Facilitation of connectivity and content management in mobile environments

• US 9,503,323 B2
• Filed: 09/07/2012
• Issued: 11/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/07/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.), AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Beattie, James Gordon Jr., Chakraborty, Soumyajit, Huggins, Dave, Nair, Rakhee, Peitzer, Haywood S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Keehn, Richard G
• Application Number:
  US13/606,567
• Publication Number:
  US 20140074995A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,537 Days
• Field of Search: 709/220
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/336 Signal-to-interference ratio [SIR] or carrier-to-interference ratio [CIR]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0816 the condition being an adaptation, e.g. in response to network events
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/083 for increasing network speed
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0888 Throughput
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring
• 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 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/241 taking into account channel quality metrics, e.g. SIR, SNR, CIR, Eb/lo
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/44 in connection with interruption of transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/19 Connection re-establishment

Abstract

Connectivity and/or content management in mobile networks is provided. Information associated with a mobile device of a plurality of mobile devices is determined. In various embodiments, the information can be current or past usage or travel pattern information for the mobile device. The mobile device is configured in association with delivery of content. The configuration is based, at least, on the information associated with the mobile device. The mobile device is configured to request accelerated content delivery if the mobile device is located within a good coverage area, and to request connection re-establishment priority if the mobile device is approaching or located within a poor coverage area or a handoff area.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

determining, by a system including a processor, a behavior of a mobile device of mobile devices;

facilitating first configuring, by the system, of the mobile device to cause the mobile device to initiate a request for delivery of content based, at least, on the behavior of the mobile device; and

facilitating second configuring, by the system, of the mobile device to cause the mobile device to request a priority for re-establishment of a disconnected connection of the mobile device, wherein the request for the priority is transmitted based on power headroom information for the mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the behavior of the mobile device is characterized by mobile device use information, and wherein the power headroom information comprises information indicative of a difference between a defined output power for the mobile device and an estimated uplink transmission power for the mobile device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the facilitating the first configuring comprises facilitating the configuring of the mobile device to request a priority for re-establishment of a disconnected connection of the mobile device based, at least, on a location of the mobile device being within a coverage area being determined to satisfy a defined condition.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the mobile device use information comprises at least one of current usage information of the mobile device, or past usage information of the mobile device.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the mobile device use information comprises at least one of current travel pattern information of the mobile device or past travel pattern information of the mobile device.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the facilitating the first configuring comprises facilitating the first configuring of the mobile device to request a first type of content delivery of types of content delivery based, at least, on a location of the mobile device being within a coverage area satisfying a defined condition, and wherein the first type of content delivery is content delivery at a defined speed.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the defined condition is satisfied based on data being determined to represent a level of signal-to-noise ratio for the coverage area.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the facilitating the first configuring further comprises facilitating the first configuring of the mobile device to request an accelerated content delivery based on the mobile device use information.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

facilitating adjusting, by the system, of a network parameter to modify the coverage area based, at least, on receipt of the request for the priority for the re-establishment of the disconnected connection of the mobile device, and wherein the request for the priority is also transmitted based on a determination that a level of a signal-to-noise ratio for the coverage area is below a defined value.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the facilitating the adjusting comprises facilitating the adjusting of the network parameter to extend the coverage area for a defined number of the mobile devices for a defined amount of time.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the facilitating the adjusting comprises facilitating reducing of a number of connections between network devices in a network with which the mobile device is associated.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the facilitating the adjusting comprises facilitating the adjusting of the network parameter to modify a number of active sessions being handled by network devices of a network with which the mobile device is associated to support a type of traffic received by the mobile device.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the type of traffic comprises at least one of video, audio, a file transfer or voice.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the facilitating the first configuring further comprises facilitating the configuring of the mobile device to request the priority for the re-establishment of the disconnected connection of the mobile device based on the mobile device use information.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

facilitating storage, by the system, of information associated with the behavior of the mobile device, wherein the storage is in the mobile device.

16. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

determining mobile device use information for a first mobile device of mobile devices;

facilitating generation of a configuration of the first mobile device in response to a determination of the mobile device use information and use information for a second mobile device of the mobile devices; and

receiving, from the first mobile device, a request associated with content delivery based, at least, on the configuration of the first mobile device a past signal strength of an area of a coverage area and a prediction that the first mobile device will traverse the area at a future time, wherein the prediction is based on an evaluation of a past pattern of travel of the first mobile device.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the mobile device use information comprises current travel pattern information of the first mobile device.

18. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the request associated with the content delivery comprises a request for the content delivery of a defined speed based, at least, on the mobile device use information and network information representing a condition of a network with which the first mobile device is associated, and wherein the content delivery of the defined speed is an accelerated delivery relative to a speed of the content delivery prior to the request.

19. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

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

determining activity of a first mobile device of mobile devices;

configuring a second mobile device of the mobile devices to request a priority for re-establishment of a disconnected connection of the second mobile device, wherein initiation of the request is based, at least, on the activity of the first one mobile device and power headroom information for the second mobile device; and

configuring the second mobile device to request an accelerated content delivery at a first speed based, at least, on the activity of the first mobile device and a second defined condition of the network with which the second mobile device is associated, wherein the first speed is faster than a second speed, and wherein the second speed is associated with the speed of content delivery prior to the request for the accelerated content delivery of the first speed.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the activity of the first mobile device comprises a past travel pattern of the first mobile device, and wherein the power headroom information comprises information indicative of a difference between a maximum output power for the second mobile device and an estimated uplink transmission power for the second mobile device.