Patents by Inventor Will A. Egner

Will A. Egner has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9674880
    Abstract: An information handling system functioning as a smart vehicle gateway includes a wireless adapter for communicating with a plurality of wireless links and a storage device for storing a spatial-temporal user profile comprising wireless device usage trend data for a plurality of locations where the smart vehicle gateway has operated. The smart vehicle gateway further includes a positional detector to detect a location of the smart vehicle gateway and an application processor to correlate the wireless device usage trend data to a location and to determine a list of optimal wireless service carriers and available wireless protocols at the 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 for the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn
  • Publication number: 20170134990
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a wireless adapter for communicating with a wireless link. The information handling system further includes positional detector and an application processor that determines a trajectory estimation during a future time interval. An application processor to select a predicted future information handling system path during the future time interval based on correlation between the trajectory estimation and wireless device usage trend data for a plurality of locations and further selecting an optimal wireless link from a plurality of available wireless links for the predicted future information handling system path during the future time interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn
  • Publication number: 20170079046
    Abstract: A system and method for selecting, via a processor, a future time interval of operation and to determine a plurality of predicted future information handling system locations, determining a predominant wireless service for a future time interval of operation from a spatial-temporal user profile, and determining quality of service (QoS) requirements during the selected future time interval for the predominant wireless service at the plurality of predicted future information handling system locations, wherein the spatial-temporal user profile comprises historical wireless service type profiles for a plurality of locations where the information handling system has operated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn
  • Publication number: 20170048744
    Abstract: A system or method includes receiving wireless communication device usage trend data for a plurality of available wireless communication devices associated with a recipient and detecting, via an application processor executing instructions for a pan device communication optimization agent, a plurality communication paths with the plurality of wireless communication devices associated with the recipient. The system or method further includes determining an end-to-end quality score for a wireless communication device associated with the user and with available communication paths with the wireless communication devices associated with the recipient. In some aspects, the system and method include selecting at least one preferred communication path between the wireless communication device associated with the user and at least one wireless communication device associated with the recipient based on comparison of end-to-end scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn
  • Patent number: 9552227
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for context-aware adaptive computing. In one embodiment, the present disclosure includes a method comprising receiving a request at a first information handling system (IHS) to perform an application computation. The method also includes determining a user's context, the user operating the first IHS, and ascertaining a battery state of the first IHS. The method further includes allocating the application computation between the first IHS and a second IHS based at least on the user's context and the battery state of the first IHS. The present disclosure also includes associated systems and apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Sunil Jason Kumar, Christopher Labrador, Richard William Schuckle
  • Patent number: 9544907
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a wireless adapter for communicating with a wireless link and a storage device for storing a spatial-temporal user profile comprising historical wireless service type profiles for a location where the information handling system is operating. The information handling system further includes an application processor that selects a predicted future system during a future time interval. The application processor determines quality of service requirements along the predicted future system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn
  • Patent number: 9532273
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a wireless adapter for communicating with a wireless link and a storage device for storing a spatial-temporal user profile comprising wireless device usage trend data for a location where the information handling system is operating. The information handling system further includes positional detector and an application processor that determines a trajectory estimation during a future time interval. The application processor correlates the wireless device usage trend date for a location in or near the trajectory estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn
  • Patent number: 9510357
    Abstract: A method includes receiving wireless communication device usage trend data for a plurality of available wireless communication devices associated with a recipient and detecting, via an application processor executing instructions for a pan device communication optimization agent, a plurality communication paths with the plurality of wireless communication devices associated with the recipient. The method further includes an end-to-end quality score for a wireless communication device associated with the user, wherein the end-to-end quality score is based on selection of a communication type, wireless communication device usage trend data, wireless link quality for available communication paths with the wireless communication devices associated with the recipient and selecting at least one preferred communication path between the wireless communication device associated with the user and at least one wireless communication device associated with the recipient based on comparison of end-to-end scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn
  • Publication number: 20160249223
    Abstract: An information handling system includes an application processor that executes instructions to determine one or more communication link options and a wireless adapter that communicates with a conditional shared spectrum wireless link option. The application processor determines whether a higher priority user is occupying the conditional shared spectrum wireless link option and determines an optimal wireless link from among the communication link options, including any available conditional shared spectrum wireless link options, and selects a wireless link from among the wireless link options based on a spatial-temporal radio frequency profile that indicates signal quality for wireless links available at the location and a spatial-temporal user profile, including wireless service usage trend data for the location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn
  • Publication number: 20160192109
    Abstract: An information handling system comprising a wireless adapter for communicating via a wireless link and a storage device for storing a spatial-temporal user profile comprising wireless service usage trend data for a location where the information handling system is operating. The storage device further stores radiofrequency wireless traffic reports indicating signal quality for a plurality of wireless links available at the location and an application processor executes code of a context aware radiofrequency resource management system in determining link ratings for the plurality of wireless links available at the location based on the wireless service usage trend data for the information handling system and signal quality for the available wireless protocols for anticipated wireless service usage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Christopher Labrador
  • Publication number: 20160192243
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a wireless adapter for communicating with a wireless link and a storage device for storing a spatial-temporal user profile comprising wireless device usage trend data for a location where the information handling system is operating. The information handling system further includes positional detector and an application processor that determines a trajectory estimation during a future time interval. The application processor correlates the wireless device usage trend date for a location in or near the trajectory estimation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, William B. Quinn
  • Patent number: 9313603
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a wireless adapter for communicating with a wireless link and a storage device for storing a spatial-temporal user profile comprising wireless service usage trend data for a location where the information handling system is operating. The storage device further includes storing a spatial-temporal radio frequency profile indicating signal quality for wireless links available at the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS, LP
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Christopher Labrador
  • Publication number: 20160088633
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a wireless adapter for communicating with a wireless link and a storage device for storing a spatial-temporal user profile comprising historical wireless service type profiles for a location where the information handling system is operating. The information handling system further includes an application processor that selects a predicted future system during a future time interval. The application processor determines quality of service requirements along the predicted future system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn
  • Publication number: 20160044692
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a storage device for storing a spatial-temporal radio frequency profile for indicating signal quality for wireless links available at the location. The information handling system further includes an application processor that selects a predicted future path for a mobile information handling system during a future time interval. The application processor determines predicts radio quality of wireless links over the predicted future path selected for the system based on measured radio quality of service parameters for locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn
  • Publication number: 20160034309
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for context-aware adaptive computing. In one embodiment, the present disclosure includes a method comprising receiving a request at a first information handling system (IHS) to perform an application computation. The method also includes determining a user's context, the user operating the first IHS, and ascertaining a battery state of the first IHS. The method further includes allocating the application computation between the first IHS and a second IHS based at least on the user's context and the battery state of the first IHS. The present disclosure also includes associated systems and apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Sunil Jason Kumar, Christopher Labrador, Richard William Schuckle
  • Patent number: 9210714
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a wireless adapter for communicating with a wireless link and a storage device for storing a spatial-temporal user profile comprising historical wireless service type profiles for a location where the information handling system is operating. The information handling system further includes an application processor that selects a predicted future system during a future time interval. The application processor determines quality of service requirements along the predicted future system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, William B. Quinn
  • Publication number: 20150326994
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a wireless adapter for communicating with a wireless link and a storage device for storing a spatial-temporal user profile comprising wireless service usage trend data for a location where the information handling system is operating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Christopher Labrador
  • Patent number: 9164810
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for context-aware adaptive computing. In one embodiment, the present disclosure includes a method comprising receiving a request at a first information handling system (IHS) to perform an application computation. The method also includes determining a user's context, the user operating the first IHS, and ascertaining a battery state of the first IHS. The method further includes allocating the application computation between the first IHS and a second IHS based at least on the user's context and the battery state of the first IHS. The present disclosure also includes associated systems and apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Sunil Jason Kumar, Christopher Labrador, Richard William Schuckle
  • Patent number: 9167591
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a storage device for storing a spatial-temporal radio frequency profile for indicating signal quality for wireless links available at the location. The information handling system further includes an application processor that selects a predicted future path for a mobile information handling system during a future time interval. The application processor determines predicts radio quality of wireless links over the predicted future path selected for the system based on measured radio quality of service parameters for locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, William B. Quinn
  • Patent number: 9143926
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a processor determining a threshold number of users of a source software application from the plurality of mobile devices near a wireless radio transmitter location and a mobile virtual machine distribution system deploying a virtual machine copy of the source software application to a server near the wireless radio transmitter location when the threshold number of users is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Liam B. Quinn, Radhakrishna R. Dasari