Apparatus and method for controlling traffic of electronic device

• US 10,004,051 B2
• Filed: 03/27/2017
• Issued: 06/19/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Ok-Seon, Kang, Hyeon-Jin, Moon, Sang-Jun, Park, Yong-Seok, Yoon, Kang-Jin
• Primary Examiner(s): Han, Clemence
• Application Number:
  US15/470,323
• Publication Number:
  US 20170201957A1
• Time in Patent Office: 449 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/554 involving event detection and direct action
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/00 Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units program control for peripheral devices G06F13/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0215 based on user or device properties, e.g. MTC-capable devices services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC] H04W4/70; wireless resource selection or allocation plan definition based on terminal or device properties H04W72/51
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/22 using selective relaying for reaching a BTS [Base Transceiver Station] or an access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0229 where the received signal is a wanted signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/0015 one node acting as a reference for the others
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

An apparatus and a method for controlling traffic of a second electronic device, which interworks with a first electronic device, in the first electronic device is provided. The method includes detecting occurrence of an event which needs to be notified to the second electronic device, determining a time to notify the occurrence of the event based on a driving time of the second electronic device, and transmitting an event occurrence notification signal to the second electronic device at the determined notification time.

Claims

1. A method for operating a first electronic device in a wireless environment, the method comprising:

detecting a generation of data within a predetermined time duration before a time set to transmit control information to a second electronic device; and

in response to detecting of the generation of the data, transmitting, to the second electronic device, the data with the control information before the time.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

performing a synchronization with the second electronic device by transmitting the control information at the time if the generation of the data is not detected within the predetermined time duration before the time.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting an update of the control information for an application which needs to be synchronized with the second electronic device.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

comparing an execution time of the application and a time of the data generated; and

transmitting, to the second electronic device, the updated control information at the execution time of the application, if the execution time is prior to the time of the data generated.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

transmitting, to the second electronic device, the data with the updated control information if the time of the data generated is prior to the execution time of the application.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the predetermined time duration is based on a driving time duration of the second electronic device.

7. An apparatus for an electronic device in a wireless environment, the apparatus comprising:

a transceiver; and

at least one processor configured to;

detect a generation of data within a predetermined time duration before a time set to transmit control information to a second electronic device, and

in response to detecting of the generation of the data, transmit, to the second electronic device, the data with the control information before the time.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to perform a synchronization with the second electronic device by transmitting the control information at the time if the generation of the data is not detected within the predetermined time duration before the time.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the processor is further configured to detect an update of the control information for an application which needs to be synchronized with the second electronic device.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the processor is further configured to:

compare an execution time of the application and a time of the data generated, and

transmit, to the second electronic device, the updated control information, at the execution time of the application, if the execution time is prior to the time of the data generated.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to transmit, to the second electronic device, the data with the updated control information if the time of the data generated is prior to the execution time of the application.

12. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the predetermined time duration is based on a driving time duration of the second electronic device.