MITIGATING DATA USAGE IN MESSAGING APPLICATIONS

• US 20080084977A1
• Filed: 10/10/2006
• Published: 04/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Nayak, Niranjan S., Garg, Neeraj K.
• Granted Patent: US 8,015,249 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/130
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/00 Arrangements for metering, time-control or time indication ; Metering, charging or billing arrangements for voice wireline or wireless communications, e.g. VoIP

Abstract

Data usage of a messaging application is mitigated based on a location of the application on the display screen or a mode of a device. If the location of the application is in the foreground of the display, presence update information of a contact is periodically received or requested. If the application is in the background of the display longer than a predetermined interval, the presence update information of the contact is stopped. In some embodiments, if the device is in an OFF or a SUSPEND mode, contact presence updates are not received. When the device is in an ON mode or state, the presence updates are received or requested from a server or presence agent.

Claims

1. A system for mitigating data usage in a messaging application, comprising:

a register component that registers a device with a presence agent to monitor at least one contact, the presence agent provides periodic presence updates to the device;

an usage monitor component that monitors usage of the device; and

an activation component that selectively deactivates the registration of the device when the monitored usage indicates that the at least one contact should no longer be monitored.

2. The system of claim 1, the usage of the device is one of a suspend mode and a background mode.

3. The system of claim 1, the activation component selectively reactivates the registration of the device when the monitored usage indicates that the at least one contact should be monitored.

4. The system of claim 1, the usage of the device is a location of the messaging application in a display screen of the device.

5. The system of claim 4, a location in a background of the display screen indicates the at least one contact should no longer be monitored and a location in a foreground of the display screen indicates the at least one contact should be monitored.

6. The system of claim 1, the usage of the device is one of an ON mode, an OFF mode, and a suspend mode.

7. The system of claim 6, the OFF mode and the SUSPEND mode indicate the at least one contact should no longer be monitored and the ON mode indicates the at least one contact should be monitored.

8. The system of claim 1, the activation component selectively deactivates the registration of the device for a subset of a plurality of contacts.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising a machine learning component that automates a deactivation or a reactivation.

10. The system of claim 9, the machine learning component employs at least one of an artificial-intelligence based scheme and a rules-based logic scheme.

11. A method for selectively mitigating bandwidth usage during messaging activities, comprising:

sending a subscribe message that indicates at least one contact to monitor;

receiving periodic updates regarding a presence of the at least one contact;

monitoring an activity of a device; and

sending an unsubscribe message if the monitored activity indicates that periodic updates should not be received.

12. The method of claim 11, monitoring the activity of the device, comprising:

detecting when a monitoring application is sent to a background of a display screen;

tracking an amount of time the messaging application is in the background until a threshold time has expired; and

inferring that the periodic updates should not be received if the messaging application is in the background of the display longer than the threshold time.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

monitoring a location of the messaging application; and

sending a resubscribe message if the messaging application is brought to the foreground of a display screen.

14. The method of claim 11, monitoring activity of the device, comprising:

determining if the device is in a SUSPEND state, an OFF state, or an ON state; and

sending the unsubscribe message if the device is in the SUSPEND state or the OFF state.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving notification that the device is in the ON state; and

sending a resubscribe message to receive periodic updates.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising sending contact information along with the at least one contact to monitor, the contact information includes at least one of a contact type, a contact importance, and a communication importance;

and

selectively sending an unsubscribe message for a subset of a plurality of contacts if the monitored activity indicates that periodic updates should not be received.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising selectively sending a resubscribe message for at least a second subset of the plurality of contacts if the monitored activity indicates that periodic updates should be received.

18. A computer executable system that mitigates data usage for a real-time messaging application, comprising:

means for registering a device with a presence server to monitor a plurality of contacts;

means for inferring whether a presence information of at least one contact of the plurality of contacts should no longer be monitored; and

means for stopping receipt of the presence information for the at least one contact of the plurality of contacts.

19. The system of claim 18, further comprising means for restarting receipt of the presence information for the at least one contact of the plurality of contacts.

20. The system of claim 18, further comprising means for selecting the at least one contact from the plurality of contacts based on at least one of a contact name, a contact type, a contact importance, and a communication importance.