PROXY SERVER ASSOCIATED WITH A MOBILE CARRIER FOR ENHANCING MOBILE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT IN A MOBILE NETWORK

• US 20150023159A1
• Filed: 10/08/2013
• Published: 01/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seven Networks LLC (FIG LLC (d/b/a Fortress Investment Group LLC))
• Original Assignee: Seven Networks Inc
• Inventors: Alisawi, Rami
• Granted Patent: US 9,065,765 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/230
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/32 by discarding or delaying data units, e.g. packets or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/61 taking into account QoS or priority requirements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0221 power availability or consumption
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0229 where the received signal is a wanted signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0254 detecting a user operation or a tactile contact or a motion of the device
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A proxy server or component associated with or residing on a mobile carrier or mobile operator side for enhancing mobile traffic management in a mobile network and system and methods therefor are disclosed. The proxy server, in some embodiments, can delay, clump, block or otherwise manage incoming traffic initiated by one or more application servers and directed to one or more mobile applications associated with the one or more applications servers installed on a mobile device. The proxy server can manage the incoming traffic based on traffic category, time criticality, priority and/or other criteria. The proxy server can further transfer the traffic that was delayed to the mobile device in response to a trigger such as promotion of a radio state on the mobile device or a start of an interval for transferring incoming to the mobile device and outgoing traffic from the mobile device.

Claims

1. A method for mobile traffic management on a mobile carrier or mobile operator, comprising:

delaying, at a proxy server, a batch of transactions initiated by an application server directed towards a mobile device,

wherein the application server is associated with a mobile application on the mobile device; and

detecting arrival of a trigger that includes a message of high priority, time critical, or an urgent transaction directed to the mobile device and initiated by the application server;

transferring, at the proxy server, the batch of the transactions that were delayed and the message associated with the trigger to the mobile device in response to detecting the trigger;

wherein the proxy server is associated with or residing on the mobile carrier or the mobile operator.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the delaying is in response to determining that a radio on the mobile device is in idle state.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the transactions initiated by the application server are delayed to achieve radio alignment between the proxy server where the transactions are buffered and the mobile device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the proxy server resides in a core network or a radio access network.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the transactions that were delayed include low priority, non-time critical or non-urgent transactions.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the transactions that were delayed include a response from the application server received in response to a request from the mobile device, wherein the response from the application server was received after expiration of an inactivity timer of a mobile network and after demotion of a radio on the mobile device to an idle state.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the transactions that were delayed are transferred to the mobile device over a single connection established between the mobile device and a mobile network.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the trigger includes a start of an interval for transferring the transactions that were delayed from the proxy server to the mobile device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein transactions initiated from one or more mobile applications on the mobile device are transferred over a mobile network to respective application servers during the same interval.

11. The method of claim 2, wherein the trigger includes promotion of the radio on the mobile device from the idle state to an active state or from a low power state to a high power state.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the promotion of the radio on the mobile device is responsive to turning on of a screen of the mobile device.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

intercepting a transaction initiated by an application server associated with a mobile application on the mobile device;

identifying the transaction as being unnecessary;

blocking the transaction identified as being unnecessary to prevent establishment of a radio link between the mobile device and a mobile network.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

intercepting a transaction initiated by an application server associated with a mobile application on the mobile device;

determining whether a cached response is available for responding to the transaction;

if so, providing the cached response as a response to the transaction to prevent establishment of a radio link between the mobile device and a mobile network.

10. (canceled)

15. A system for enhancing mobile traffic management, comprising:

a proxy server integrated to a mobile network or a core network to enforce a mobile traffic management policy configured to;

intercept and delay a batch of transactions initiated from multiple application servers associated with multiple mobile applications on a mobile device; and

detecting arrival of a trigger that includes a message of high priority, time critical, or an urgent transaction directed to the mobile device and initiated by the application server;

transfer the batch of transactions that were intercepted and delayed and the message associated with the detected trigger to the mobile device over the mobile network in response to detecting the trigger.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the transactions were delayed in response to determining that a radio on the mobile device is in idle state.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the transactions were delayed to achieve radio alignment between the proxy server where the transactions were buffered and the mobile device.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the transactions include low priority, non-time critical or non-urgent transactions and wherein the transactions that were delayed are transferred to the mobile device over a single connection established between the mobile device and the mobile network.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the transactions include a response to a request from the mobile device that is received from one of the multiple application servers after expiration of a network dormancy timer.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein the trigger includes a start of an interval for transferring the transactions that were delayed from the proxy server to the mobile device, wherein transactions initiated from multiple mobile applications on the mobile device are transferred to respective application servers during the same interval.

22. The system of claim 16, wherein the trigger includes promotion of the radio on the mobile device from the idle state to an active state.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein the promotion of the radio on the mobile device is responsive to turning on of a screen of the mobile device or detection of user activity at the mobile device.

24. The system of claim 15, wherein the proxy server is further configured to:

intercept a transaction initiated by an application server associated with a mobile application on the mobile device;

identify the transaction as being unnecessary;

block the transaction identified as unnecessary to prevent establishment of a radio link between the mobile device and the mobile network.

25. The system of claim 15, wherein the proxy server is further configured to:

intercept a transaction initiated by an application server associated with a mobile application on the mobile device;

determine whether a cached response is available for responding to the transaction;

if so, provide the cached response as a response to the transaction to prevent establishment of a radio link between the mobile device and the mobile network.

21. (canceled)

26-31. -31. (canceled)