Bundling data transfers and employing tail optimization protocol to manage cellular radio resource utilization

• US 10,306,665 B2
• Filed: 06/23/2017
• Issued: 05/28/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Gerber, Alexandre, Mao, Zhuoqing, Qian, Feng, Sen, Subhabrata, Spatscheck, Oliver, Wang, Zhaoguang
• Primary Examiner(s): Roberts, Brian S
• Assistant Examiner(s): Haque, Abusayeed M
• Application Number:
  US15/632,231
• Publication Number:
  US 20170290043A1
• Time in Patent Office: 704 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS
• 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 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0238 where the received signal is an unwanted signal, e.g. interference or idle signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0251 using monitoring of local events, e.g. events related to user activity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/52 based on load
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/20 Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/00 Reducing energy consumption in communication networks
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

To facilitate increasing power and resource efficiency of a mobile device, in the mobile device, with regard to periodic or one-time data transfers, a communication management component can analyze information comprising data transfer parameter information, including jitter information, associated with each application of a subset of applications used by the device and can desirably schedule and/or bundle data transfers associated with the applications to reduce the number of separate data bursts to transfer that data to thereby reduce use of wireless resources and power consumption by the device. A push notification system can receive respective jitter information associated with each application from the mobile device, and the push notification system can desirably schedule and/or bundle push notifications to reduce the number of separate data bursts sent to the device to reduce use of wireless resources and power consumption by the device.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

determining, by a system comprising a processor, whether a first jitter time window associated with a first data transfer of data transfers at least partially overlaps a second jitter time window associated with a second data transfer of the data transfers based on a first result of comparing first jitter information that defines the first jitter time window and second jitter information that defines the second jitter time window, wherein the data transfers are associated with a device; and

based on a second result of the determining whether the first jitter time window at least partially overlaps the second jitter time window, determining, by the system, whether the first data transfer and the second data transfer are to be grouped to form a data burst for transmission in connection with the device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

scheduling, by the system, the transmission of the data burst, based on a third result of determining whether the first data transfer and the second data transfer are to be grouped to form the data burst.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the device is a first device, wherein the scheduling comprises scheduling the transmission of the data burst, comprising the first data transfer and the second data transfer, in response to the third result being determined to indicate that the first data transfer and the second data transfer are to be grouped to form the data burst based on the second result indicating being determined to indicate that the first jitter time window at least partially overlaps the second jitter time window, and wherein the transmission of the data burst in connection with the first device comprises communicating the data burst, comprising the first data transfer and the second data transfer, between the first device and at least a second device.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

transmitting, by the system, the data burst in accordance with the scheduling.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the data transfers comprise at least one member from a first group comprising a periodic data transfer, a non-periodic data transfer, and a one-time data transfer.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the first data transfer is the periodic data transfer, and wherein the method further comprises:

modifying, by the system, a periodicity parameter associated with periodic data transfers, comprising the periodic data transfer, associated with an application to modify a periodicity of communicating respective periodic data transfers of the periodic data transfers, to facilitate controlling communication of data bursts, comprising the data burst, in connection with the device.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the first data transfer is the periodic data transfer and the second data transfer is a member of the first group other than the periodic data transfer.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the periodic data transfer is one periodic data transfer of multiple periodic data transfers that respectively are communicated at regular time intervals based on a periodicity parameter.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein the periodic data transfer is one from a second group comprising a connection maintenance data transfer to facilitate maintaining a communication connection on a communication channel, a measurement data transfer that facilitates a measurement of a consumption of content, a logging data transfer that indicates information the device was consuming during a particular time period, an advertisement data transfer that comprises advertisement information, and a pull data transfer that facilitates obtaining data from a server.

10. The method of claim 5, wherein the non-periodic data transfer is one from a second group comprising an audio data transfer comprising an audio portion of audio content from an audio stream, a video data transfer comprising a video portion of video content from a video stream, and a push notification data transfer that facilitates presentation of data to the device.

11. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising;

determining whether a first jitter time period associated with a first data transfer of data transfers at least partially coincides with a second jitter time period associated with a second data transfer of the data transfers based on a first result of a comparison of first jitter data that defines the first jitter time period and second jitter data that defines the second jitter time period, wherein the data transfers are associated with a first device; and

based on a second result of the determining whether the first jitter time period at least partially coincides with the second jitter time period, determining whether the first data transfer and the second data transfer are to be bundled to form a data burst for communication between the first device and at least a second device.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise:

scheduling the communication of the data burst, based on a third result of determining whether the first data transfer and the second data transfer are to be bundled to form the data burst.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the scheduling comprises scheduling the communication of the data burst, comprising the first data transfer and the second data transfer, in response to the third result indicating that the first data transfer and the second data transfer are to be bundled to form the data burst based on the second result indicating that the first jitter time period at least partially coincides with the second jitter time period.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise:

communicating the data burst based on the scheduling of the communication of the data burst.

15. The system of claim 11, further comprising:

modifying, by the system, a jitter parameter associated with a portion of the data transfers, comprising the first data transfer, associated with an application to modify a length of a jitter time associated with respective data transfers of the portion of the data transfers, to facilitate controlling bundling of data bursts, comprising the data burst.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the data transfers comprise at least one member from a first group comprising a periodic data transfer, an aperiodic data transfer, and a one-time data transfer.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the first data transfer is the periodic data transfer and the second data transfer is a member of the first group other than the periodic data transfer.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the periodic data transfer is one from a second group comprising a keepalive data transfer to facilitate maintaining a communication connection on a communication channel, a measurement data transfer that facilitates a measurement of a consumption of content, a logging data transfer that indicates information the first device consumed during a particular time period, an advertisement data transfer that comprises advertisement data, and a pull data transfer that facilitates obtaining data from a server, and

wherein the non-periodic data transfer is one from a third group comprising an audio data transfer comprising audio content from an audio stream, a video data transfer comprising video content from a video stream, and a push notification data transfer that facilitates presentation of data to the first device.

19. A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

determining whether a first jitter time period associated with a first data transfer of data transfers at least partially corresponds to a second jitter time period associated with a second data transfer of the data transfers based on a first result of an evaluation of first jitter information that defines the first jitter time period and second jitter information that defines the second jitter time period, wherein the data transfers are associated with a first device; and

based on a second result of the determining whether the first jitter time period at least partially corresponds to the second jitter time period, determining whether the first data transfer and the second data transfer are to be grouped to form a data burst for transmission between the first device and a second device.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the operation further comprise:

facilitating the transmission of the data burst, comprising the first data transfer and the second data transfer, between the first device and the second device in response to the second result indicating that the first data transfer and the second data transfer are to be grouped to form the data burst based on the first result indicating that the first jitter time period at least partially corresponds to the second jitter time period.