METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WIRELESS DEVICE RECONNECTION HANDLING

• US 20090271517A1
• Filed: 04/25/2008
• Published: 10/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: FuzeBox, Inc.
• Original Assignee: WebMessenger, Inc. (FuzeBox, Inc.)
• Inventors: Naylor, Joe G., Bankov, Nikolay Borisov, Emilov, George
• Application Number:
  US12/110,254
• Publication Number:
  US 20090271517A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/227
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/28 Timers or timing mechanisms used in protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/19 Connection re-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/25 Maintenance of established connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/27 Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states

Abstract

An apparatus and method for wireless device reconnection handling are disclosed involving a keep-alive request being sent from a wireless device to a server based on a first keep-alive time interval. At least one indicator that the keep-alive request has failed is received. A second keep-alive time interval different from the first keep-alive time interval is defined in response to at least one condition being satisfied and in response to the receiving. The defining includes defining the second keep-alive time interval when a response to the keep-alive request is not received from the server within a threshold time period associated with the at least one condition. In addition, the server is associated with a first wireless network. The first keep-alive time interval is defined before the sending based on a preference associated with a server associated with a second wireless network different than the first wireless network.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

sending a keep-alive request from a wireless device to a server based on a first keep-alive time interval;

receiving at least one indicator that the keep-alive request has failed; and

defining a second keep-alive time interval different from the first keep-alive time interval in response to at least one condition being satisfied and in response to the receiving.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the defining includes defining the second keep-alive time interval when a response to the keep-alive request is not received from the server within a threshold time period associated with the at least one condition.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the server is associated with a first wireless network, the method further comprising:

defining the first keep-alive time interval before the sending based on a preference associated with a server associated with a second wireless network different than the first wireless network.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the keep-alive request is a first keep-alive request, the at least one indicator is an indicator that a first communication link has been terminated by the server,

the method further comprising:

establishing a second communication link between the wireless device and the server based on at least one reconnection algorithm; and

sending a second keep-alive request to the server based on the second keep-alive time interval.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the keep-alive request is a first keep-alive request, the sending including sending the first keep-alive request over a first communication link,

the method further comprising:

querying an operating system of the wireless device after the receiving to determine whether the wireless device is in an in-coverage state;

establishing a second communication link between the wireless device and the server in response to the wireless device being in the in-coverage state; and

sending a second keep-alive request to the server based on the second keep-alive time interval.

6. A processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions to cause a processor to perform a process, the code comprising code to:

query an operating system of a wireless device to determine whether the wireless device is in an in-coverage state in response to a timing signal produced by a keep-alive timer, the timing signal configured to trigger a keep-alive request;

receive at least one indicator that the wireless device is in the in-coverage state in response to the query; and

send a request to establish a communication link between the wireless device and a server in response to the at least one indicator.

7. The processor-readable medium of claim 6, the code further comprising code to:

produce a keep-alive request in response to the timing signal and in response to the at least one indicator that the wireless device is in the in-coverage state.

8. The processor-readable medium of claim 6, wherein the communication link is a first communication link, the code to query includes code to query in response to at least one indicator that a second communication link between the wireless device and the server has been terminated.

9. The processor-readable medium of claim 6, wherein the code to query includes code to query after at least one in-coverage indicator produced by the operating system of the wireless device has failed to trigger a reconnection attempt.

10. The processor-readable medium of claim 6, wherein the timing signal is produced based on a dynamically modified keep-alive time interval.

11. The processor-readable medium of claim 6, wherein the code to query includes code to query when the wireless device is in a disconnected state.

12. A method, comprising:

receiving at a wireless device at least one indicator that a first communication link between the wireless device and a server has been established, the first communication link being based on a first communication protocol;

receiving at least one indicator that a second communication link between the wireless device and the server has been terminated, the second communication link being based on a second communication protocol; and

preventing the wireless device from re-establishing the second communication link in response to the at least one indicator that the second communication link has been terminated.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the at least one indicator that the second communication link has been terminated is based on a status of a server socket associated with the second communication link.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the preventing includes preventing until the first communication link has been terminated.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the first communication link is a voice communication link, the second communication link is a data communication link.

16. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

preventing the wireless device from sending a keep-alive request associated with the second communication link to the server in response to the at least one indicator that the second communication link has been terminated.

17. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

sending a notification that the second communication link has been terminated to a user-interface of the wireless device.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein the preventing includes preventing execution of at least one reconnection algorithm.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein the server is associated with a network that supports simultaneous voice communication links and data communication links.