SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT OF A MULTI-TASKING MOBILE DEVICE

• US 20120254285A1
• Filed: 01/17/2012
• Published: 10/04/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Onavo Mobile Limited (Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.))
• Inventors: TIGER, Roi, ROSEN, Guy, ARIAV, Yuval
• Granted Patent: US 10,481,945 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/202
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/468 Specific access rights for resources, e.g. using capability register
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/20 Traffic policing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/289 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data consumer application, e.g. in same machine, in same home or in same sub-network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/566 Grouping or aggregating service requests, e.g. for unified processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/02 Traffic management, e.g. flow control or congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0261 managing power supply demand, e.g. depending on battery level
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/04 Registration at HLR or HSS [Home Subscriber Server]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A mobile device and method for management of communication from a mobile device capable of multi-tasking. The method includes capturing a request from at least one application executed on the mobile device for data communication through a network interface of the mobile device; identifying the at least one application by interrogation of an operating system of the mobile device; determining for the identified one application data communication access rights; and autonomously communicating through the network interface for the at least one application and independently communicating with the at least one application without interfering with normal operation of the at least one application, when the data communication access rights require regulating bandwidth usage by the at least one application.

Claims

1. A mobile device, comprising:

an interface to a data communication network;

at least one memory unit storing at least one application and a local gateway application communicatively connected to the at least one, the memory unit further stores an operating system that provides to the local gateway application information respective of the at least one application responsive of an interrogation by the local gateway application, wherein the local gateway application is thereby made dynamically aware of the at least one application for identifying functionality of the at least one application and determination of data handling of data to be communicated over the data communication network;

at least one processing unit operative in a multi-tasking mode connected to the at least one memory and connected to the interface for execution of the at least one application and the local gateway application, wherein a data communication attempt by the at least one application through the data communication network is captured by the local gateway application;

wherein the local gateway application is communicatively connected to at least a server serving the at least one application through the interface to the data communication network; and

wherein the local gateway application autonomously emulates communication of the at least one application over the data network from the at least one application based on the dynamic awareness, the at least one application is unaware of existence of the local gateway application.

2. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein identifying functionality is performed autonomously of the at least one application.

3. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein autonomously emulating communication further comprises:

independently handling responses to requests for data communication received from the at least one application and communication on behalf of the at least one application by the local gateway application using the interface to the data communication network.

4. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein autonomously emulating communication comprises at least one of:

monitoring the communication, enforcing a policy on the communication, performing routing of the communication, performing application compression, performing data channel compression, performing encryption, performing authentication.

5. The mobile device of claim 4, wherein enforcing the policy determines at least one of:

rejection of a communication request by the at least one application, allowing a free communication if the at least one application using the interface to a data communication network, performing communication with the interface to a data communication network under the control of the local gateway agent.

6. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein autonomously emulating communication further comprises:

aggregation of communication requests from the at least one application.

7. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the local gateway agent is communicatively coupled to a network component for management of bandwidth consumption of the mobile device.

8. The mobile device of claim 7, wherein the network component is at least one of:

a proxy server, a virtual private network (VPN) server, a traffic shaper, a router, and a network address translator (NAT).

9. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the local gateway application is periodically updated with respect of communication parameters of the at least one application.

10. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is at least one of:

a smart phone and a tablet personal computer (PC).

11. A method for management of communication from a mobile device capable of multi-tasking, comprising:

capturing a request from at least one application executed on the mobile device for data communication through a network interface of the mobile device;

identifying the at least one application by interrogation of an operating system of the mobile device;

determining for the identified one application data communication access rights; and

autonomously communicating through the network interface for the at least one application and independently communicating with the at least one application without interfering with normal operation of the at least one application, when the data communication access rights require regulating bandwidth usage by the at least one application.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein identifying the at least one application is performed autonomously of the at least one application.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein autonomously communicating further comprises:

independently handling responses to requests received from the at least one application and communication on behalf of the at least one application by the local gateway application.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein autonomously communicating further comprises at least one of:

monitoring the communication, enforcing a communication policy on the data communication, performing routing of the communication, performing application compression, performing data channel compression, performing encryption, performing authentication.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein data communication access rights include at least one of:

rejection of a communication request by the at least one application, allowing a free communication if the at least one application using the interface to a data communication network, and regulating the bandwidth usage by the at least one application.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein autonomously communicating further comprises:

aggregating of communication requests from the at least one application.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

communicating with a network component for management of bandwidth consumption of the mobile device.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the network component is any one of:

a proxy server, a virtual private network (VPN) server, a traffic shaper, a router, and a network address translator (NAT).

19. The method of claim 11, wherein the mobile device is at least one of:

a smart phone and a tablet personal computer (PC).

20. A computer software product embedded in a non-transient computer readable medium containing instructions that when executed on the computer perform the method of claim 11.

21. A local gateway application for management of communication from a mobile device capable of multi-tasking, comprising:

a first interface to at least one application executed on the mobile device, wherein the first interface is configured to capture a request from the at least one application for data communication through a network interface of the mobile device;

a second interface to least an operating system of the mobile device, wherein the second interface is configured to interrogate the operating system about a functionality of the at least one application;

a policy for determining for the at least one application data communication access rights based in part on the functionality of the at least one application; and

a first data link that emulates data communication of the at least one application through the network interface without interfering with normal operation of the at least one application, when the data communication access rights require regulating bandwidth usage by the at least one application; and

a second data link that enables the at least one application direct data communication through the network interface, when the data communication access rights does not require regulating bandwidth usage by the at least one application.