Efficient usage of internet services on mobile devices

• US 10,028,225 B2
• Filed: 08/26/2015
• Issued: 07/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Ayyagari, Phani Kumar V. U., Bhide, Manish A., Jasti, Purnachandra R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nowlin, Eric
• Application Number:
  US14/835,800
• Publication Number:
  US 20170064630A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,056 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0251 using monitoring of local events, e.g. events related to user activity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0264 by selectively disabling software applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0274 by switching on or off the equipment or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

Communications systems including multiple computer devices where: (i) for a set of computer devices, used by a common user, it is determined which computer device the user is most actively using; and (ii) an operational mode of a “wireless service” (see definition, below) on one of the other computer devices (that is, a non-most-active computer device) is changed in its operational mode. For example, if a user has two smart phones and the user'"'"'s first smart phone is determined to be more active than the second smart phone, then on the second smart phone (that is, the non-most-active computer device) a social media home page updating service is turned off. In some embodiments, the change from first operational mode to second operational mode will mean that wireless transceiver hardware (such as an antenna) is turned off for the non-most-active device(s).

Claims

1. A computer program product for use with a first computer device of a first user and a second computer device of the first user, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon:

instructions executable by a set of processor(s) to cause the set of processor(s) to run a wireless service on the first computer device;

instructions executable by the set of processor(s) to cause the set of processor(s) to receive, by the wireless service, first battery level information including information indicating a low battery condition of the first computer device;

instructions executable by the set of processor(s) to cause the set of processor(s) to receive, by the wireless service, second battery level information including information indicating that the second computer device is not in a low battery condition;

and

instructions executable by the set of processor(s) to cause the set of processor(s) to send, by the wireless service, a command to switch the wireless service from running on the first computer device to running on the second computer device based upon the first battery level information and the second battery level information;

wherein;

the first battery level information is different than the second battery level information;

the first battery level information and the second battery level information relate to two different batteries.

2. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein:

the first computer device is a battery powered mobile device; and

the second computer device is a battery powered mobile device.

3. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the switch of the wireless service from running on the first computer device to running the second computer device causes a reduction in a number of wireless communications between the first computer device and the wireless service, thereby preserving battery life of the first computer device while it is in low battery condition.

4. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein:

the wireless service is an internet service; and

the internet service includes at least one of the following types of internet services;

email, rich site summary (RSS) feeds, social networking updates, texting applications that use internet connections, instant messaging service, internet telephony applications, internet provider services, internet based media editing, web browsing, and/or multimedia uploading or downloading.

5. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the switching of the wireless service from running on the first computer device to the second computer device includes shutting off wireless transceiver hardware of the first computer device.

6. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein:

the wireless service is a cloud account of the first user.

7. A computer system for use with a first computer device of a first user and a second computer device, the computer system comprising:

a processor(s) set; and

a computer readable storage medium;

wherein;

the processor(s) set is configured to execute instructions stored on the computer readable storage medium; and

the instructions include;

instructions executable by the set of processor(s) to cause the set of processor(s) to run a wireless service on the first computer device;

instructions executable by the set of processor(s) to cause the set of processor(s) to receive, by the wireless service, first battery level information including information indicating a low battery condition of the first computer device;

instructions executable by the set of processor(s) to cause the set of processor(s) to receive, by the wireless service, second battery level information including information indicating that the second computer device is not in a low battery condition;

and

instructions executable by the set of processor(s) to cause the set of processor(s) to send, by the wireless service, a command to switch the wireless service from running on the first computer device to running on the second computer device based upon the first battery level information and the second battery level information;

wherein;

the first battery level information is different than the second battery level information and the first battery level information and the second battery level information relate to two different batteries.

8. The computer system of claim 7 wherein:

the first computer device is a battery powered mobile device; and

the second computer device is a battery powered mobile device.

9. The computer system of claim 7, wherein the switch of the wireless service from running on the first computer device to running the second computer device causes a reduction in a number of wireless communications between the first computer device and the first wireless service, thereby preserving battery life of the first computer device while it is in low battery condition.

10. The computer system of claim 7, wherein:

the wireless service is an internet service; and

the internet service includes at least one of the following types of internet services;

email, rich site summary (RSS) feeds, social networking updates, texting applications that use internet connections, instant messaging service, internet telephony applications, internet provider services, internet based media editing, web browsing, and/or multimedia uploading or downloading.

11. The computer system of claim 7 wherein the switching of the wireless service from running on the first computer device to the second computer device includes shutting off wireless transceiver hardware of the first computer device.

12. The computer system of claim 7 wherein the first wireless service is a cloud account of the first user.