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DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT OF KEEP-ALIVE MESSAGE INTERVALS IN A MOBILE NETWORK

  • US 20120008536A1
  • Filed: 03/08/2011
  • Published: 01/12/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/11/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of maintaining an IP connection between a mobile terminal and a network nodeover a network, comprising:

  • detecting a rate with which the client-slide request are made from the mobile terminal;

    dynamically adjusting time intervals between the keep-alive messages sent to the mobile terminal based on the rate with which the client-side requests are made;

    sending, by the network node, keep-alive messages to the mobile terminal in an absence of network traffic through the IP connection between the mobile terminal and the network node;

    further optimizing the time intervals between the keep-alive messages based on a cost to send the keep-alive messages in the network.

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