Processing and display of location based messages for mobile devices

• US 9,788,146 B2
• Filed: 12/09/2013
• Issued: 10/10/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.), AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kosseifi, Mario, Austin, Mark, Van De Steeg, Kristopher
• Primary Examiner(s): Navar, Erica
• Application Number:
  US14/100,582
• Publication Number:
  US 20150163623A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,401 Days
• Field of Search: 4554561-457, 4554041, 4554042
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• 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 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services

Abstract

Mechanisms for user application access to cell broadcast messaging in a mobile communication environment are described herein. By way of example, a location-based message such as a cell broadcast message can be received by an operating system of a mobile device, which can generate an instance of the message for a user application registered with the operating system. Upon determining the message to be a location-based message, message data can be converted into a fielded data object which can be utilized by user application of the mobile device. Data, commands, etc., of the CB message can then be implemented in conjunction with application processes or business logic to control device functionality, perform tasks, output data over a user interface, initiate communications, and so forth.

Claims

1. A mobile device, comprising:

a processor; and

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

receiving, from a first access point device, a broadcast message that has been transmitted within a geographic area associated with the mobile device; and

in response to a serialization encoding extracted from the broadcast message being determined to satisfy a defined condition representing that the serialization encoding corresponds to a stored serialization encoding of a class of location-based broadcast messages comprising respective information associated with defined geographical regions from which the location-based broadcast messages have been broadcasted, parsing at least a subset of content of the broadcast message into a fielded data object comprising first congestion data representing a first latency associated with the first access point device and second congestion data representing a second latency associated with a second access point device, and

in response to the first congestion data and the second congestion data being determined, via an application corresponding to the executable instructions, to satisfy a defined condition with respect to the second latency being lower than the first latency, initiating a communication with the second access point device.

2. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

facilitating execution of an application programming interface of the mobile device in response to the notifying the application of the fielded data object.

3. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

reading a command included in at least the subset of content of the broadcast message; and

initiating execution of a component of the mobile device in response to the reading of the command.

4. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the application has been installed after receipt of program data representing the application.

5. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the broadcast message comprises encoding information indicating the broadcast message is a cell-broadcast message.

6. The mobile device of claim 5, wherein the cell-broadcast message is received from a network device that broadcast the cell-broadcast message to mobile devices comprising the mobile device.

7. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the receiving comprises receiving the broadcast message via a radio interface layer defined by a communication protocol corresponding to the mobile device.

8. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the notifying comprises employing a function of an operating system of the mobile device for facilitation of an access, by the application, of the fielded data object.

9. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein at least the subset of content comprises operating data related to a mobile service-related condition affecting a network device related to the mobile device.

10. The mobile device of claim 9, wherein the network device is a first network device, and wherein the mobile service-related condition comprises a loading metric, a congestion metric, a utilization metric, a throughput metric, or a latency metric affecting the network device or a second network device related to the geographic area.

11. The mobile device of claim 10, wherein at least the subset of content comprises an operating instruction for the mobile device related to the mobile service-related condition.

12. The mobile device of claim 11, wherein the operating instruction comprises a recommendation for the mobile device to register with the second access point device.

13. The mobile device of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining, based on the fielded data object, whether to register with the second access point device.

14. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the application is programmable via an input received by the mobile device for selective performance, based on the fielded data object, of an operation of the operations.

15. A method, comprising:

obtaining, by a system comprising a processor, notification data representing that a message has been wirelessly received by the system; and

in response to a serialization encoding of the message being determined to satisfy a defined similarity to a stored serialization encoding representing a class of location-based broadcast messages comprising information associated with respective locations from which the location-based broadcast messages have been broadcasted,

generating, by the system using the message, a data object comprising congestion information for respective network devices, and

in response to the congestion information being determined to satisfy a defined condition representing a first latency associated with a first network device of the respective network devices is greater than a second latency associated with the second network device of the respective network devices,

initiating, by the system, a transfer of a communication of the system from a first access point device associated with the first network device to a second access point device associated with the second network device.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

assigning, by the system, a subset of information of the data object as a public class that is accessible to a public class application of the system, wherein the initiating comprises initiating the transfer via the public class application.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the initiating comprises initiating the transfer of the communication of the system utilizing a public class of an application programming interface.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

limiting, by the system, access to the data object based on a result of a verification of a permission for the access.

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 that a message has been received by the system within a defined region corresponding to the system; and

in response to a serialization encoding of the message being determined to correspond to a type of location-based broadcast message comprising information associated with a defined geographical region from which the location-based broadcast message has been broadcasted, transforming a subset of the message into a data object, and

in response to determining, via an application of the system, that network information that has been included within the data object satisfies a defined condition with respect to a first latency associated with a first network device being greater than a second latency associated with a second network device, initiating a transfer of a communication of the system from a first access point device associated with the first network device to a second access point device associated with the second network device.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein a class of applications of the system comprising the application is associated with a user identity, and wherein the operations further comprise:

based on an authentication of the user identity, enabling a permission-based access to the data object for the class of applications.