the device determined relative to a region of regions of a body of a user identity determined to be associated with the device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting that the location of the device is within a defined proximity to an edge associated with a cell device with which the device is associated.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, by the device, the location of the device relative to the region of the regions of the body.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the evaluating further comprises:

determining whether the application being executed is designated as a non-real-time application, and wherein the evaluating includes determining whether the defined characteristic of the network satisfies a second defined condition.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the determining whether to transmit the information to cause the device to be transferred from the first wireless communication system to the second wireless communication system comprises:

determining not to transmit the information to cause the device to be transferred from the first wireless communication system to the second wireless communication system based on the application being executed being determined to be designated as the non-real-time application.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

selectively bundling, by the device, the information as bundled information to be transmitted by the device, based on the determining not to transmit the information to cause the mobile device to be transferred from the first wireless communication system to the second wireless communication system; and

updating, by the device, an operation to an idle mode operation based on the selectively bundling.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the determining whether the defined characteristic of the network satisfies the second defined condition includes determining that the defined characteristic of the network satisfies the second defined condition, and further comprising:

changing, by the device, the operation to an active mode operation based on the defined characteristic of the network being determined to satisfy the second defined condition; and

transmitting, by the device, the bundled information to the network.

8. The method of claim 4, wherein the determining whether to transmit the information to cause the device to be transferred from the first wireless communication system to the second wireless communication system comprises:

determining to transmit the information to cause the mobile device to be transferred from the first wireless communication system to the second wireless communication system based on determining that the application being executed is a real-time application.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the information comprises indicator information indicating that the power emitted from the device satisfies the first defined condition, and further comprising:

transmitting, by the device, to the network, the indicator information indicating that the power emitted from the device satisfies the first defined condition, wherein the transmitting is in response to the determining to transmit the information to cause the mobile device to be transferred from the first wireless communication system to the second wireless communication system.

10. The method of claim 4, wherein the determining whether to transmit the information to cause the device to be transferred from the first wireless communication system to the second wireless communication system comprises:

determining to transmit the information to cause the mobile device to be transferred from the first wireless communication system to the second wireless communication system based on determining that the defined characteristic of the network fails to satisfy the second defined condition.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

transmitting, by the device, to the network, indicator information indicating that the power emitted from the device is less than the first defined condition, wherein the transmitting is in response to the determining to transmit the information to cause the mobile device to be transferred from the first wireless communication system to the second wireless communication system.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the second wireless communication system communicates according to a universal mobile telecommunications system protocol.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the first wireless communication system communicates according to a long term evolution system protocol.

14. A system, comprising:

a memory to store executable instructions; and

a processor, coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of executable instructions to perform operations, comprising;

evaluating whether a defined characteristic of a network with which the system is associated and a defined characteristic of an application executed by the system satisfies a first defined condition;

determining to forego performing an action to cause the system to be transferred from a first wireless communication system to a second wireless communication system based on the defined characteristic of the network and the defined characteristic of the application being determined to satisfy the first defined condition;

performing selective bundling of information to be transmitted from the system, wherein the performing is based on the determining;

reducing a power emitted from the system, resulting in a reduced power, based on detecting a location of the system relative to a region of a body using the system; and

determining that the reduced power emitted from the system satisfies a second defined condition, wherein the evaluating is performed based on the determining that the reduced power emitted from the system has been reduced to a level that satisfies the second defined condition.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the operations further comprise:

detecting the location of the system relative to the region of the body using of the system.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the operations further comprise:

changing a mode of operation of the system to idle mode in response to the performing the selective bundling.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the defined characteristic of the network comprises information indicative of whether an uplink from the system meets a third defined condition.

18. A computer-readable storage device storing executable instructions that, in response to execution, cause a system comprising a processor to perform operations, comprising:

reducing a power emitted from the system to a reduced power determined to satisfy a first defined condition, wherein the reducing is based on a location of the system relative to a region of a body;

evaluating a defined characteristic of a set of network devices of a network with which the system is associated and an application being executed by the system; and

determining whether to transmit information to the set of network devices to cause the system to be transferred by a network device of the set of network devices from a first wireless communication system to a second wireless communication system, wherein the determining is performed based on the evaluating.

19. The computer-readable storage device of claim 18, wherein the evaluating further comprises:

determining to forego transmission of the information to cause the system to be transferred from the first wireless communication system to the second wireless communication system based on determining that the application being executed is designated as a non-real-time application.

20. The computer-readable storage device of claim 18, wherein the determining comprises:

determining to transmit the information to cause the system to be transferred from the first wireless communication system to the second wireless communication system based on determining that the application being executed is a real-time application.