Efficiently responding to mobile-device requests in a wireless environment
View Patent ↗Multiple mobile devices can request or wait for acknowledgement from a device associated with a mobile telecommunications network. Embodiments of the present invention include creating and broadcasting a single acknowledgment to multiple mobile devices. Mobile devices can be associated with identifiers that include sets of characters. In order to acknowledge more than one device with one broadcast, subsets of characters from more than one identifier can be included in one value. One acknowledgement is broadcast to multiple devices. The devices are able to identify the unique subsets of characters and compare them to portions of identifiers. Multiple devices can recognize acknowledgement based on a shared value that is broadcast to the devices.
1. Non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, cause a computing device to perform a method of acknowledging requests from multiple mobile devices, the method comprising:
determining that a first mobile device identifier identifies a first mobile device, wherein said first mobile device identifier includes a first group of digits;
determining that a second mobile device identifier identifies a second mobile device, wherein said second mobile device identifier includes a second group of digits;
creating a string of digits that includes the first group of digits from the first mobile device identifier and the second group of digits from the second mobile device identifier; and
broadcasting a single acknowledgement that includes said string of digits such that said string of digits within said single acknowledgement is useable to satisfy two acknowledgement requests, one sent from the first mobile device and another sent from the second mobile device.
2. The media of claim 1 , wherein said string of digits is a ten-digit string, and wherein the first group of digits and the second groups of digits are each four-digit groups of digits.
3. The media of claim 2 , wherein the first group of digits is the last four digits of the first identifier, and wherein the second group of digits is the last four digits of the second identifier.
4. The media of claim 2 , wherein said string of digits includes an indicator, and wherein said indicator is at least one digit, and wherein said indicator indicates that said string of digits includes digits from more than one identifier.
5. The media of claim 1 , wherein including the first and second groups of digits in said string of digits is based on a level of demand for acknowledgment requests associated with the network.
6. The media of claim 1 , wherein the first mobile device and the second mobile devices each include logic that indicates that said string of digits is useable to satisfy more than one acknowledgement request.
7. The media of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining that a third identifier identifies a third mobile device; and
determining that the third identifier includes a third group of digits, wherein said string of digits includes the third group of digits.
8. Non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed, perform a method of simultaneously acknowledging more than one mobile device, the method comprising:
receiving a first access probe from a first mobile device, wherein said first mobile device seeks access to a wireless telecommunications network;
receiving a second access probe from a second mobile device, wherein said second mobile device seeks access to the wireless telecommunications network;
determining that said first mobile device is associated with a first string of characters;
determining that said second mobile device is associated with a second string of characters;
obtaining a first subset of characters from said first string of characters, wherein the first subset is useable to self-identify said first mobile device;
obtaining a second subset of characters from said second string of characters, wherein the second subset is useable to self-identify said second mobile device;
preparing one acknowledgement message that includes an identity value field, wherein the identity value field contains a shared identity value that includes both the first subset of characters that is useable to self-identify said first mobile device and the second subset of characters that is useable to self-identify said second mobile device; and
broadcasting said one acknowledgement message to both the first mobile device and the second mobile device to satisfy both said first and second access probes.
9. The media of claim 8 , wherein preparing one acknowledgment message includes determining a length of each subset of characters, based at least in part on an amount of devices that share the one acknowledgement message.
10. The media of claim 8 , wherein the identity value field includes a one-digit indicator, wherein the one-digit indicator indicates that more than one subset of characters is included in the identity value field.
11. The media of claim 10 , wherein the one-digit indicator is any non-zero digit that is in a first location of the identity value field, wherein a digit in the first location is the first digit of the identity value field that is received by the first and second mobile devices.
12. The media of claim 10 , wherein the one-digit indicator indicates an amount of characters in each of the first and second subset of characters.
13. The media of claim 8 , wherein the acknowledgement message includes a second field that includes a flag, wherein the flag indicates that more than one subset of characters is included in the first field.