Systems and methods that autonomously detect and measure ancillary communications for making ...

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US008385282B2
(12) Ulllted States Patent (10) Patent N0.: US 8,385,282 B2
Hoole (45) Date of Patent: Feb. 26, 2013
(54) SYSTEMS AND METHODS THAT 2008/0205345 A1 * 8/2008 Sachs et al. ................. .. 370/332
AUTONOMOUSLY DETECT AND MEASURE 2008/0254797 A1 * 10/2008 Achtari et al. .............. .. 455/436
2008/0268907 A1 10/2008 Senarath et al.
ANCILLARY COMMUNICATIONS FOR 2009 /0097 4 51 Al 4/2009 Gogic
MAKING HANDOVER DECISIONS 2009/0129341 A1 5/2009 Balasubramanian et a1.
2009/0170519 A1 * 7/2009 Wilhoite et a1. ............ .. 455/436
(75) Inventor: Elliott Hoole, Sammamish, WA (US) 2009/0191878 A1* 7/2009 Hedqvist et a1. ............ .. 455/441
2010/0027510 A1 2/2010 Balasubramanian et a1.
(73) Assignee: Eden Rock Communications, LLC, 2010/0173631 A1: 7/2010 Klm et 31' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ " 455/436
Bothell’ WA (Us) 2011/0292914 A1 12/2011 Sachs et al. ................. .. 370/332
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(65) Prior Publication Data y
Us 2010/0215023 A1 Aug. 26, 2010 Primary Examiner * Chi Pham
Assistant Examiner * Soon-Dong D Hyun
Related US. Application Data (57) ABSTRACT
(60) Provisional application No. 61/155,110, ?led on Feb. _ _ _ _ _ _
2 4 2009' A networked computlng system fac1l1tat1ng anc1llary dev1ce
’ measurement of regional network communications in order
(51) Int_ CL to determine intra-network communications handovers. The
H04W 4/00 (200901) networked computing system'includes a base station, one or
U s more tranSCeIVer deVICeS haVIng Shorter-range COmmumCa
. """ "I """ ". """ " ’ ’ tions ca abilit than the base station, user e ui ment, and a
(58) Field of Classi?cation Search ...................... .. None p .y . . . . q p .
See a lication ?le for Com lete Search histo data commumcatlons network fac1l1tat1ng data commumca
pp p ry' tions amongst the networked computing systems devices.
(56) References Ci- ted Within the network, a ?rst transceiver device ma y be con? g -
ured to detect ancillary communications between a user
U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS equipment and the base station, and then measure one or more
characteristics associated with the ancillary communications
2002/0090938 A1 7/ 2002 Dharia et al.
in response to detecting the ancillary communications. The
2006/0120392 A1 6/2006 Ye et al.
2006/0154660 A1 7/2006 Waugh et al. ?rst transceiver device may also be con?gured to transmit the
2007/0072609 A1 * 3/2007 Qiao et al. .................. .. 455/436 measured characteristics to the base station or to an auxiliary
2007/0173283 A1 * 7/2007 Livet et a1. ............... .. 455/552.l network controller device that is capable of making network
2007/0189261 A1 8/2007 Choi et al.
communications usage decisions based on one or more net
2008/0043658 A1 2/2008 Worrall
2008/0057956 A1 3/2008 Black et al. work resource usage rules.
2008/0076428 A1* 3/2008 Jagadeesan et al. ........ .. 455/436
2008/0117884 A1* 5/2008 Ishii et a1. ................... .. 370/338 19 Claims, 9 Drawing Sheets
US. Patent Feb. 26, 2013 Sheet 1 of9 US 8,385,282 B2
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subscriber is communicating or
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characteristics with the one or
more network resource usage
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devices also ?aliiablel?f providing communications session with
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Detect and measure the communications
session between the service subscriber
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local transceiver devices capable of
providing communications service to the
wireless subscriber
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based on a comparison oi‘ the received
local transceiver device measurements
to one or more network resource
usage rules
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