IP Library Granted Patent US 10,880,804
Granted Patent B2
US 10,880,804 · App. 16/209,148 · Granted Dec 29, 2020

Mobile device display of federated wireless access point networks for 5G or other next generation network

Inventors: Natalia Schenck (Dallas, TX); Sheldon Meredith (Roswell, GA); William Cottrill (Canton, GA)
Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
H04W36/30H04B17/318H04W36/14H04W64/003H04W84/12H04W88/06
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Patent No.
US 10,880,804
App. No.
16/209,148
Granted
Dec 29, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

Wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) devices that are not associated with a specific wireless carrier can be contractually operated as an extension of the specific Wi-Fi carrier. In this case, a display screen of a mobile device, that is currently communicating with the Wi-Fi device as an extension of the carrier, can display the carrier info. The display can be a result of a comparison between an internal mobile device data store and/or an external list that comprises the Wi-Fi devices that are acting as extensions of the carrier for a 5G network.

Claims (50)

1. A method, comprising:

in response to a defined time duration being determined to have lapsed, initiating, by a user equipment comprising a processor, sending request data, representative of a request, to a base station via a network;

in response to sending the request data, receiving, by the user equipment, first Wi-Fi device data representative of a first Wi-Fi device determined to be associated with the network;

in response to connecting to the first Wi-Fi device, receiving, by the user equipment, second Wi-Fi device data from the first Wi-Fi device;

comparing, by the user equipment, the first Wi-Fi device data to the second Wi-Fi device data;

based on a result of the comparing, displaying, by the user equipment, a Wi-Fi indicator on a screen of the user equipment;

connecting, by the user equipment, to a second Wi-Fi device different from the first Wi-Fi device; and

in response to the connecting, determining, by the user equipment, whether a condition associated with the connecting has been satisfied.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

based on the condition being determined to have been satisfied, continuing the displaying of the Wi-Fi indicator.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the Wi-Fi indicator comprises an indication that the second Wi-Fi device is associated with a service provider enabling the network.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first Wi-Fi device data is stored in a memory of the user equipment, and wherein the second Wi-Fi device data comprises basic service set identifier data associated with an identity of the second Wi-Fi device.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

based on the condition being determined not to have been satisfied, ceasing, by the user equipment, the displaying of the Wi-Fi indicator.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first Wi-Fi device data is stored in a memory of the user equipment as a function of time, and wherein the first Wi-Fi device data is stored in the memory based on a geographic location of the first Wi-Fi device.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the geographic location is a first geographic location, and wherein the first Wi-Fi device data is stored in the memory based on the first geographic location of the first Wi-Fi device in relation to a second geographic location of the base station associated with the network.

8. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

in response to a defined time duration being determined to have been lapsed upon a power-up procedure of a user equipment, receiving request data, representative of a request for first Wi-Fi device data from the user equipment;

in response to receiving the request data, and based on a condition being determined to have been satisfied, generating the first Wi-Fi device data associated with a Wi-Fi device communicatively coupled to a network;

sending the first Wi-Fi device data to the user equipment via the network;

in response to the user equipment communicating with the Wi-Fi device, facilitating comparing the first Wi-Fi device data to second Wi-Fi device data; and

based on the facilitating of the comparing, facilitating displaying service provider data indicative of an identity of a service provider associated with the network via a screen of the user equipment.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the condition is a function of a relationship between the Wi-Fi device and the service provider.

10. The system of claim 8 , wherein the identity of the service provider is a first identity, and wherein the second Wi-Fi device data comprises identity data representative of a second identity of the Wi-Fi device.

11. The system of claim 8 , wherein the operations further comprise:

in response to the sending the first Wi-Fi device data to the user equipment of the network, facilitating storing the first network data at the user equipment.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the operations further comprise:

in response to a time associated with the communicating having been determined to have lapsed, deleting the first Wi-Fi data from the user equipment.

13. The system of claim 8 , wherein the operations further comprise:

in response to the sending of the first Wi-Fi device data to the user equipment, facilitating storing the first Wi-Fi data at a data store, wherein the data store is remote for the user equipment.

14. The system of claim 8 , wherein the operations further comprise:

based on the comparing of the first Wi-Fi device data to the second Wi-Fi device data, determining a service associated with the network.

15. A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

in response to a defined time duration being determined to have been lapsed, sending request data, representative of a request for first Wi-Fi device data representative of a first Wi-Fi to network equipment;

in response to sending the request data, receiving the first Wi-Fi device data representative of the first Wi-Fi device being determined to be associated with a network;

in response to communicating with the first Wi-Fi device, receiving second Wi-Fi device data from the first Wi-Fi device;

comparing the first Wi-Fi device data to the second Wi-Fi device data, resulting in first comparison data;

based on the first comparison data, displaying connection data via a visual interface of a user equipment of the network, resulting in displayed connection data; and

in response to communicating with a second Wi-Fi device and based on a second comparison of the first Wi-Fi device data to third Wi-Fi device data from the second Wi-Fi device, removing the displayed connection data.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the operations further comprise:

downloading a data structure representative of Wi-Fi devices associated with the network.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the operations further comprise:

based on a time period associated with the communicating being determined to have expired, modifying the data structure.

18. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 17 , wherein the modifying of the data structure comprises removing the first Wi-Fi device data from the data structure.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the operations further comprise:

based on a location associated with the first Wi-Fi device, labeling the first Wi-Fi device as a home Wi-Fi device.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 19 , wherein the operations further comprise:

in response to the labeling of the first Wi-Fi device as the home Wi-Fi device, displaying service provider identity data via the visual interface of the user equipment.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 4, 2018
From: SCHENCK, NATALIA; MEREDITH, SHELDON; COTTRILL, WILLIAM
To: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
Reel/Frame 047669/0009 →
Continuity (1)
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