Heartbeat period setting method, and terminal

• US 10,355,963 B2
• Filed: 10/29/2014
• Issued: 07/16/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Deng, Yu, Li, Qilin
• Primary Examiner(s): Luu, Le H
• Application Number:
  US15/523,259
• Publication Number:
  US 20170317910A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,721 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/10 Active monitoring, e.g. heartbeat, ping or trace-route
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/16 Threshold monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/50 Testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/145 avoiding end of session, e.g. keep-alive, heartbeats, resumption message or wake-up for inactive or interrupted session
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/00 Reducing energy consumption in communication networks

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a heartbeat period setting method, including: setting a heartbeat period of a tested application to T2 and performing a first heartbeat test; setting heartbeat periods of multiple applications to T1 if the first heartbeat test is not passed, and performing heartbeat services; or setting the heartbeat period of the tested application to T3 if the first heartbeat test is passed, and performing a second heartbeat test; and setting the heartbeat periods of the multiple applications to T2 if the second heartbeat test is not passed, and performing heartbeat services; or setting the heartbeat period of the tested application to T4 if the second heartbeat test is passed, and performing a third heartbeat test, where T1<T2<T3<T4. The embodiments of the present invention further disclose a corresponding mobile terminal. According to the heartbeat period setting method and the terminal in the embodiments of the present invention, applications perform heartbeat services at a same moment by using a same heartbeat period, so that energy consumption of the terminal and signaling overheads are effectively reduced, and a load on an application server can further be reduced.

Claims

1. A heartbeat period setting method comprising:

setting, by a terminal device, a heartbeat period of a tested application to a time period T2, wherein multiple applications and the tested application are installed in the terminal device;

performing, by the terminal device, a first heartbeat test by using the time period T2 as the heartbeat period;

determining, by the terminal device, whether the first heartbeat test has passed;

setting, by the terminal device, heartbeat periods of multiple applications to a time period T1 if the first heartbeat test has not passed, and then performing, by the terminal device, heartbeat services by using the time period T1 as the heartbeat period, wherein the time period T1 is less than the time period T2, and the time period T1 is a minimum heartbeat period of preset heartbeat periods of the tested application and the multiple applications;

setting, by the terminal device, the heartbeat period of the tested application to a time period T3 if the first heartbeat test has passed, and then performing, by the terminal device, a second heartbeat test by using the time period T3 as the heartbeat period, wherein T2 is less than T3;

determining, by the terminal device, whether the second heartbeat test is passed;

setting, by the terminal device, the heartbeat periods of the multiple applications to the time period T2 if the second heartbeat test has not passed, and then performing, by the terminal device, heartbeat services by using the time period T2 as the heartbeat period; and

setting, by the terminal device, the heartbeat period of the tested application to a time period T4 if the second heartbeat test is passed, and then performing, by the terminal device, a third heartbeat test by using the time period T4 as the heartbeat period, wherein T3 is less than T4.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein

T2=T1+Δ

t;

T3=T2+Δ

t; and

T4=T3+Δ

t,

wherein Δ

t is a time constant.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the method further comprises recording the heartbeat periods that are of the multiple applications.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the first, second or third heartbeat test comprises periodically sending, by the terminal device, a heartbeat packet to an application server corresponding to an application to test whether the application server normally responds to the heartbeat packet by using time periods T2, T3 or T4, respectively.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the tested application is one of the following:

one of the multiple applications that has the minimum preset heartbeat period installed on the terminal, or

a simulation application that is for testing a heartbeat period threshold of a network, and the application does not implement any other substantial service.

6. A heartbeat period setting method comprising:

setting, by a terminal device, a heartbeat period of a tested application to a time period T2, wherein multiple applications and the tested application are installed in the terminal device;

performing, by the terminal device, a first heartbeat test by using the time period T2 as the heartbeat period;

determining, by the terminal device, whether the first heartbeat test is passed;

setting, by terminal device, the heartbeat periods of multiple applications to a time period T1 if the first heartbeat test has not passed, and performing by the terminal device, heartbeat services by using the time period T1 as the heartbeat period, wherein the time period T1 is less than the time period T2, and the time period T1 is a minimum heartbeat period of preset heartbeat periods of the tested application and the multiple applications;

setting, by terminal device, the heartbeat periods of the multiple applications to the time period T2 if the first heartbeat test has passed, and then performing, by the terminal device, a first overall heartbeat test by using the time period T2 as the heartbeat period;

determining, by the terminal device, whether the first overall heartbeat test has passed;

setting, by the terminal device, the heartbeat periods of the multiple applications to the time period T1 if the first overall heartbeat test has not passed, and then performing, by the terminal device, heartbeat services by using T1 as the heartbeat period;

setting, by the terminal device, the heartbeat period of the tested application to a time period T3 if the first overall heartbeat test has passed, and then performing, by the terminal, a second heartbeat test by using the time period T3 as the heartbeat period;

determining, by the terminal device, whether the second heartbeat test has passed;

setting, by the terminal device, the heartbeat periods of the multiple applications to the time period T2 if the second heartbeat test has not passed, and then performing, by the terminal, heartbeat services by using the time period T2 as the heartbeat period;

setting, by the terminal device, the heartbeat periods of the multiple applications to the time period T2 if the second heartbeat test has passed, and then performing, by the terminal device, a second overall heartbeat test by using the time period T2 as the heartbeat period;

determining, by the terminal device, whether the second overall heartbeat test is passed;

setting, by the terminal device, the heartbeat periods of the multiple applications to the time period T2 if the second overall heartbeat test has not passed, and then performing, by the terminal device, heartbeat services by using the time period T2 as the heartbeat period; and

setting, by the terminal device, the heartbeat period of the tested application to the time period T3 if the second overall heartbeat test is passed, and then performing, by the terminal device, a third heartbeat test by using a time period T4 as the heartbeat period.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein

T2=T1+Δ

t;

T3=T2+Δ

t; and

T4=T3+Δ

t,

wherein Δ

t is a time constant.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the first, second or third heartbeat test comprises periodically sending, by the terminal device, a heartbeat packet to an application server corresponding to an application to test whether the application server normally responds to the heartbeat packet by using the time periods T2, T3 or T4, respectively.

9. The method according to claim 6, wherein the method further comprises recording the heartbeat periods of the multiple applications.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the tested application is one of the following:

one of the multiple applications that has the minimum preset heartbeat period installed on the terminal, or

a simulation application for testing a heartbeat period threshold of a network, and the application does not implement any other service.

11. A terminal device comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory storing one or more programs and a first software application, wherein the one or more programs are configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for;

setting, by the terminal device, a heartbeat period of a tested application to a time period T2, wherein multiple applications and the tested application are installed in the terminal device;

performing, by the terminal device, a first heartbeat test by using a time period T2 as the heartbeat period;

determining, by the terminal device, whether the first heartbeat test has passed;

setting, by the terminal device, heartbeat periods of multiple applications to a time period T1 if the first heartbeat test is not passed, and then performing, by the terminal device, heartbeat services by using the time period T1 as the heartbeat period,

wherein the time period T1 is less than the time period T2, and the time period T1 is a minimum heartbeat period of preset heartbeat periods of the tested application and the multiple applications;

setting, by the terminal device, the heartbeat period of the tested application to a time period T3 if the first heartbeat test has passed, and then performing, by the terminal device, a second heartbeat test by using the time period T3 as the heartbeat period, wherein the time period T2 is less than the time period T3;

determining, by the terminal device, whether the second heartbeat test is passed;

setting, by the terminal device, the heartbeat periods of the multiple applications to the time period T2 if the second heartbeat test is not passed, and then performing, by the terminal device, heartbeat services by using the time period T2 as the heartbeat period; and

setting, by the terminal device, the heartbeat period of the tested application to a time period T4 if the second heartbeat test is passed, and then performing, by the terminal device, a third heartbeat test by using the time period T4 as the heartbeat period, wherein the time period T3 is less than the time period T4.

12. The terminal device according to claim 11, wherein

T2=T1+Δ

t;

T3=T2+Δ

t; and

T4=T3+Δ

t,

wherein Δ

t is a time constant.

13. The terminal device according to claim 11, wherein the instructions further comprise recording the heartbeat periods of the multiple applications.

14. The terminal device according to claim 11, wherein the first, second or third heartbeat test comprises periodically sending, by the terminal device, a heartbeat packet to an application server corresponding to an application to test whether the application server normally responds to the heartbeat packet by using the time period T2, T3 or T4, respectively.

15. The terminal device according to claim 11, wherein the tested application is one of the following:

one of the multiple applications that has the minimum preset heartbeat period installed on the terminal, or

the tested application a simulation application for testing a heartbeat period threshold of a network, and the application does not implement any other substantial service.