IP Library Granted Patent US 10,405,357
Granted Patent B2
US 10,405,357 · App. 15/044,033 · Granted Sep 3, 2019

Method and apparatus for smart vehicle gateway multi-hop networked communication using context aware radio communication management

Inventors: Will A. Egner (Cedar Park, TX); Liam B. Quinn (Austin, TX)
Assignee: Dell Products, LP
H04W76/10A61B5/0004A61B5/0022A61B5/1451A61B5/14503A61B5/14532A61B5/14542A61B5/14546A61B5/6849G05B15/02H04L12/1403H04W4/029H04W4/80H04W24/02H04W40/10H04W48/08H04W48/16H04W48/18H04W64/003H04W64/006H04W76/11A61B5/0002A61B2560/063H04W8/183H04W88/06H04W88/16
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Patent No.
US 10,405,357
App. No.
15/044,033
Filed
Feb 15, 2016
Granted
Sep 3, 2019
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2474
USPC
370/338
Abstract

A first information handling system functioning as a smart vehicle gateway comprising a wireless adapter to communicate with a wireless link, wherein at least one wireless link is a multi-hop wireless link to a tethered second information handling system, a storage device to store a spatial-temporal user profile comprising wireless device usage trend data for a plurality of locations where the smart vehicle gateway has operated, a positional detector to detect a location of the smart vehicle gateway, where the application processor determines an available peer-to-peer wireless protocol link operating at the tethered second information handling system to establish a multi-hop wireless link and the application processor determines a list of optimal available wireless protocols at the location based on a mobile wireless traffic report with a spatial-temporal radio frequency profile indicating signal quality for a plurality of wireless links and based the wireless device usage trend data of the smart vehicle gateway for the location. The application processor further determines whether the multi-hop wireless link is included in the list of optimal available wireless protocols at the location based on a link rating for an available wireless protocol operating at an anchor mobile gateway device in the multi-hop wireless link having an upstream wireless link to a WWAN wireless network, and the wireless adapter establishes a selected optimal wireless link.

Claims (55)

1. A first information handling system functioning as a smart vehicle gateway comprising:

a wireless adapter to communicate with a wireless link, wherein at least one wireless link is a multi-hop wireless link between the first information handling system and a tethered second information handling system operating within peer-to-peer wireless range of a first detected location;

a storage device to store a spatial-temporal user profile comprising wireless device usage trend data for a plurality of locations where the smart vehicle gateway has operated;

a positional detector to detect the first detected location of the smart vehicle gateway;

an application processor to determine an available peer-to-peer wireless protocol link operating at the tethered second information handling system to establish a multi-hop wireless link;

the application processor to determine a list of optimal available wireless protocols at the first detected location based on a mobile wireless traffic report with a spatial-temporal radio frequency profile indicating signal quality for a plurality of wireless links and based on the wireless device usage trend data of a wireless upstream link for the smart vehicle gateway operating the first information handling system in tandem with the tethered second information handling system for the first detected location;

the application processor determining whether the multi-hop wireless link is included in the list of optimal available wireless protocols at the first detected location based on a link rating for an available wireless protocol operating at an anchor mobile gateway device of the smart vehicle gateway in the multi-hop wireless link having the upstream wireless link to a wireless wide area network (WWAN); and

the wireless adapter establishing a selected optimal wireless link.

2. The smart vehicle gateway of claim 1 , wherein first information handling system is a first smart vehicle gateway and the tethered second information handling system is a second smart vehicle gateway serving as the anchor mobile gateway device.

3. The smart vehicle gateway of claim 1 , wherein the tethered second information handling system is further linked to a third information handling system to form a chain multi-hop wireless link to the anchor mobile gateway device.

4. The smart vehicle gateway of claim 1 further comprising:

the application processor to determine a predicted future path of the smart vehicle gateway and a predicted future path of the tethered second information handling system such that if the predicted future paths diverge beyond a threshold distance level, the multi-hop wireless link is eliminated from the list of optimal wireless protocol links available to the first smart vehicle gateway.

5. The smart vehicle gateway of claim 1 further comprising:

the application processor to determine relative velocity between the first smart vehicle gateway and tethered second information handling system such that above a threshold relative velocity difference, the multi-hop wireless link is excluded from the list of optimal wireless protocol links available to the first smart vehicle gateway.

6. The smart vehicle gateway of claim 1 , wherein the optimal wireless service carriers and available wireless protocols are those that meet a minimum threshold of signal quality at the first detected location, including a minimum threshold of signal quality for the upstream wireless link to a WWAN via the anchor mobile gateway device of the multi-hop wireless link.

7. The smart vehicle gateway of claim 1 further comprising:

a local wireless adapter to wirelessly communicate with a plurality of information handling systems within a vehicle,

wherein the optimal wireless service carriers and available wireless protocols are those that meet a minimum threshold of signal quality at the first detected location corresponding to expected communication types according to wireless device usage trend data for the plurality of information handling systems within the vehicle.

8. The smart vehicle gateway of claim 1 further comprising:

the multi-hop wireless link is a mesh multi-hop wireless link having a plurality of tethered information handling systems one of which has a peer-to-peer link to an anchor mobile gateway device.

9. A computer implemented method comprising:

storing a spatial-temporal user profile comprising wireless device usage trend data for a plurality of locations where a first information handling system operating as a smart vehicle gateway has operated;

detecting, via a positional detector, a first detected position of the smart vehicle gateway;

determining, via an application processor, an available peer-to-peer wireless protocol link between the first information handling system and a tethered second information handling system operating within peer-to-peer wireless range of the first detected location to establish a multi-hop wireless link;

determining, via the application processor executing code instructions, a list of optimal wireless service carriers and available wireless protocols at the first detected location based on a mobile wireless traffic report with a spatial-temporal radio frequency profile indicating signal quality for the plurality of wireless links and the wireless device usage trend data of the smart vehicle gateway for the first detected location;

determining, via the application processor, whether the multi-hop wireless link of the first information handling system operating in tandem with the tethered second information handling system is included in the list of optimal available wireless protocols at the first detected location based on a link rating for an available wireless protocol operating at an anchor mobile gateway device in the multi-hop wireless link, wherein the anchor mobile gateway device has an upstream wireless link to a WWAN; and

establishing, via a wireless adapter, a selected optimal wireless link.

10. The computer implemented method of claim 9 further comprising:

wirelessly communicating, via a local wireless adapter of the smart vehicle gateway, with a plurality of information handling systems within a vehicle,

wherein the optimal wireless service carriers and available wireless protocols are those that meet a minimum threshold of signal quality at the first detected location corresponding to expected communication types according to wireless device usage trend data for the plurality of information handling systems within the vehicle.

11. The computer implemented method of claim 9 , wherein the tethered second information handling system is a second smart vehicle gateway serving as the anchor mobile gateway device.

12. The computer implemented method of claim 9 , wherein the tethered second information handling system is further linked to a third information handling system to form a chain multi-hop wireless link to the anchor mobile gateway device.

13. The computer implemented method of claim 9 further comprising:

excluding the multi-hop wireless link from the list of optimal wireless protocol links available to the smart vehicle gateway when predicted future path of the smart vehicle gateway and a predicted future path of the tethered second information handling system such that if the predicted future paths diverge beyond a threshold distance level.

14. The computer implemented method of claim 9 further comprising:

selecting a future time; and

excluding the multi-hop wireless link from the list of optimal wireless protocol links available to the smart vehicle gateway when predicted future location of the smart vehicle gateway at the future time and a predicted future location of the tethered second information handling system at the future time exceeds a threshold distance level.

15. A first information handling system functioning as a mobile wireless gateway comprising:

a wireless adapter to communicate with a plurality of wireless links, wherein at least one wireless link is a peer-to-peer wireless link to a tethered second information handling system forming a multi-hop wireless link between the first information handling system and the tethered second information handling system operating within peer-to-peer wireless range of a first detected location and another wireless link is a wireless upstream link to a WWAN;

a storage device to store a spatial-temporal user profile comprising wireless device usage trend data for a plurality of locations where the mobile wireless gateway has operated the wireless upstream link and in tandem with the tethered second information handling system;

the storage device to receive and store a spatial-temporal user profile comprising wireless device usage trend data for a plurality of locations where the tethered second information handling system has operated;

a positional detector to detect the first detected location of the mobile wireless gateway;

an application processor to determine a list of optimal available wireless protocols at the first detected location based on a mobile wireless traffic report with a spatial-temporal radio frequency profile indicating signal quality for a plurality of wireless upstream links and the wireless device usage trend data, including the wireless device usage trend data for the tethered second information handling system, wherein the application processor determines link ratings for the available upstream wireless protocol operating at the mobile wireless gateway; and

the wireless adapter to establish a selected optimal wireless link for the wireless upstream link.

16. The mobile wireless gateway of claim 15 , wherein the mobile wireless gateway is a smart vehicle gateway serving as an anchor mobile gateway device and the tethered second information handling system is a second smart vehicle gateway connected via one or more peer-to-peer wireless link hops.

17. The mobile wireless gateway of claim 15 , wherein the optimal wireless service carriers and available wireless protocols are those that meet a minimum threshold of signal quality at the first detected location of the mobile wireless gateway, wherein the minimum threshold of signal quality corresponds to expected communication types according to the wireless device usage trend data, including wireless device usage trend data for the tethered second information handling system.

18. The mobile wireless gateway of claim 15 further comprising:

the application processor to select an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) corresponding to a wireless service carrier for the selected optimal wireless link via an electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) programmable to switch between multiple available wireless service carriers.

19. The mobile wireless gateway of claim 15 further comprising:

the wireless adapter to establish a second selected optimal wireless upstream link for the mobile wireless gateway;

the application processor to select a second IMSI for a second optimal wireless link via a second eSIM programmable to switch between multiple available wireless service carriers; and

the wireless adapter to establish the second selected optimal wireless link on a second carrier corresponding to the second selected IMSI.

20. The mobile wireless gateway of claim 15 further comprising:

the mobile wireless gateway providing a downstream multi-hop wireless link to a plurality of tethered information handling systems transmitting data through the tethered second information handling system; and

the application processor to determine a list of optimal available wireless protocols at the first detected location based on a mobile wireless traffic report with a spatial-temporal radio frequency profile indicating signal quality for a plurality of wireless upstream links at the mobile wireless gateway first detected location and based on the wireless device usage trend data, including wireless device usage trend data for the plurality of tethered information handling systems.

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