APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TRAFFIC OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20150201391A1
• Filed: 01/14/2015
• Published: 07/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Ok-Seon, KANG, Hyeon-Jin, MOON, Sang-Jun, PARK, Yong-Seok, YOON, Kang-Jin
• Granted Patent: US 9,609,596 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/554 involving event detection and direct action
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/00 Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units program control for peripheral devices G06F13/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0215 based on user or device properties, e.g. MTC-capable devices services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC] H04W4/70; wireless resource selection or allocation plan definition based on terminal or device properties H04W72/51
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/22 using selective relaying for reaching a BTS [Base Transceiver Station] or an access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0229 where the received signal is a wanted signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/0015 one node acting as a reference for the others
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

An apparatus and a method for controlling traffic of a second electronic device, which interworks with a first electronic device, in the first electronic device is provided. The method includes detecting occurrence of an event which needs to be notified to the second electronic device, determining a time to notify the occurrence of the event based on a driving time of the second electronic device, and transmitting an event occurrence notification signal to the second electronic device at the determined notification time.

Claims

1. A method for operating a first electronic device, the method comprising:

detecting occurrence of an event which needs to be notified to a second electronic device;

determining a notification time to notify the occurrence of the event based on a driving time of the second electronic device; and

transmitting an event occurrence notification signal to the second electronic device at the notification time.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining of the notification time to notify the occurrence of the event based on the driving time of the second electronic device comprises:

determining whether the driving time of the second electronic device elapses from a first time at which a previous event occurrence notification signal was transmitted to the second electronic device;

determining, when the driving time of the second electronic device does not elapse from the first time, a present time as the notification time to notify the occurrence of the event; and

determining, when the driving time of the second electronic device elapses from the first time, a time at which a screen of the first electronic device is turned off as the notification time to notify the occurrence of the event.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining of the notification time to notify the occurrence of the event based on the driving time of the second electronic device comprises:

determining an event collection time based on the driving time of the second electronic device; and

determining a time at which the event collection time elapses as the notification time to notify the occurrence of the event.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the determining of the notification time to notify the occurrence of the event based on the driving time of the second electronic device comprises controlling to transmit at least one event which occurs during the event collection time collectively at the notification time at which the event collection time expires.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the determining of the notification time to notify the occurrence of the event based on the driving time of the second electronic device comprises determining the event collection time based on the driving time of the second electronic device and a time of communication between the first electronic device and the second electronic device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the driving time of the second electronic device comprises a time during which the second electronic device is operated in an activation state when receiving an event notification signal.

7. An apparatus for a first electronic device, the apparatus comprising:

a processor configured to;

detect occurrence of an event which needs to be notified to a second electronic device; and

determine a notification time to notify the occurrence of the event based on a driving time of the second electronic device; and

a communication module configured to transmit an event occurrence notification signal to the second electronic device at the notification time.

8. The apparatus of claim 7,

wherein the processor is further configured to determine whether the driving time of the second electronic device elapses from a first time at which a previous event occurrence notification signal was transmitted to the second electronic device,

wherein the processor is further configured, when the driving time of the second electronic device does not elapse from the first time, to determine a present time as the notification time to notify the occurrence of the event, and

wherein the processor is further configured, when the driving time of the second electronic device elapses from the first time, to determine a time at which a screen of the first electronic device is turned off as the notification time to notify the occurrence of the event.

9. The apparatus of claim 7,

wherein the processor is further configured to determine an event collection time based on the driving time of the second electronic device, and

wherein the processor is further configured to determine a time at which the event collection time elapses as the notification time to notify the occurrence of the event.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the processor is further configured to control to transmit at least one event which occurs during the event collection time collectively at the notification time at which the event collection time expires.

11. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein the processor is further configured to determine the event collection time based on the driving time of the second electronic device and a time of communication between the first electronic device and the second electronic device.

12. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the driving time of the second electronic device comprises a time during which the second electronic device is operated in an activation state when receiving an event notification signal.

13. A method for operating a first electronic device, the method comprising:

detecting generation of traffic to a second electronic device before a synchronization time with the second electronic device arrives; and

controlling one of a processing time of the traffic and the synchronization time with the second electronic device.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the controlling of one of the processing time of the traffic and the synchronization time with the second electronic device comprises delaying the traffic and transmitting the delayed traffic to the second electronic device along with synchronization data at the synchronization time.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the controlling of one of the processing time of the traffic and the synchronization time with the second electronic device comprises transmitting synchronization data to the second electronic device along with the traffic at a time the traffic is generated before the synchronization time with the second electronic device.

16. An apparatus for a first electronic device, the apparatus comprising:

a processor configured to;

detect generation of traffic to a second electronic device before a synchronization time with the second electronic device; and

control one of a processing time of the traffic and the synchronization time with the second electronic device; and

a communication module configured to transmit one of the traffic and synchronization data to the second electronic device under control of the processor.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the processor is further configured to control to delay the traffic and transmit the delayed traffic to the second electronic device along with synchronization data at the synchronization time.

18. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the processor is further configured to control to transmit synchronization data to the second electronic device along with the traffic at a time the traffic is generated before the synchronization time with the second electronic device.

19. A method for operating a first electronic device, the method comprising:

detecting a data change of an application which needs to be synchronized with a second electronic device;

detecting generation of traffic to the second electronic device; and

transmitting the changed data of the application to the second electronic device along with the traffic.

20. An apparatus for a first electronic device, the apparatus comprising:

a processor configured to;

detect a data change of an application which needs to be synchronized with a second electronic device; and

detect generation of traffic to the second electronic device; and

a communication module configured to control to transmit the changed data of the application to the second electronic device along with the traffic under control of the processor.