Device actions based on device power

• US 10,136,267 B2
• Filed: 02/11/2015
• Issued: 11/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Tal, Eran, Schillings, Benoit M., Toksvig, Michael John McKenzie, Garcia, David Harry
• Primary Examiner(s): Mian, Omer S
• Application Number:
  US14/619,918
• Publication Number:
  US 20150156613A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,378 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• 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 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/203 for converged personal network application service interworking, e.g. OMA converged personal network services [CPNS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0225 using monitoring of external events, e.g. the presence of a signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0251 using monitoring of local events, e.g. events related to user activity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0261 managing power supply demand, e.g. depending on battery level
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

In one embodiment, one or more computing devices determine, substantially in real time and locally at a mobile device, one or more current dynamic operating conditions of the mobile device related to energy consumption by the mobile device. The computing devices identify a pre-determined device state that corresponds to the current dynamic operating conditions of the mobile device and determine, based at least in part on the pre-determined device state, an action for the mobile device to take, the action being related to energy consumption by the mobile device.

Claims

1. A method comprising, by a server computing device:

receiving a message indicating a current notification mode of a mobile computing device, wherein the received message comprises one or more operating conditions of the mobile computing device, the operating conditions comprise a user interface mode of the mobile computing device, and the current notification mode is based at least in part on the operating conditions of the mobile computing device, wherein the user interface mode comprises a level of activity of a user with respect to the mobile computing device, and the level of activity of the user indicates a first rate at which the user is interacting with the mobile computing device;

determining, based on the user interface mode, the current notification mode of the mobile computing device, wherein, when the level of activity indicates that the user is interacting with the mobile device at a second rate above a first threshold, the current notification mode comprises a first notification mode in which a first number of outgoing messages that are sent to the mobile device is equal to or higher than a second threshold, and

when the level of activity indicates that the user is interacting with the mobile device at a third rate below the first threshold, the current notification mode comprises a second notification mode in which a second number of outgoing messages that are sent to the mobile device is lower than the second threshold;

determining, based at least in part on the current notification mode of the mobile computing device and an affinity score assigned to an outgoing message, whether to send the outgoing message to the mobile computing device at a given time, wherein the affinity score is proportional to a social affinity between the user and an originator of the outgoing message;

in response to the current notification mode, sending the outgoing message to the mobile device at the given time, in response to comprising the first notification mode the current notification mode comprising the second notification mode and the affinity score being equal to or higher than a third threshold, sending the outgoing message to the mobile computing device at the given time, and

in response to the current notification mode comprising the second notification mode and the affinity score being lower than the third threshold, blocking the outgoing message from being sent at the given time.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more operating conditions of the mobile computing device comprise a power state of the mobile computing device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more operating conditions of the mobile computing device comprise a connection of the mobile computing device to a wireless network.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more operating conditions of the mobile computing device comprise sensor data from one or more sensors of the mobile computing device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more operating conditions of the mobile computing device comprise a time of day.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the received message identifies the current notification mode of the mobile computing device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the received message comprises a first identification of the one or more operating conditions; and

the determining, based on the received message, the current notification mode comprises determining, based on current operating conditions, the current notification mode of the mobile computing device.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising transmitting to the mobile computing device a second identification of the current notification mode.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining, based on the current notification mode of the mobile computing device, a radio connection for the mobile computing device.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining whether to transmit the outgoing message to the mobile computing device comprises:

determining a value of the outgoing message; and

determining, based at least on the current notification mode of the mobile computing device and the value of the outgoing message, whether to transmit the outgoing message to the mobile computing device.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the user is a user of a social network comprising a social graph, the social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, at least one node in the graph corresponding to the user, at least one node in the social graph corresponding to the originator of the outgoing message;

and the affinity score is based on information represented by one or more of;

the social graph;

or an action store associated with the social network.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the value of the outgoing message is based at least in part on an urgency of the outgoing message.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the value of the outgoing message is based at least in part on a location of the mobile computing device.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

adding the outgoing message to a message queue for the mobile device, each outgoing message in the queue having a score representing the value of the outgoing message;

determining a total score of the outgoing messages in the queue;

comparing the total score to a threshold score; and

when the total score exceeds the threshold score, transmitting to the mobile device the outgoing messages in the queue.

15. The method of claim 14;

wherein the threshold score is based at least in part on one or more of;

the current notification mode of the mobile computing device;

or a power state of the mobile computing device.

16. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media embodying software that is operable when executed by a server computing device to;

receive a message indicating a current notification mode of a mobile computing device, wherein the received message comprises one or more operating conditions of the mobile computing device, the operating conditions comprise a user interface mode of the mobile computing device, and the current notification mode is based at least in part on the operating conditions of the mobile computing device, wherein the user interface mode comprises a level of activity of a user with respect to the mobile computing device, and the level of activity of the user indicates a first rate at which the user is interacting with the mobile computing device;

determine, based on the user interface mode, a current notification mode of the mobile computing device, wherein, when the level of activity indicates that the user is interacting with the mobile device at a second rate above a first threshold, the current notification mode comprises a first notification mode in which a first number of outgoing messages that are sent to the mobile device is equal to or higher than a second threshold, and

when the level of activity indicates that the user is interacting with the mobile device at a third rate below the first threshold, the current notification mode comprises a second notification mode in which a second number of outgoing messages that are sent to the mobile device is lower than the second threshold;

determine, based at least in part on the current notification mode of the mobile computing device and an affinity score assigned to an outgoing message, whether to send the outgoing message to the mobile computing device at a given time, wherein the affinity score is proportional to a social affinity between the user and an originator of the outgoing message;

in response to the current notification mode comprising the first notification mode, send the outgoing message to the mobile device at the given time, in response to the current notification mode comprising the second notification mode and the affinity score being equal to or higher than a third threshold, send the outgoing message to the mobile computing device at the given time, and

in response to the current notification mode comprising the second notification mode and the affinity score being lower than the third threshold, block the outgoing message from being sent at the given time.

17. A system comprising:

one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media embodying instructions;

one or more processors coupled to the storage media and operable to execute the instructions to;

receive a message indicating a current notification mode of a mobile computing device, wherein the received message comprises one or more operating conditions of the mobile computing device, the operating conditions comprise a user interface mode of the mobile computing device, and the current notification mode is based at least in part on the operating conditions of the mobile computing device, wherein the user interface mode comprises a level of activity of a user with respect to the mobile computing device, and the level of activity of the user indicates a first rate at which the user is interacting with the mobile computing device;

determine, based on the user interface mode, a current notification mode of the mobile computing device, wherein, when the level of activity indicates that the user is interacting with the mobile device at a second rate above a first threshold, the current notification mode comprises a first notification mode in which a first number of outgoing messages that are sent to the mobile device is equal to or higher than a second threshold, and when the level of activity indicates that the user is interacting with the mobile device at a third rate below the first threshold, the current notification mode comprises a second notification mode in which a second number of outgoing messages that are sent to the mobile device is lower than the second threshold;

determine, based at least in part on the current notification mode of the mobile computing device and an affinity score assigned to an outgoing message, whether to send the outgoing message to the mobile computing device at a given time, wherein the affinity score is proportional to a social affinity between the user and an originator of the outgoing message;

in response to the current notification mode comprising the first notification mode, send the outgoing message to the mobile device at the given time, in response to the current notification mode comprising the second notification mode and the affinity score being equal to or higher than a third threshold, send at the given time the outgoing message to the mobile computing device at the given time, and

in response to the current notification mode comprising the second notification mode and the affinity score being lower than the third threshold, block the outgoing message from being sent at the given time.