Systems and methods for controlling application updates across a wireless interface

• US 10,268,469 B2
• Filed: 11/04/2016
• Issued: 04/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Cooley, James W., Tucker, Neal E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Mongbao
• Application Number:
  US15/344,415
• Publication Number:
  US 20170075680A1
• Time in Patent Office: 900 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/252 between a Database Management System and a front-end application
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/656 while running

Abstract

Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for managing connections between a mobile device and a network server over a network connection in a bandwidth-efficient manner. In one embodiment, a mobile device includes a processor, and there are a plurality of services executed by the processor, each of the services receiving information updates over a network connection from a server. At least one update interval function executed by the processor assigns an update interval to each of the services, the update intervals governing when each of the respective services request updated information over the network connection.

Claims

1. A method executable at an electronic device with one or more processors, the method comprising:

without user interaction, dynamically adjusting a priority of a respective application, relative to a priority of another application on the electronic device, for requesting updated application data over a network connection, including dynamically adjusting an update interval governing when the respective application requests updated application data over the network connection, wherein the dynamic adjusting of the update interval for the respective application is based at least on one or more factors of the group consisting of;

a probability of using the respective application, and

whether the respective application is to be updated with one or more additional applications as a group; and

retrieving updated application data over the network connection, wherein the updated application data are retrieved according to the adjusted update interval.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic device is a mobile device having a touchscreen display.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the electronic device includes a display; and

a view on the display changes in response to a selection of the application.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the dynamic adjusting of the update interval for the application is further based on information indicating whether the other applications are set to be updated at a same time as the respective application.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein a first application included in the group is selected at a different time from a second application included in the group.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether a second application has a higher update priority than an update priority of the application;

in accordance with the higher update priority of the second application, retrieving updated application data for the second application prior to retrieving the updated application data for the application.

7. An electronic device, comprising:

one or more processors;

memory; and

one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for;

without user interaction, dynamically adjusting a priority of a respective application, relative to a priority of another application on the electronic device, for requesting updated application data over a network connection, including dynamically adjusting an update interval governing when the respective application requests updated application data over the network connection, wherein the dynamic adjusting of the update interval for the respective application is based at least on one or more factors of the group consisting of;

a probability of using the respective application, and

whether the respective application is to be updated with one or more other additional applications as a group; and

retrieving updated application data over the network connection, wherein the updated application data are retrieved according to the adjusted update interval.

8. The electronic device of claim 7, wherein the electronic device is a mobile device having a touchscreen display.

9. The electronic device of claim 7, wherein:

the electronic device includes a display; and

a view on the display changes in response to a selection of the application.

10. The electronic device of claim 7, wherein the dynamic adjusting of the update interval for the respective application is further based on information indicating whether the other applications of the plurality of applications are set to be updated at a same time as the respective application of the plurality of applications.

11. The electronic device of claim 7, wherein a first application included in the group is selected at a different time from a second application included in the group.

12. The electronic device of claim 7, the one or more programs further including instructions for:

determining whether a second application has a higher update priority than an update priority of the application;

in accordance with the higher update priority of the second application, retrieving updated application data for the second application prior to retrieving the updated application data for the application.

13. A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions, when executed by an electronic device with one or more processors, cause the processors to perform operations comprising:

without user interaction, dynamically adjusting a priority of a respective application, relative to a priority of another application on the electronic device, for requesting updated application data over a network connection, including dynamically adjusting an update interval governing when the respective application requests updated application data over the network connection, wherein the dynamic adjusting of the update interval for the respective application is based at least on one or more factors of the group consisting of;

a probability of using the respective application, and

whether the respective application is to be updated with one or more additional applications as a group; and

retrieving updated application data over the network connection, wherein the updated application data are retrieved according to the adjusted update interval.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 13, wherein the electronic device is a mobile device having a touchscreen display.

15. The computer readable medium of claim 14, wherein an application is displayed on the touchscreen display as an icon, and the icon is selectable by a touch gesture on the touchscreen display.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 13, wherein:

the electronic device includes a display; and

a view on the display changes in response to a selection of the application.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 13, wherein the dynamic adjusting of the update interval for the respective application is further based on information indicating whether the other applications are set to be updated at a same time as the respective application.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 13, wherein multiple applications are included in the group.

19. The computer readable medium of claim 13, wherein a first application included in the group is selected at a different time from a second application included in the group.

20. The computer readable medium of claim 13, further including instructions that cause the processors to perform operations comprising:

determining whether a second application has a higher update priority than an update priority of the application;

in accordance with the higher update priority of the second application, retrieving updated application data for the second application prior to retrieving the updated application data for the application.