MODIFYING SYSTEM TIMERS FOR OPTIMIZING MOBILE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT

• US 20150055463A1
• Filed: 08/25/2014
• Published: 02/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seven Networks LLC (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Seven Networks Inc
• Inventors: Alisawi, Rami, Backholm, Ari, Srinivasan, Suresh, Lee, Yuan Kang, Sengupta, Chaitali, Jukar, Tejas
• Application Number:
  US14/467,951
• Publication Number:
  US 20150055463A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/230
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2475 for supporting traffic characterised by the type of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/566 Grouping or aggregating service requests, e.g. for unified processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/61 taking into account QoS or priority requirements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0236 radio quality, e.g. interference, losses or delay
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0289 Congestion control load shedding arrangements in network planning H04W16/08; performing reselection for handling the traffic H04W36/22; wireless traffic scheduling H04W72/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/25 Maintenance of established connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/28 Discontinuous transmission [DTX]; Discontinuous reception [DRX]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/00 Reducing energy consumption in communication networks
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A mobile device for optimizing mobile traffic is provided. The device includes a radio. The mobile device is configured to modify system timers to increase tolerance to delay in establishing a connection to the wireless network, intercept requests to establish a connection to a wireless network, wherein the requests correspond to non-user interactive traffic, accumulate the requests that are intercepted over a period of time, and transfer the requests that are accumulated over the wireless network at the end of the period of time.

Claims

1. A mobile device for optimizing mobile traffic, comprising:

a radio;

wherein the mobile device is configured to;

modify system timers to increase tolerance to delay in establishing a connection to the wireless network;

intercept requests to establish a connection to a wireless network, wherein the requests correspond to non-user interactive traffic;

accumulate the requests that are intercepted over a period of time; and

transfer the requests that are accumulated over the wireless network at the end of the period of time.

2. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the tolerance to delay is increased by modifying one or more timeouts associated with establishing a socket connection.

3. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the delay tolerance is increased by modifying one or more timeouts associated with reading from an already established socket connection.

4. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the delay tolerance is increased by modifying timeouts specific to one or more protocols associated with the requests.

5. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the tolerance to delay that is increased prevents one or more applications that initiated the requests from timing out during the period of time the requests are accumulated.

6. The mobile device of claim 2, wherein the period of time is a predefined duration determined based on the tolerance to delay that is increased.

7. The mobile device of claim 6, wherein the transfer of the requests that are accumulated is triggered when a screen of the mobile device is turned on or when a user-interactive traffic is detected.

8. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the period of time is determined by a local proxy on the mobile device.

9. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the period of time is determined at run time based on a screen on/off policy, wherein the period of time is of shorter duration when a screen of the mobile device is on than when the screen of the mobile device is off.

10. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein applications from where the non-user interactive traffic originates from are transparent to the tolerance to delay that is increased and accumulation of the requests over the period of time.

11. A method for optimizing mobile traffic comprising:

modifying system timers to increase tolerance to delay in establishing a connection to the wireless network;

intercepting requests to establish a connection to a wireless network, wherein the requests correspond to non-user interactive traffic;

accumulating the requests that are intercepted over a period of time; and

transferring the requests that are accumulated over the wireless network at the end of the period of time.