Apparatus, system, and method for predicting roaming patterns of mobile devices within wireless networks

• Main Authors: NANDI SUDIPTO, VARUGHESE ANU JOYKUTTY
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 05.10.2016
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

Embodiments of the present invention relates to an apparatus, system, and method for predicting roaming patterns of mobile devices within wireless networks. The disclosed apparatus may include (1) a storage device that maintains information about mobile devices roaming within a wireless network, (2) an AP-prediction unit that (A) determines, based at least in part on the information maintained in the storage device, a number of times that a mobile device has visited a specific AP within the wireless network, (C) generates, based at least in part on the number of times, a score that represents a probability that the specific AP is the next AP visited by the mobile device, and then (D) determines that the score is above a certain threshold, and (3) a profile-distribution unit that provides, in response to the determination that the score is above the certain threshold, the specific AP with a roaming-session profile that facilitates transferring a roaming session of the mobile device to the specific AP. Various