Network backhaul access

• US 9,924,427 B2
• Filed: 07/07/2016
• Issued: 03/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oceus Networks Inc.
• Original Assignee: Oceus Networks Inc.
• Inventors: Graffagnino, Vincent Charles, Green, John
• Primary Examiner(s): NG, CHRISTINE Y
• Application Number:
  US15/204,810
• Publication Number:
  US 20180014234A1
• Time in Patent Office: 621 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/02 Arrangements for optimising operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/08 Reselecting an access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/14 Reselecting a network or an air interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/36 for reassigning the resources associated with the released connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/085 Access point devices with remote components

Abstract

A communication system can provide an independent mobile cellular network to devices within a covered area. In addition, the system can determine whether user equipment within a covered area of the communication system are to have backhaul access to another communication system and/or whether to adjust the point of presence of the user equipment.

Claims

1. A method for altering a point of presence of a user equipment, the method comprising:

detecting at a first portable cellular network communication system a user equipment (“

UE”

) within a first covered area, wherein the first portable cellular network communication system independently provides a first movable cellular network within the first covered area without communication to another portable cellular network communication system;

completing a handover routine with a second portable cellular network communication system such that the UE establishes a first cellular communication link with the first portable cellular network communication system and terminates a second cellular communication link with the second portable cellular network communication system, wherein the second portable cellular network communication system independently provides a second movable cellular network within a second covered area without communication to another portable cellular network communication system;

determining at the first portable cellular network communication system that the UE includes a first point of presence associated with a remote portable cellular network communication system other than the first portable cellular network communication system;

monitoring a wireless backhaul communication channel between the first portable cellular network communication system and the remote portable cellular network communication system; and

based at least in part on a determination that the wireless backhaul communication channel between the first portable cellular network communication system and the remote portable cellular network communication system does not satisfy a connectivity threshold, signaling the UE to adjust the first point of presence, and providing the UE with a second point of presence associated with the first portable cellular network communication system for communication within the first movable cellular network.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the point of presence comprises at least one of an IP address, a DNS identifier, or an access point identifier.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first portable cellular network communication system comprises:

a first antenna configured to receive first wireless communications from the user equipment,

one or more processors in communication with the first antenna and configured to process the first wireless communications, and

a first data store comprising authentication data of the user equipment.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said monitoring the backhaul communication comprises communicating query packets from the first portable cellular network communication system to the remote portable cellular network communication system.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the remote portable cellular network communication system is the second portable cellular network communication system.

6. A method for altering a point of presence of a user equipment, the method comprising:

determining at a backhaul access component that a user equipment (“

UE”

) located within a first covered area associated with a first portable cellular network communication system comprises a second point of presence associated with a second portable cellular network communication system, wherein the first portable cellular network communication system independently provides a first cellular network within the first covered area without communication to another portable cellular network communication system and the second portable cellular network communication system independently provides a second cellular network within a second covered area without communication to another portable cellular network communication system;

determining that a backhaul link between the first portable cellular network communication system and the second portable cellular network communication system does not satisfy a connectivity threshold;

based at least in part on said determining that the backhaul link between the first portable cellular network communication system and the second portable cellular network communication system does not satisfy the connectivity threshold, signaling the UE to adjust the second point of presence; and

causing the first portable cellular network communication system to provide the UE with a first point of presence associated with the first portable cellular network communication system.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein said signaling the UE to adjust the second point of presence comprises instructing the UE to reattach.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising determining that a priority level of at least one of the UE, a user of the UE, or data generated by the UE does not satisfy a priority threshold, and wherein said signaling is further based at least in part on said determining that the priority level does not satisfy the priority threshold.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the connectivity threshold comprises at least one of a bandwidth threshold, a latency threshold, an error rate threshold, a bit rate threshold, or a throughput threshold.

10. The method of claim 6, further comprising based at least in part on a determination that the backhaul link between the first portable cellular network communication system and the second portable cellular network communication system satisfies the connectivity threshold and that the UE includes the first point of presence, signaling the UE to adjust the first point of presence, wherein the second portable cellular network communication system provides the UE with a third point of presence associated with the second portable cellular network communication system.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the third point of presence matches the first point of presence.

12. A system for determining backhaul access, the system comprising one or more processors configured to:

determine that a user equipment (“

UE”

) located within a first covered area associated with a first portable cellular network communication system comprises a first point of presence associated with a second portable cellular network communication system, wherein the first portable cellular network communication system independently provides a first movable cellular network within the first covered area without communication to another portable cellular network communication system and the second portable cellular network communication system independently provides a second movable cellular network within a second covered area without communication to another portable cellular network communication system; and

based at least in part on one or more backhaul access criteria, cause the first portable cellular network communication system to provide the UE with a second point of presence associated with the first portable cellular network communication system.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the backhaul access criteria indicates that all UE within the first covered area are to receive a point of presence associated with the first portable cellular network communication system.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the backhaul access criteria comprises a connectivity threshold, and wherein the one or more processors are configured to cause the first portable cellular network communication system to provide the UE with the second point of presence based at least in part on a determination that a wireless backhaul link between the first portable cellular network communication system and the second portable cellular network communication system does not satisfy the connectivity threshold.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein the backhaul access criteria comprises a priority level threshold, and wherein the one or more processors are configured to cause the first portable cellular network communication system to provide the UE with the second point of presence based at least in part on a determination that a priority level associated with the UE does not satisfy the priority level threshold.

16. The system of claim 12, wherein the backhaul access criteria comprises a connectivity threshold and a priority level threshold and wherein the one or more processors are configured to cause the first portable cellular network communication system to provide the UE with the second point of presence based at least in part on a determination that at least one of a priority level associated with the UE does not satisfy the priority level threshold or a wireless backhaul link between the first portable cellular network communication system and the second portable cellular network communication system does not satisfy the connectivity threshold.

17. A first portable cellular network communication system located within a first covered area and configured to generate a first movable cellular network for the first covered area and provide first communication links to one or more first user equipment within the first covered area, the first portable cellular network communication system comprising:

a first antenna configured to receive first wireless communications from the one or more first user equipment;

one or more processors in communication with the first antenna and configured to process the first wireless communications; and

a first data store comprising authentication data of the one or more first user equipment within the first covered area,

wherein the first portable cellular network communication system independently provides the first movable cellular network for the one or more first user equipment in the first covered area without communication to another portable cellular network communication system, and wherein the first portable cellular network communication system is configured to;

detect a user equipment of the one or more first user equipment that includes a first point of presence associated with a second portable cellular network communication system other than the first portable cellular network communication system, and

based at least in part on one or more backhaul access criteria, provide the UE with a second point of presence associated with the first portable cellular network communication system.

18. The first portable cellular network communication system of claim 17, wherein the backhaul access criteria indicates that all UE within the first covered area are to receive a point of presence associated with the first portable cellular network communication system.

19. The first portable cellular network communication system of claim 17, wherein the backhaul access criteria comprises a connectivity threshold, and wherein the first portable cellular network communication system is further configured to provide the UE with the second point of presence based at least in part on a determination that a wireless backhaul link between the first portable cellular network communication system and the second portable cellular network communication system does not satisfy the connectivity threshold.

20. The first portable cellular network communication system of claim 17, wherein the backhaul access criteria comprises a priority level threshold, and wherein the first portable cellular network communication system is further configured to provide the UE with the second point of presence based at least in part on a determination that a priority level associated with the UE does not satisfy the priority level threshold.