User profile-based wireless device system level management

• US 9,825,803 B2
• Filed: 11/14/2016
• Issued: 11/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC (Allied Inventors Management, LLC), Regents of the University of California (University of California)
• Original Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC (Allied Inventors Management, LLC)
• Inventors: Potkonjak, Miodrag
• Primary Examiner(s): JACOBS, LASHONDA T
• Application Number:
  US15/350,721
• Publication Number:
  US 20170063596A1
• Time in Patent Office: 372 Days
• Field of Search: 709203, 709217, 709219, 709220, 709223, 709224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5011 the resources being hardware resources other than CPUs, Servers and Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/02 Standardisation; Integration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• 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 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/24 Negotiating SLA [Service Level Agreement]; Negotiating QoS [Quality of Service]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/00 Local resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

Techniques for user profile-based system level management (SLM) and creation of system level agreements of a wireless device are generally disclosed. In some examples, a predictor may be provided to predict a future task to be performed by a wireless device, including resource requirements, based at least in part on a profile of a user and at least one of a profile of a communication partner of the user, an operational recommendation, a performance model or a current state. An optimizer/analyzer may be provided to generate a plurality of instructions to configure the wireless device, based at least in part on the predicted future task and resource requirement, and a quality of service requirement of the wireless device, in anticipation of having to perform the predicted task. In various examples, the predictor and the optimizer/analyzer may form a local or a remotely disposed system level manager.

Claims

1. A method for managing a wireless device in a wireless environment, the method comprising:

predicting, based at least in part on a first profile associated with the wireless device and one or more second profiles associated respectively with one or more communication partners of the wireless device, a future task by the wireless device and a resource requirement associated with the future task; and

generating a set of instructions to configure the wireless device, based at least in part on the predicted future task, the predicted resource requirement associated with the predicted future task, and a quality of service requirement of the wireless device to perform in the wireless environment.

2. The method of claim 1,

wherein the first profile comprises information about voice communications via the wireless device,

wherein the one or more communication partners are network service providers, and

wherein the one or more second profiles comprise information about the voice communications via the wireless device over one or more networks serviced by the one or more communication partners.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

accessing, by the wireless device based on network conditions, a wireless network serviced by one of the network service providers,

wherein the wireless network serviced by the one of the network service providers includes cellular and Wi-Fi networks, and

wherein the network conditions include one or more of latency, throughput, or resolution.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first profile comprises information about movie watching via the wireless device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first profile comprises information about song listening via the wireless device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the resource requirement comprises a transmit/receive resource requirement.

7. A wireless device, comprising:

a processor;

a predictor configured to be operated by the processor to predict, based at least in part on a first profile associated with the wireless device and one or more second profiles associated respectively with one or more communication partners of the wireless device, a future task by the wireless device and a resource requirement associated with the future task; and

an optimizer/analyzer operatively coupled to the predictor and configured to be operated by the processor to generate a set of instructions to configure the wireless device, based at least in part on the predicted future task, the predicted resource requirement associated with the predicted future task, and a quality of service requirement of the wireless device to perform in a wireless environment.

8. The wireless device of claim 7,

wherein the first profile comprises information about voice communications via the wireless device,

wherein the one or more communication partners are network service providers, and

wherein the one or more second profiles comprise information about the voice communications via the wireless device over one or more networks serviced by the one or more communication partners.

9. The wireless device of claim 8, further comprising:

a network interface to access, by the wireless device based on network conditions, a wireless network serviced by one of the network service providers,

wherein the wireless network serviced by the one of the network service providers includes cellular and Wi-Fi networks, and

wherein the network conditions include one or more of latency, throughput, or resolution.

10. The wireless device of claim 7, wherein the first profile comprises information about movie watching via the wireless device.

11. The wireless device of claim 7, wherein the first profile comprises information about song listening via the wireless device.

12. The wireless device of claim 7, wherein at least one of the predictor and the optimizer/analyzer is integrated with an operating system of the wireless device.

13. The wireless device of claim 7, wherein the predictor and the optimizer/analyzer form a system level manager configured to manage a plurality of wireless devices that includes the wireless device.

14. The wireless device of claim 7,

wherein the prediction of the future task by the wireless device is based at least in part on a performance model of the wireless device in terms of one or more of a signal-to-noise ratio, a communication reception rate, or a communication interference.

15. A method for managing a wireless device in a wireless environment, the method comprising:

predicting, based at least in part on a first profile associated with the wireless device and one or more second profiles associated respectively with one or more communication partners of the wireless device, a future resource requirement of the wireless device; and

generating a set of instructions to configure the wireless device, based at least in part on the predicted future resource requirement and a quality of service requirement of the wireless device to perform in the wireless environment.

16. The method of claim 15,

wherein the first profile comprises information about voice communications via the wireless device,

wherein the one or more communication partners are network service providers, and

wherein the one or more second profiles comprise information about the voice communications via the wireless device over one or more networks serviced by the one or more communication partners.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

accessing, by the wireless device based on network conditions, a wireless network serviced by one of the network service providers,

wherein the wireless network serviced by the one of the network service providers includes cellular and Wi-Fi networks, and

wherein the network conditions include one or more of latency, throughput, or resolution.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the first profile comprises information about movie watching via the wireless device.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein the first profile comprises information about song listening via the wireless device.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein the resource requirement comprises a transmit/receive resource requirement.