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: 9119039
    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: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, William B. Quinn
  • Patent number: 9088859
    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: September 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Christopher Labrador
  • Publication number: 20150056960
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a wireless adapter that communicates with a network policy engine at a service provider to provide feedback on a network access policy of the service provider, an application processor that executes instructions of a context aware radio resource management system that determines one or more optimal wireless link options for communicating with a recipient user via a wireless link from among communication link options available from the service provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, William B. Quinn
  • Publication number: 20150055608
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a unified communicator for initiating, via an application processor, a wireless link with a recipient user, a wireless adapter for communicating with a wireless link. The application processor executes instructions for determining one or more communication link options with the recipient user and determines an optimal wireless link from among the communication link options with the recipient user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Charles A. Brooker
  • Publication number: 20140310719
    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: April 16, 2013
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Sunil Jason Kumar, Christopher Labrador, Richard William Schuckle
  • Publication number: 20140200036
    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: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: DELL PRODUCTS, LP
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, William B. Quinn, Radhakrishna R. Dasari
  • Publication number: 20140156483
    Abstract: A method and a system to assist wireless telecom service providers to make strategic investment decisions in their wireless networks is provided. Geographical profitability information in a wireless network is determined to decide where to invest capital funds in order to increase the revenue and profit for wireless service providers. The profitability of a geographical area or a sector is calculated based on network Operation Measurements and subscriber CDR (Call Detail Record) data. The system prioritizes the geographical areas and sectors for capital investments based on the profitability of the areas and sites. Similar information may be determined to assist wireless service providers in developing a decommissioning strategy. Embodiments of the present invention may also be used to reduce network churn by understanding where dissatisfied subscribers experience poor service and where network investments need to be made to improve the services and reduce churn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: CERION OPTIMIZATION SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Vinay Mallapu, Wei Yuan
  • Publication number: 20140099967
    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 6, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, William B. Quinn
  • Publication number: 20140099978
    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: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, William B. Quinn
  • Publication number: 20140094208
    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: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, William B. Quinn
  • Publication number: 20140066117
    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: September 6, 2012
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: DELL PRODUCTS, LP
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Christopher Labrador
  • Patent number: 8645251
    Abstract: A method and a system to assist wireless telecom service providers to make strategic investment decisions in their wireless networks is provided. Geographical profitability information in a wireless network is determined to decide where to invest capital funds in order to increase the revenue and profit for wireless service providers. The profitability of a geographical area or a sector is calculated based on network Operation Measurements and subscriber CDR (Call Detail Record) data. The system prioritizes the geographical areas and sectors for capital investments based on the profitability of the areas and sites. Similar information may be determined to assist wireless service providers in developing a decommissioning strategy. Embodiments of the present invention may also be used to reduce network churn by understanding where dissatisfied subscribers experience poor service and where network investments need to be made to improve the services and reduce churn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Cerion Optimization Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Vinay Mallapu, Wei Yuan
  • Patent number: 8073720
    Abstract: Systems and methods to assist wireless telecom service providers to determine the optimal core network evolution plan in a network planning time period. Total cost of ownership of wireless core networks is generally modeled to include capital expenditure, customer acquisition and retention cost, network operational cost and staffing and engineering cost. The total cost of ownership model is used to determine the optimal core network evolution plan at different layers of the core networks, which are modeled as a number of abstract networks in mathematical terms. A core network evolution optimization algorithm determines the optimal number of core network configurations and when to deploy the configurations in the planning period in order to minimize the total cost of ownership. A multi-level serving area optimization algorithm determines an optimal core network configuration at a given point of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Cerlon Optimization Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Wei Yuan, Henry Liu, Richard Wank, Peter Griffith, Dongdong Li
  • Publication number: 20100017247
    Abstract: A system and method for rehome sequencing optimization of a telecommunications network. In a preferred embodiment, a practicable optimized rehome sequencing plan is determined for a rehome plan in order to migrate the network topology from an initial state to a final state while minimizing the costs incurred during the network state transitions across multiple time periods. Constraints that may be considered include specific market restrictions such as the limit on the number of network elements in a cluster, the limit on the number of clusters in a sequencing step, the limit on the number of sequencing steps, and the immobility limit on the network elements. Constraints also may include cost restrictions incurred during network transitions, such as individual cost limits during each network transition state and an overall cost limit of network transitions from the initial state to the final state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: January 21, 2010
    Inventors: Feng Liu, Dongdong Li, Will A. Egner, Chen Liao, Yindong Zheng, He Liu
  • Publication number: 20090106064
    Abstract: Systems and methods to assist wireless telecom service providers to determine the optimal core network evolution plan in a network planning time period. Total cost of ownership of wireless core networks is generally modeled to include capital expenditure, customer acquisition and retention cost, network operational cost and staffing and engineering cost. The total cost of ownership model is used to determine the optimal core network evolution plan at different layers of the core networks, which are modeled as a number of abstract networks in mathematical terms. A core network evolution optimization algorithm determines the optimal number of core network configurations and when to deploy the configurations in the planning period in order to minimize the total cost of ownership. A multi-level serving area optimization algorithm determines an optimal core network configuration at a given point of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2006
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Wei Yuan, Henry Liu, Richard Wank, Peter Griffith, Dongdong Li
  • Publication number: 20080046306
    Abstract: A method and a system to assist wireless telecom service providers to make strategic investment decisions in their wireless networks is provided. Geographical profitability information in a wireless network is determined to decide where to invest capital funds in order to increase the revenue and profit for wireless service providers. The profitability of a geographical area or a sector is calculated based on network Operation Measurements and subscriber CDR (Call Detail Record) data. The system prioritizes the geographical areas and sectors for capital investments based on the profitability of the areas and sites. Similar information may be determined to assist wireless service providers in developing a decommissioning strategy. Embodiments of the present invention may also be used to reduce network churn by understanding where dissatisfied subscribers experience poor service and where network investments need to be made to improve the services and reduce churn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2005
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Vinay Mallapu, Wei Yuan
  • Patent number: 6931254
    Abstract: A communications system includes a facility that has a tracking system and a central control system. The tracking system tracks locations of users within the facility. Based on the locations of such users and their user profiles, targeted advertising information (and other types of information) may be presented on displays or other presentation devices in the proximity of each user. Also, user activity within the facility may be tracked, including purchases made by the users and visits to various retail outlets. Such information is collected, which can be used to update the profile the user or communicated to entities, such as retail entities, that are interested in the collected information. Also, to enable virtual visits to the facility, cameras are dispersed throughout the facility. A remote user can thus perform a virtual visit of the facility by viewing images collected by the cameras. Also, a remote user may choose to accompany a companion that is physically in the facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Radhika Gottipati, Vibhu Sawhney, Scott O. Kaylor, Cesar G. Heyaime
  • Publication number: 20030099014
    Abstract: A method of designing a network configuration comprising designating placement of a plurality of network components within a first network configuration having a plurality of sites and a respective physical link interconnecting two of the plurality of sites, modeling conveyance of an optical signal along a light path between at least two sites of the first network configuration, the modeled optical signal comprising a calculated signal attribute at a plurality of locations, the value of the calculated signal attribute at any of the plurality of locations dependent upon designation of a set of the network components included within the light path, determining a position for potential placement of at least one of an amplification stage and a regeneration stage within the first network configuration is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2002
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Vinay Kumar Reddy Mallapu, Yindong Zheng
  • Patent number: 6539221
    Abstract: The present invention is a system for optimizing an existing wireless network and additions to an existing network. The system determines a value representing estimation of traffic in discrete bins within a geographic area. The traffic estimation includes a distribution of handover and new cell traffic based at least in part on the presence of a road in any bin or the proximity of a bin to a handover boundary. The cell coverage and carrier allocations of existing cells are adjusted in view of the traffic estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2003
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Mini Vasudevan, Carlos Garcia, Chang Yu, Hakan Ernam, Will Egner, Sairam Subramanian, Kenni Rasmussen
  • Patent number: 6223041
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system, radio resources are dynamically assigned among a plurality of intercoupled base stations based upon historical loading to reduce both localized and system interference. A plurality of loading intervals are first determined that span a loading interval sequence. The loading intervals may correspond to time based periods such as fifteen-minute, thirty-minute, hour or other time intervals. The loading interval sequence may correspond to a weekday, a weekend day or such other loading period within which loading resembles a pattern. Based upon estimated loading for the loading interval, a number of channels required to service load for the loading interval are made to meet a minimal service level is determined. An initial assignment of channels among the cells/sectors of the base stations of the wireless communication system is then made to satisfy localized radio interference criteria. Such an assignment will typically be made to preclude local reuse of channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Nortel Networks LTD
    Inventors: Will A. Egner, Vasant Prabhu