Techniques for managing idle state activity in mobile devices

• US 10,548,087 B2
• Filed: 04/09/2018
• Issued: 01/28/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Wang, Shaocheng, Venkatachalam, Muthaiah, Yang, Xiangying
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Mahendra R
• Application Number:
  US15/948,907
• Publication Number:
  US 20180227852A1
• Time in Patent Office: 659 Days
• Field of Search: 455574, 4554041, 455522, 1 1, 370328, 370338
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/2656 for structure of frame, burst
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/001 the frequencies being arranged in component carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0033 each allocating device acting autonomously, i.e. without negotiation with other allocating devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0048 Allocation of pilot signals, i.e. of signals known to the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0205 at the air interface dynamic wireless traffic scheduling H04W72/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0251 using monitoring of local events, e.g. events related to user activity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/51 based on terminal or device properties
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/52 based on load
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/186 Processing of subscriber group data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/085 Access point devices with remote components

Abstract

An apparatus may comprise a radio-frequency (RF) transceiver and a message aggregation module arranged to intercept multiple messages from one or more mobile data applications during an idle mode of a device, one or more of the multiple messages operable to trigger a transition of the device from the idle mode to a connected mode by causing a radio resource control message to be sent from the device to a radio access network, the message aggregation module to store the multiple messages in a buffer associated with the one or more mobile data applications in order to maintain the device in the idle mode, and schedule for transmission by the RF transceiver the stored messages at a defined time instance based on a delay tolerance for the one or more mobile data applications when the device is in the connected mode. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

at least one network interface;

at least one memory; and

logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to;

demodulate a received data packet;

identify a mobile data application associated with the data packet;

determine a content type of the data packet;

prioritize the data packet based on the mobile data application associated with the data packet and the content type of the data packet; and

determine whether to store the data packet for subsequent transmission based on a message type associated with the data packet.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, the logic to determine whether to delay a delivery of the data packet based on the mobile data application associated with the data packet.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, the mobile data application to comprise a social networking application.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, the logic to defer a push service for delivery of the data packet based on a determination that the mobile data application comprises the social networking application.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, the logic to determine whether to store the data packet for subsequent transmission in response to a determination that the data packet is associated with a keep-alive message type.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, the logic to determine to store the data packet for subsequent transmission in response to a determination that the data packet is associated with a status update message type.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, comprising at least one processor circuit.

8. At least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising a set of instructions that, in response to being executed on a computing device, cause the computing device to:

demodulate a received data packet;

identify a mobile data application associated with the data packet;

determine a content type of the data packet;

prioritize the data packet based on the mobile data application associated with the data packet and the content type of the data packet; and

determine whether to store the data packet for subsequent transmission based on a message type associated with the data packet.

9. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, comprising instructions that, in response to being executed on the computing device, cause the computing device to determine whether to delay a delivery of the data packet based on the mobile data application associated with the data packet.

10. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, the mobile data application to comprise a social networking application.

11. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, comprising instructions that, in response to being executed on the computing device, cause the computing device to defer a push service for delivery of the data packet based on a determination that the mobile data application comprises a social networking application.

12. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, comprising instructions that, in response to being executed on the computing device, cause the computing device to determine to store the data packet for subsequent transmission in response to a determination that the data packet is associated with a status update message type.

13. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, comprising instructions that, in response to being executed on the computing device, cause the computing device to aggregate the data packet for subsequent delivery with one or more additional status update messages.

14. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, comprising instructions that, in response to being executed on the computing device, cause the computing device to determine to store the data packet for subsequent transmission in response to a determination that the data packet is associated with a keep-alive message type.

15. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, comprising instructions that, in response to being executed on the computing device, cause the computing device to schedule the message for immediate delivery in response to a determination that the message type associated with the data packet does not comprise a keep-alive message type or a status update message type.

16. A method, comprising:

demodulating a received data packet;

identifying a mobile data application associated with the data packet;

determining a content type of the data packet;

prioritizing the data packet based on the mobile data application associated with the data packet and the content type of the data packet; and

determining whether to store the data packet for subsequent transmission based on a message type associated with the data packet.

17. The method of claim 16, comprising determining whether to delay a delivery of the data packet based on the mobile data application associated with the data packet.

18. The method of claim 16, the mobile data application to comprise a social networking application.

19. The method of claim 16, comprising deferring a push service for delivery of the data packet based on a determination that the mobile data application comprises a social networking application.

20. The method of claim 16, comprising determining to store the data packet for subsequent transmission in response to a determination that the data packet is associated with a status update message type.

21. The method of claim 20, comprising aggregating the data packet for subsequent delivery with one or more additional status update messages.

22. The method of claim 16, comprising determining to store the data packet for subsequent transmission in response to a determination that the data packet is associated with a keep-alive message type.

23. The method of claim 16, comprising scheduling the message for immediate delivery in response to a determination that the message type associated with the data packet does not comprise a keep-alive message type or a status update message type.