System and method for synchronization using device pairings with docking stations

• US 9,990,242 B2
• Filed: 03/14/2017
• Issued: 06/05/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Dell Products LP (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Cox, Claude Lano, Quinn, Liam B., Welker, Mark W., Ancona, Rocco
• Primary Examiner(s): Mudrick, Timothy A
• Application Number:
  US15/458,526
• Publication Number:
  US 20170185462A1
• Time in Patent Office: 448 Days
• Field of Search: 719318
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/4081 Live connection to bus, e.g. hot-plugging current or voltage limitation during live insertion H02H9/004
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/52 Program synchronisation; Mutual exclusion, e.g. by means of semaphores
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/547 Remote procedure calls [RPC]; Web services
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/02 Knowledge representation; Symbolic representation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/00 Synchronisation arrangements

Abstract

A system and method for synchronizing information from an information handling system is disclosed. The method includes identifying a device within a pre-determined range of a docking station, the device operable to communicate with the docking station. The method also includes pairing with the device, determining a user of the device, and predicting, based upon past activity by the user at another docking station, content to be launched on the device. The method further include presenting the content for launching on the device, receiving a selection of the content; and launching the content on the device.

Claims

1. A method for synchronizing content for an information handling system comprising:

determining that a first mobile device is within a pre-determined range of a first docking station, the first mobile device operable to communicate with the first docking station;

identifying an identity of the first mobile device;

determining a user of the first mobile device;

identifying a set of preferences associated with the user;

predicting, based upon the identified set of preferences, the identification of the first mobile device, and past activity by the user using the first mobile device coupled to a second docking station, content to be launched on the first mobile device, wherein the predicting includes determining at least one of content that was most recently accessed by the user through the second docking station, content that was most recently accessed by a second mobile device of the user docked to the second docking station, and a pattern of usage by the user at the second docking station and by the first mobile device docked to the first docking station; and

presenting the content for launching on the first mobile device;

wherein the first mobile, the first docking station, and the second docking station are discrete devices.

2. The method of claim 1,

wherein the presenting the content includes presenting at least two options encapsulating different sets of the content;

the method further comprising;

receiving a selection of one of the at least two options;

launching the selected option on the first mobile device; and

subsequent to the launching the selected option, allowing another selection of another option of the at least two options and launching of the other option.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising polling the second docking station to determine if the user had previously accessed content through the second docking station.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising polling the second docking station to determine if the first mobile device had previously accessed content through the second docking station.

5. An information handling system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory communicatively coupled to the processor;

wherein the memory includes instructions executable by the processor, the instructions, when executed, cause the information handling system to;

determine that a first mobile device within a pre-determined range of a first docking station, the first mobile device operable to communicate with the first docking station;

identify an identity of the first mobile device;

pair with the first mobile device; and

determine a user of the first mobile device;

identify a set of preferences associated with the user;

predict, based upon the identified set of preferences, the identification of the first mobile device, and past activity by the user at a second docking station, content to be launched on the first mobile device, wherein, to predict the content to be launched, the instructions further cause the information handling system to determine at least one of content that was most recently accessed by the user through the second docking station, content that was most recently accessed by a second mobile device of the user docked to the second docking station, and a pattern of usage by the user at the second docking station and by the first mobile device docked to the first docking station;

present the content for launching on the first mobile device;

receive a selection of the content; and

launch the content on the first mobile device.

6. The information handling system of claim 5,

wherein, to present the content, the instructions further cause the information handling system to present at least two options encapsulating different sets of the content;

and

wherein the instructions further cause the information handling system to;

receive a selection of one of the at least two options;

launch the selected option on the first mobile device; and

subsequent to launching the selected option, allow selection of another option of the at least two options and launch the other option.

7. The information handling system of claim 5, wherein the the instructions further cause the information handling system to poll the second docking station to determine if the user had previously accessed content through the other docking station.

8. The information handling system of claim 5, wherein the instructions further cause the information handling system to poll the second docking station to determine if the first mobile device had previously accessed content through the second docking station.

9. A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions stored therein, the instructions executable by one or more processors, the instructions, when read and executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

determine that a first mobile device within a pre-determined range of a first docking station, the first mobile device operable to communicate with the first docking station;

identify an identity of the first mobile device;

pair with the first mobile device;

determine a user of the first mobile device;

identify a set of preferences associated with the user;

predict, based upon the identified set of preferences, the identification of the first mobile device, and past activity by the user at a second docking station, content to be launched on the first mobile device, wherein, to predict the content to be launched, the instructions further cause the one or more processors to determine at least one of content that was most recently accessed by the user through the second docking station, content that was most recently accessed by a second mobile device of the user docked to the second docking station, and a pattern of usage by the user at the second docking station and by the first mobile device docked to the first docking station; and

present the content for launching on the first mobile device.

10. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 9,

wherein, to present the content, the instructions further cause the one or more processors to present at least two options encapsulating different sets of the content;

and

wherein the instructions further cause the one or more processors to;

receive a selection of one of the options;

launch the selected option on the first mobile device; and

subsequent to launching the selected option, allow selection of another option of the at least two options and launch the other option.

11. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the instructions further cause the one or more processors to poll the second docking station to determine if the first mobile device had previously accessed content through the second docking station.