Motion-based kinetic fingerprint radio selection

• US 9,854,509 B2
• Filed: 07/13/2015
• Issued: 12/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2010
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Agosta, Steve D
• Application Number:
  US14/797,255
• Publication Number:
  US 20150319680A1
• Time in Patent Office: 897 Days
• Field of Search: 455 412, 455 413, 4553432-3435, 4554141, 455418, 4554321, 455434, 4554351, 455436-444, 4554561-457, 4555501, 4555521, 4555531, 455574, 3703102, 370311, 370328, 370331-334, 370338
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0254 detecting a user operation or a tactile contact or a motion of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/28 Discontinuous transmission [DTX]; Discontinuous reception [DRX]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

Motion adaptive wireless user equipment (UE) in a wireless network are provided. Kinetic information is leveraged to select a preferred radio (or radio technology) or adapt a reselection scanning interval. This can serve to improve the performance of a UE by reducing the amount of power expended in maintaining an adequate level of connectedness to the wireless network components in the face of UE movement. In a further aspect, kinetic power generators can be employed as a source of UE transit data. Kinetic fingerprints can be compared to UE transit data, e.g., that acquired from a kinetic generator of the UE, to facilitate selection of preferred radios and reselection intervals. In this aspect, radio selection schema and reselection scanning schema can effectively be selected with little to no drain on a UE power source.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory that stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising;

receiving, from a kinetic sensor of a user equipment, data related to a movement of the user equipment,

determining, based on the data related to the movement of the user equipment, that the movement of the user equipment is associated with a plurality of kinetic changes,

comparing the plurality of kinetic changes associated with the movement of the user equipment to a plurality of kinetic fingerprints, wherein each of the plurality of kinetic fingerprints corresponds to a respective pattern of kinetic changes associated with travel via one of a plurality of modes of transit,

determining a correlation between the movement of the user equipment and a kinetic fingerprint of the plurality of kinetic fingerprints, wherein determining the correlation is based on determining a match between at least a portion of the plurality of kinetic changes associated with the movement of the user equipment and the respective pattern of kinetic changes corresponding to the kinetic fingerprint, and wherein the correlation indicates that the movement of the user equipment is associated with travel via a mode of transit of the plurality of modes of transit that is associated with the respective pattern of kinetic changes corresponding to the kinetic fingerprint,

determining, based on the correlation between the movement of the user equipment and the kinetic fingerprint indicating that the movement of the user equipment is associated with travel via the mode of transit, a radio technology of the user equipment to select to effect communication associated with the user equipment, and

determining a reselection scanning schedule for the user equipment based on the correlation between the movement of the user equipment and the kinetic fingerprint indicating that the movement of the user equipment is associated with travel via the mode of transit.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein determining the radio technology of the user equipment to select to effect communication associated with the user equipment comprises determining a combination of radio technologies to select to effect communication associated with the user equipment.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise performing a preferential enablement of the radio technology of the user equipment, wherein the radio technology is one of a plurality of radio technologies of the user equipment.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise performing a preferential disablement of at least one radio technology of a plurality of radio technologies of the user equipment based on the radio technology of the user equipment determined for selection to effect communication associated with the user equipment, the plurality of radio technologies of the user equipment comprising the radio technology of the user equipment.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the mode of transit comprises a vehicle.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-readable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a system, cause the system to perform operations comprising:

receiving, from a kinetic sensor of a user equipment, data related to a movement of the user equipment;

determining, based on the data related to the movement of the user equipment, that the movement of the user equipment is associated with a plurality of kinetic changes;

comparing the plurality of kinetic changes associated with the movement of the user equipment to a plurality of kinetic fingerprints, wherein each of the plurality of kinetic fingerprints corresponds to a respective pattern of kinetic changes associated with travel via one of a plurality of modes of transit;

determining a correlation between the movement of the user equipment and a kinetic fingerprint of the plurality of kinetic fingerprints, wherein determining the correlation is based on determining a match between at least a portion of the plurality of kinetic changes associated with the movement of the user equipment and the respective pattern of kinetic changes corresponding to the kinetic fingerprint, and wherein the correlation indicates that the movement of the user equipment is associated with travel via a mode of transit of the plurality of modes of transit that is associated with the respective pattern of kinetic changes corresponding to the kinetic fingerprint;

determining, based on the correlation between the movement of the user equipment and the kinetic fingerprint indicating that the movement of the user equipment is associated with travel via the mode of transit, a radio technology of the user equipment to select to effect communication associated with the user equipment; and

determining a reselection scanning schedule for the user equipment based on the correlation between the movement of the user equipment and the kinetic fingerprint indicating that the movement of the user equipment is associated with travel via the mode of transit.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the mode of transit comprises a vehicle.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein determining the radio technology of the user equipment to select to effect communication associated with the user equipment comprises determining a combination of radio technologies to select to effect communication associated with the user equipment.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the operations further comprise performing a preferential enablement of the radio technology of the user equipment, wherein the radio technology is one of a plurality of radio technologies of the user equipment.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the operations further comprise performing a preferential disablement of at least one radio of a plurality of radios of the user equipment based on the radio technology of the user equipment determined for selection to effect communication associated with the user equipment, the plurality of radios of the user equipment comprising the radio technology of the user equipment.

11. A method comprising:

receiving, by a system comprising a processor from a kinetic sensor of a user equipment, data related to movement of the user equipment;

determining, by the system, based on the data related to the movement of the user equipment, that the movement of the user equipment is associated with a plurality of kinetic changes;

comparing, by the system, the plurality of kinetic changes associated with the movement of the user equipment to a plurality of kinetic fingerprints, wherein each of the plurality of kinetic fingerprints corresponds to a respective pattern of kinetic changes associated with travel via one of a plurality of modes of transit;

determining, by the system, a correlation between the movement of the user equipment and a kinetic fingerprint of the plurality of kinetic fingerprints, wherein determining the correlation is based on determining a match between at least a portion of the plurality of kinetic changes associated with the movement of the user equipment and the respective pattern of kinetic changes corresponding to the kinetic fingerprint, and wherein the correlation indicates that the movement of the user equipment is associated with travel via a mode of transit of the plurality of modes of transit that is associated with the respective pattern of kinetic changes corresponding to the kinetic fingerprint;

determining, by the system, based on the correlation between the movement of the user equipment and the kinetic fingerprint indicating that the movement of the user equipment is associated with travel via the mode of transit, a radio technology of the user equipment to select to effect communication associated with the user equipment; and

determining, by the system, a reselection scanning schedule for the user equipment based on the correlation between the movement of the user equipment and the kinetic fingerprint indicating that the movement of the user equipment is associated with travel via the mode of transit.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising performing a preferential disablement of at least one radio technology of a plurality of radio technologies of the user equipment based on the radio technology of the user equipment determined for selection to effect communication associated with the user equipment, the plurality of radio technologies of the user equipment comprising the radio technology of the user equipment.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the mode of transit comprises a vehicle.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein determining the radio technology of the user equipment to select to effect communication associated with the user equipment comprises determining a combination of radio technologies to select to effect communication associated with the user equipment.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising performing a preferential enablement of the radio technology of the user equipment, wherein the radio technology is one of a plurality of radio technologies of the user equipment.