Inactive application restarting

• US 10,445,165 B2
• Filed: 08/21/2017
• Issued: 10/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Fong, Chee Keat, Dinh, Phuc
• Primary Examiner(s): Maskulinski, Michael
• Application Number:
  US15/681,600
• Publication Number:
  US 20190056986A1
• Time in Patent Office: 785 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0742 in a data processing system embedded in a mobile device, e.g. mobile phones, handheld devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0757 by exceeding a time limit, i.e. time-out, e.g. watchdogs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1402 Saving, restoring, recovering or retrying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1438 Restarting or rejuvenating
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3612 by runtime analysis performance monitoring G06F11/3466
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/10 Active monitoring, e.g. heartbeat, ping or trace-route
• 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: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/005 Transmission of information for alerting of incoming communication

Abstract

Examples associated with inactive application restarting are described. One example method includes establishing a connection between a host device and a remote device. The connection is used for communications between the host device and an application on the remote device. An inactive state of the application is detected on the remote device. A message is transmitted to the remote device to notify a user to restart the application. A user interaction with the message restarts the application.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

establishing, by a host device, a connection between the host device and a remote device, where the connection is used for communications between the host device and an application on the remote device;

detecting an inactive state of the application on the remote device; and

transmitting a message to the remote device to notify a user to restart the application, where the message will restart the application when the user interacts with the message.

2. The method of claim 1, where the host device is a personal computer, where the remote device is a mobile device.

3. The method of claim 1, where the application allows the host device to detect a physical presence of the remote device to cause the host device to grant access to a feature of the host device to the user when the physical presence of the remote device is detected.

4. The method of claim 1, where connection is a Bluetooth connection, and where detecting the inactive state of the application includes attempting to communicate with the application on the remote device using the Bluetooth connection.

5. The method of claim 1, where the message is a push notification.

6. The method of claim 1, where the host device is a server, where the remote device is a mobile device, where the connection is a network connection, and where the server detects the inactive state of the application when the server fails to receive a periodic communication from the application over the network connection.

7. The method of claim 6, where the application is a mobile exercise application that tracks activity levels of a user of the mobile device and transmits activity level data to the server at periodic intervals, and where the server transmits the message to the mobile device when the server has not received a predefined number of updates from the mobile device regarding user activity levels.

8. A system, comprising:

a registration module to create a profile associated with a mobile device, where the profile associates the mobile device with an application on the mobile device, and where the profile facilitates communication between the system and the application;

a communication module to periodically communicate with the mobile device, and where communicating with the mobile device indicates a status of the application; and

a reboot module to transmit, when the status of the application indicates the application is inactive, a message to a user of the mobile device to restart the application, where the message, when interacted with by the user, controls the mobile device to restart the application.

9. The system of claim 8, where the registration module is a Bluetooth pairing module, and where the communication module is a Bluetooth low energy communication module.

10. The system of claim 8, where the message is a push notification.

11. The system of claim 10, where the push notification causes the mobile device to at least one of, make noise and vibrate.

12. The system of claim 8, comprising a verification module to verify a presence of an authenticated user of the system when the communication module detects the mobile device is within a predefined physical proximity to the system and the application is active and provides a credential to the communication module.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing processor executable instructions that, when executed, control a processor to:

register, by a personal computer, a connection between the personal computer and a mobile device, where the connection is used for communications between the personal computer and an application on the mobile device;

grant access to a feature of the personal computer when the personal computer detects the mobile device is within a predefined distance of the personal computer and when the personal computer receives an authenticating signal from the application;

detect an inactive state of the application on the mobile device; and

transmit a message to the mobile device to notify a user of the mobile device to restart the application, where the message will restart the application when the user interacts with the message.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 13, where the connection is a Bluetooth low energy pairing between the personal computer and the mobile device.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 13, where the message is a push notification.