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

• US 10,638,499 B2
• Filed: 04/18/2019
• Issued: 04/28/2020
• 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:
  US16/388,789
• Publication Number:
  US 20190254048A1
• Time in Patent Office: 376 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 at least partially overlaps a second jitter time window associated with a second data transfer based on first jitter information associated with the first jitter time window and second jitter information associated with the second jitter time window; and

based on a 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 a device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the result is a first result, and wherein the method further comprises:

comparing, by the system, the first jitter information to the second jitter information, wherein the first jitter information defines the first jitter time window, wherein the second jitter information defines the second jitter time window, and wherein the determining whether the first jitter time window at least partially overlaps the second jitter time window comprises determining whether the first jitter time window at least partially overlaps the second jitter time window based on a second result of the comparing.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

scheduling, by the system, the transmission of the data burst, in response to determining whether the first data transfer and the second data transfer are to be grouped to form the data burst; and

transmitting, by the system, the data burst based on the scheduling.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the device is a first device, wherein the result is a first result, and wherein the method further comprises:

in response to determining that the first jitter time window at least partially overlaps the second jitter time window, determining, by the system, that the first data transfer and the second data transfer are to be grouped to form the data burst, wherein the scheduling comprises scheduling the transmission of the data burst, comprising the first data transfer and the second data transfer, and wherein the transmitting the data burst comprises communicating the data burst between the first device and at least a second device.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying, by the system, data transfer parameters associated with data transfers, comprising the first data transfer and the second data transfer; and

analyzing, by the system, the data transfer parameters, comprising the first jitter information and the second jitter information, to generate an analysis result, wherein the determining whether the first jitter time window at least partially overlaps the second jitter time window comprises determining whether the first jitter time window at least partially overlaps the second jitter time window based on the analysis result.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first data transfer is a periodic data transfer, a non-periodic data transfer, or a one-time data transfer.

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

adjusting, 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.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the first data transfer is the periodic data transfer, and wherein the second data transfer is the non-periodic data transfer or the one-time data transfer.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the first data transfer is the periodic data transfer, and wherein the periodic data transfer is 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, or a pull data transfer that facilitates obtaining data from a server device.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the first data transfer is the non-periodic data transfer, and wherein the non-periodic data transfer is 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, or a push notification data transfer that facilitates presentation of data to the device.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

controlling, by the system, a tail time for transition of the device from a higher power communication state to a lower power communication state based on respective data transfer parameters associated with respective data transfers, comprising the first data transfer and the second data transfer.

12. 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 first data at least partially coincides with a second jitter time period associated with second data based on first jitter data associated with the first jitter time period and second jitter data associated with the second jitter time period; and

based on a 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 and the second data are to be bundled to form a data burst for communication in connection with a device.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the result is a first result, and wherein the operations further comprise:

comparing the first jitter data to the second jitter data, wherein the first jitter data defines the first jitter time period, wherein the second jitter data defines the second jitter time period, and wherein the determining whether the first jitter time period at least partially coincides with the second jitter time period comprises determining whether the first jitter time period at least partially coincides with the second jitter time period based on a second result of the comparing.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the result is a first result, and wherein the operations further comprise:

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

communicating the data burst in accordance with the scheduling.

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

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

16. The system of claim 12, wherein a first data transfer comprises the first data, and wherein the first data transfer is a periodic data transfer, an aperiodic data transfer, or a one-time data transfer.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein a second data transfer comprises the second data, wherein the first data transfer is the periodic data transfer, and wherein the second data transfer is the aperiodic data transfer or the one-time data transfer.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the periodic data transfer is 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 device consumed during a particular time period, an advertisement data transfer that comprises advertisement data, or a pull data transfer that facilitates obtaining data from a server device, or

wherein the aperiodic data transfer is an audio data transfer comprising audio content from an audio stream, a video data transfer comprising video content from a video stream, or a push notification data transfer that facilitates presentation of data to the 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 at least partially corresponds to a second jitter time period associated with a second data transfer based on first jitter information associated with the first jitter time period and second jitter information associated with the second jitter time period; and

based on a 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 a first device and at least a second device.

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

in response to determining that the first jitter time period at least partially overlaps the second jitter time period, determining that the first data transfer and the second data transfer are to be grouped to form the data burst; and

transmitting the data burst between the first device and at least the second device.