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

• US 9,392,517 B2
• Filed: 04/14/2015
• Issued: 07/12/2016
• 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:
  US14/686,472
• Publication Number:
  US 20150223131A1
• Time in Patent Office: 455 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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:

determining, by a device comprising a processor, whether to transmit information to a network device of a network with which the device is associated to cause the device to be transferred from a first wireless communication system to a second wireless communication system; and

responsive to a result of the determining, reducing, by the device, power emitted from the device to a power level at which a reduced power emitted from the device is determined to satisfy a first 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, and wherein the region is determined based on a signal value of the device of signal values using a data structure that maps the regions of the body to the signal values.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting, by the device, that the location of the device is within a defined proximity to an edge device 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, further comprising:

determining, by the device, whether an application being executed by the device is designated as an application of a first type, and determining, by the device, whether a characteristic of the network satisfies a second 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 application of the first type.

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; 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 characteristic of the network satisfies the second condition comprises determining that the characteristic of the network satisfies the second condition, and further comprising:

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

transmitting, by the device to the network device, the indicator information indicating that the power emitted from the device satisfies the first condition, wherein the transmitting is in response to the determining to transmit the information to cause the 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 device to be transferred from the first wireless communication system to the second wireless communication system based on determining that the characteristic of the network fails to satisfy the second 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 condition, wherein the transmitting is in response to the determining to transmit the information to cause the 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. The method of claim 1, 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 device to be transferred as to be facilitated by the network device from the first wireless communication system to the second wireless communication system.

15. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising;

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

performing selective bundling of information to be transmitted from the system;

determining a region of regions of a body that is using the system based on a signal value, of possible signal values, associated with the system comprising determining the region from a data structure that maps the possible signal values to the regions of the body; and

responsive to the selective bundling, reducing a power emitted by the system, resulting in a reduced power less than the power, based on detecting a location of the system relative to the region of the body determined to be using the system.

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

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

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

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

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the defined characteristic of the network comprises information indicative of whether an uplink from the system satisfies a second defined condition.

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

after a determination of whether to transmit information to a network device of a network, adjusting a power emitted from the system to an adjusted power determined to satisfy a first condition, wherein the adjusting is based on a location of the system, carried on a body of a user, relative to a region of the body of the user associated with an identity determined to have interacted with the system, and wherein the region of the body is determined to have interacted with the system based on a signal value of the system and using a data structure that maps signal values of the system, comprising the signal value, to regions of the body, comprising the region; and

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

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

determining to forego transmission of information to cause the system to be transferred from a first wireless communication system to a second wireless communication system based on determining that the application being executed is designated as a type of application having a lower priority than a priority of another type of application.