COMMUNICATION METHOD AND MOBILE TERMINAL

• US 20180189196A1
• Filed: 11/02/2017
• Published: 07/05/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corporation Limited
• Original Assignee: Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corporation Limited
• Granted Patent: US 10,176,123 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/102 where the programme performs an interfacing function, e.g. device driver G06F13/105 takes precedence; scheduling within device drivers G06F9/52; contention policies within device drivers G06F9/4881
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 20/00 Machine learning
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1008 based on parameters of servers, e.g. available memory or workload monitoring of computer activity G06F11/30
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• 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 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

The embodiments of the disclosure disclose a communication method and a mobile terminal. The method includes: when a data communication request sent from a first peripheral device to a second peripheral device is detected, querying whether N peripheral device sets contain a first identifier of the first peripheral device and a second identifier of the second peripheral device, the N peripheral device sets being associated with N communication processors respectively, and each peripheral device set containing an identifier of each peripheral device connected to the corresponding communication processor; and when an i^th peripheral device set of the N peripheral device sets contains the first and second identifiers, sending communication link configuration information to the first peripheral device, so as to instruct the first peripheral device to perform data communication with the second peripheral device via an i^th communication processor.

Claims

1. A communication method, applied to a mobile terminal comprising N communication processors and an Application Processor (AP), the N communication processors being connected to the AP, each of the N communication processors being connected to at least two peripheral devices of the mobile terminal, N being a positive integer, the method comprising:

when a data communication request sent from a first peripheral device to a second peripheral device is detected, querying whether N peripheral device sets contain a first identifier of the first peripheral device and a second identifier of the second peripheral device, wherein the N peripheral device sets are associated with the N communication processors respectively, and each peripheral device set contains an identifier of each peripheral device connected to the corresponding communication processor; and

when it is found out that an i^th peripheral device set of the N peripheral device sets contains the first identifier and the second identifier, sending communication link configuration information to the first peripheral device, the communication link configuration information carrying an identifier of an i^th communication processor associated with the i^th peripheral device set, and the communication link configuration information being used to instruct the first peripheral device to perform data communication with the second peripheral device via the i^th communication processor, where i is a positive integer, and 1≤

i≤

N.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

acquiring resource occupancy information about each of the N communication processors; and

adjusting at least two peripheral devices connected to each of at least some of the N communication processors according to the resource occupancy information on the basis of a load balancing principle, so as to achieve load balancing of the N communication processors via the adjustment.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the adjusting at least two peripheral devices connected to each of at least some of the N communication processors according to the resource occupancy information on the basis of a load balancing principle so as to achieve load balancing of the N communication processors via the adjustment comprises:

when the resource occupancy information indicates that resource occupancy of a first communication processor of the N communication processors is higher than resource occupancy of other communication processors of the N communication processors, changing connection of one or more of at least two peripheral devices to the first communication processor into connection to other communication processors of the N communication processors on the basis of the load balancing principle.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein the adjusting at least two peripheral devices connected to each of at least some of the N communication processors according to the resource occupancy information on the basis of a load balancing principle so as to achieve load balancing of the N communication processors via the adjustment comprises:

when the resource occupancy information indicates that resource occupancy of a second communication processor of the N communication processors is lower than resource occupancy of other communication processors of the N communication processors, changing connection of one or more of at least two peripheral devices to the other communication processors into connection to the second communication processor on the basis of the load balancing principle.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

determining a high-frequency usage time period of a target peripheral device; and

when it is detected that a current time falls within the high-frequency usage time period of the target peripheral device, configuring the target peripheral device with a target communication processor, processing capacity of the target communication processor being higher than processing capacities of other processors, except the target communication processor, of the N communication processors.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the determining a high-frequency usage time period of a target peripheral device comprises:

acquiring usage information about a target peripheral device within a preset time period; and

determining the high-frequency usage time period of the target peripheral device according to the usage information about the target peripheral device within the preset time period.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the determining a high-frequency usage time period of a target peripheral device comprises:

performing machine learning on the usage information about the target peripheral device within the preset time period, so as to make statistics on the high-frequency usage time period of the target peripheral device.

8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

displaying a visual interactive interface on a display screen of the mobile terminal, the visual interactive interface being used to set a communication mode for peripheral devices, the visual interactive interface comprising identifiers of at least two peripheral devices of the mobile terminal and identifiers of the N communication processors;

acquiring an identifier of a communication processor and an identifier of a peripheral device selected by a user; and

adding the identifier of the selected peripheral device into a peripheral device set associated with the selected communication processor.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein

the at least two peripheral devices are at least two components selected from a group consisting of a Radio Frequency (RF) module, a Wireless Fidelity (WIFI) module, a power supply, a memory, a camera, a touch screen, an audio playing module, a sensor and a display screen.

10. A mobile terminal, comprising:

N communication processors and an Application Processor (AP), the N communication processors being connected to the AP, each of the N communication processors being connected to at least two peripheral devices of the mobile terminal, N being a positive integer, the mobile terminal comprising;

a memory, configured to store instructions readable by one or more processors; and

the one or more processors, configured to execute the instructions to implement one or more units, the one or more units comprising;

a querying unit, configured to query, when a data communication request sent from a first peripheral device to a second peripheral device is detected, whether N peripheral device sets contain a first identifier of the first peripheral device and a second identifier of the second peripheral device, the N peripheral device sets being associated with the N communication processors respectively, and each peripheral device set containing an identifier of each peripheral device connected to the corresponding communication processor; and

a sending unit, configured to send, when it is found out that an i^th peripheral device set of the N peripheral device sets contains the first identifier and the second identifier, communication link configuration information to the first peripheral device, the communication link configuration information carrying an identifier of an i^th communication processor associated with the i^th peripheral device set, and the communication link configuration information being used to instruct the first peripheral device to perform data communication with the second peripheral device via the i^th communication processor, where i is a positive integer, and 1≤

i≤

N.

11. The mobile terminal according to claim 10, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to execute the instructions to implement:

a first acquisition unit, configured to acquire resource occupancy information about each of the N communication processors; and

a first configuration unit, configured to adjust at least two peripheral devices connected to each of at least some of the N communication processors according to the resource occupancy information on the basis of a load balancing principle, so as to achieve load balancing of the N communication processors via the adjustment.

12. The mobile terminal according to claim 11, wherein the first configuration unit is configured to:

change, when the resource occupancy information indicates that resource occupancy of a first communication processor of the N communication processors is higher than resource occupancy of other communication processors of the N communication processors, connection of one or more of at least two peripheral devices to the first communication processor into connection to other communication processors of the N communication processors on the basis of the load balancing principle.

13. The mobile terminal according to claim 11, wherein the first configuration unit is configured to:

change, when the resource occupancy information indicates that resource occupancy of a second communication processor of the N communication processors is lower than resource occupancy of other communication processors of the N communication processors, connection of one or more of at least two peripheral devices to the other communication processors into connection to the second communication processor on the basis of the load balancing principle.

14. The mobile terminal according to claim 10, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to execute the instructions to implement:

a determination unit, configured to determine a high-frequency usage time period of a target peripheral device; and

a second configuration unit, configured to configure, when it is detected that a current time falls within the high-frequency usage time period of the target peripheral device, the target peripheral device with a target communication processor, processing capacity of the target communication processor being higher than processing capacities of other processors, except the target communication processor, of the N communication processors.

15. The mobile terminal according to claim 14, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to execute the instructions to implement:

a first acquisition unit, configured to acquire usage information about a target peripheral device within a preset time period,

wherein the determination unit is configured to determine the high-frequency usage time period of the target peripheral device according to the usage information about the target peripheral device within the preset time period.

16. The mobile terminal according to claim 15, wherein the first acquisition unit is configured to perform machine learning on the usage information about the target peripheral device within the preset time period;

and the determination unit is configured to make statistics on the high-frequency usage time period of the target peripheral device according to a result of the machine learning.

17. The mobile terminal according to claim 10, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to execute the instructions to implement:

a display unit, configured to display a visual interactive interface on a display screen of the mobile terminal, the visual interactive interface being used to set a communication mode for peripheral devices, the visual interactive interface comprising identifiers of at least two peripheral devices of the mobile terminal and identifiers of the N communication processors;

a third acquisition unit, configured to acquire an identifier of a communication processor and an identifier of a peripheral device selected by a user; and

a third configuration unit, configured to add the identifier of the selected peripheral device into a peripheral device set associated with the selected communication processor.

18. The mobile terminal according to claim 10, wherein

the at least two peripheral devices are at least two components selected from a group consisting of a Radio Frequency (RF) module, a Wireless Fidelity (WIFI) module, a power supply, a memory, a camera, a touch screen, an audio playing module, a sensor and a display screen.

19. A mobile terminal, comprising:

N communication processors, an Application Processor (AP), M peripheral devices and a bus, wherein the N communication processors are connected to the AP via the bus, and each of the N communication processors is connected to at least two of the M peripheral devices, N being a positive integer, and M being a positive integer greater than 2; and

the at least two peripheral devices communicate with each other via the corresponding communication processor.