MOBILE DEVICE RADIO USE OPTIMIZATION BY BATCHING LOW PRIORITY REQUESTS

• US 20120157170A1
• Filed: 02/28/2012
• Published: 06/21/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seven Networks LLC (FIG LLC (d/b/a Fortress Investment Group LLC))
• Original Assignee: Seven Networks Inc
• Inventors: Backholm, Ari, Luna, Michael
• Application Number:
  US13/407,406
• Publication Number:
  US 20120157170A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/574
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3231 Monitoring the presence, absence or movement of users
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3278 Power saving in modem or I/O interface
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3287 by switching off individual functional units in the computer system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/12 Arrangements for remote connection or disconnection of substations or of equipment thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/00 Power management, e.g. TPC [Transmission Power Control], power saving or power classes gain control in transmitters or power amplifiers H03G3/3042
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/02 Power saving arrangements in wired systems H04L12/12; signaling of mobile application services, e.g. low battery notifications H04W4/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0219 where the power saving management affects multiple terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0222 in packet switched networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0229 where the received signal is a wanted signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0235 where the received signal is a power saving command
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0254 detecting a user operation or a tactile contact or a motion of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0258 controlling an operation mode according to history or models of usage information, e.g. activity schedule or time of day
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0261 managing power supply demand, e.g. depending on battery level
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

Systems and methods of context aware traffic management for network and device resource conservation are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for using characteristics of user activity on the mobile device to locally adjust behavior of the mobile device to optimize battery consumption on the mobile device, using characteristics of user activity on the mobile device to locally adjust behavior of the mobile device to optimize battery consumption on the mobile device, and/or using characteristics of user activity on the mobile device to locally adjust behavior of the mobile device to optimize battery consumption on the mobile device.

Claims

1. A method of conserving battery consumption on a mobile device, the method, comprising:

adjusting operation at the mobile device to optimize battery consumption absent user activity at the mobile device;

wherein, the operation is adjusted by;

intercepting transactions by mobile applications on the mobile device in the absence of user activity; and

preventing at least a portion of the transactions from accessing a network.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein,

the adjustment of the operation of the mobile device comprises adjusting use of radio on the mobile device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein, access of the network is prevented by preventing access or use of the radio on the mobile device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein, when the characteristics of the user activity indicate that the user is subsequently active, the modifying of the communication frequency with the mobile device includes sending data buffered as a result of decreased communication frequency, to the mobile device.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising, waiting to send at least the portion of transactions from the mobile device until occurrence of a trigger event.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein, the trigger event includes, user activity.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the trigger event includes, presence or power-on of backlight.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein, the trigger event includes, key presses, or touch screen activities at the mobile device.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising, waiting to send at least the portion of transactions from the mobile device until after a period of time.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein, the period of time is determined from the length of time absent the user activity at the mobile device.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein, the transactions include background requests of one or more of the mobile applications.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein, the transactions include low priority transactions of one or more of the mobile applications.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein, the low priority transactions include, one or more of, updating message status as being read, unread, and deleting of messages.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising, identifying the at least the portion of transactions as being the low priority transactions;

aggregating the low priority transactions for batch transfer from the mobile device.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising,

detecting characteristics of user activity at the mobile device;

using characteristics of the user activity at the mobile device to locally adjust radio use on the mobile device.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein, when the characteristics of the user activity indicate that the user is subsequently active, radio use is adjusted to send the at least the portion of the transactions buffered as a result of the intercepting, over the network.

17. The method of claim 1, using characteristics of the transactions to adjust radio use on the mobile device;

wherein, the characteristics of transactions include time criticality of the transactions.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein, a low power radio mode or a high power radio mode is selected for use on the mobile device based on the time criticality of the transactions.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein, the time critical transaction includes a transaction resulting from a user-initiated data transfer.

20. A method of conserving battery consumption on a mobile device during user inactivity, the method, comprising:

identifying during user inactivity at the mobile device, transactions initiated by mobile applications as being the low priority transactions;

aggregating transactions for batch transfer from the mobile device;

wherein, the transactions are detected during a period of user inactivity at the mobile device;

wherein, the transactions are intercepted and prevented from accessing a network until the occurrence of a trigger event.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein, the trigger event includes, one or more of, presence or power-on of backlight, key presses, or touch screen activities at the mobile device.

22. The method of claim 20, wherein, the mobile applications for which the transactions are prevented are specified by a network operator.

23. A method of optimizing radio use on a mobile device, the method, comprising:

detecting multiple events having a first priority type initiated on the mobile device, when the mobile device is in background mode;

cumulating the multiple events having the first priority type, at least some of which occurred at different instances in time for batched transfer to a server in wireless communication with the mobile device.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein, the background mode is absent user activity at the mobile device with clients which generated the multiple events.

25. The method of claim 23, wherein, the multiple events include background traffic for mobile clients on the mobile device.

26. The method of claim 23, wherein, the batch transfer occurs when interactive traffic is detected at the mobile device.

27. The method of claim 23, wherein, the batch transfer occurs when an event of a second priority type is detected at the mobile device;

wherein the second priority type is of higher priority than the first priority type.

28. The method of claim 23, wherein, the batch transfer from the mobile device occurs when radio use is otherwise triggered at the mobile device.

29. The method of claim 23, wherein, the batched transfer occurs after a period of time.

30. The method of claim 23, wherein, the batch transferring is user configurable to be enabled or disabled.