Receiving wireless information on a mobile device with reduced power consumption

• US 6,289,464 B1
• Filed: 11/10/1998
• Issued: 09/11/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Miller, John Mark, Cronin, Dennis, Deo, Vinay, Kadyk, Don, Tuniman, David, Wecker, Dave, OʼLeary, Michael J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ray, Gopal C.
• Application Number:
  US09/189,024
• Time in Patent Office: 1,036 Days
• Field of Search: 713/300, 713/310, 713/320, 713/323, 709/217, 710/3, 710/106, 379/41, 370/278, 375/220, 455/31.1, 455/11.1, 455/89, 340/825.44, 340/311.1, 340/825.72, 340/825.69
• US Class Current: 713/300
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1698 the I/O peripheral being a sending/receiving arrangement to establish a cordless communication link, e.g. radio or infrared link, integrated cellular phone details of antennas disposed inside a computer H01Q1/2266
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3209 Monitoring remote activity, e.g. over telephone lines or network connections
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/12 Use of codes for handling textual entities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/123 Storage facilities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/149 Adaptation of the text data for streaming purposes, e.g. Efficient XML Interchange [EXI] format
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/151 Transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/197 Version control for software G06F8/71
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/00 Network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0227 Filtering policies mail message filtering H04L51/212
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0263 Rule management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/04 Protocols for data compression, e.g. ROHC
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/22 Parsing or analysis of headers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/2757 : by data transmission, e.g. downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 : by software upgrading or downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 : using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 : Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/023 : with message or information receiving capability
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 : in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A system and method for receiving wireless information on a portable computing device includes powering a wireless receiver only from a battery of the portable computing device. Receiving wireless information and storing the wireless information in memory of the wireless receiver. The wireless receiver wakes up a processor of the portable computing device when the wireless information fills a threshold of the memory available in the wireless receiver. The wireless information is then transferred from the memory of the wireless receiver to the memory of the portable computing device.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for receiving wireless information on a portable computing device, the method comprising:

powering a wireless receiver only from a battery of the portable computing device;

receiving wireless information;

storing the wireless information in memory of the wireless receiver;

awaking a processor of the portable computing device when the wireless information fills a threshold of the memory available in the wireless receiver; and

transferring the wireless information from the memory of the wireless receiver to memory of the portable computing device.

2. The method of claim 1 and further comprising analyzing the wireless information received from the wireless receiver with the processor of the portable computing device.

3. The method of claim 2 and further comprising powering another component of the portable computing device as a function of the wireless information received.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein said another component comprises a display.

5. The method of claim 4 and further comprising powering a keyboard of the portable computing device as a function of the wireless information received.

6. The method of claim 4 wherein the step of analyzing comprises analyzing a content of the wireless information.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the step of analyzing comprises analyzing a wireless address associated with the wireless information.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the wireless address includes a priority status entry indicating if priority messages are received thereon, and wherein the method further includes analyzing the priority status entry associated with the wireless information.

9. The method of claim 8 and further comprising powering another component of the portable computing device as a function of analyzing the priority status entry.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein said another component comprises a display.

11. The method of claim 10 and further comprising powering a keyboard of the portable computing device as a function of analyzing the priority status entry.

12. The method of claim 8 and further comprising selectively changing the priority status entry of the wireless address.

13. The method of claim 6 wherein the step of analyzing comprises analyzing a selected portion of the wireless information.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the portable computing device includes an executable application, and wherein the step of analyzing comprises analyzing the wireless information as a function of information from the executable application.

15. The method of claim 1 wherein wireless information is received in accordance with a wireless address, and wherein the wireless address includes an operational status entry indicating if wireless information received thereon should be processed, and wherein storing the wireless information includes storing the wireless information in memory as a function of the operational status entry.

16. The method of claim 15 and further comprising selectively changing the operational status entry of the wireless address.

17. A wireless receiver for use in a portable computing device, the wireless receiver comprising:

a radio receiver for receiving wireless information;

memory for storing the wireless information and a list of wireless addresses for the portable computing device, wherein each address corresponds to selected information to be received, and wherein each address includes an associated operational status entry indicating enablement of the address; and

a processor for processing wireless information as a function of the status entry of the address the wireless information is received on.

18. The wireless receiver of claim 17 wherein the radio receiver, the memory and the processor are powered only from the portable computing device.

19. The wireless receiver of claim 17 wherein each address in the list of wireless addresses for the portable computing device includes a priority status entry indicating if priority messages are received thereon.

20. The wireless receiver of claim 17 wherein the memory stores a list of wireless addresses for the portable computing device, wherein each address corresponds to selected information to be received, and wherein each address includes a priority status entry indicating if priority messages are received thereon.

21. A computer implemented method for receiving wireless information on a portable computing device, wherein the wireless information is transmitted to the portable computing device with respect to wireless addresses, the method comprising:

providing a list of wireless addresses on the portable computing device, wherein each address corresponds to selected information to be received, and wherein each address includes an associated status entry indicating enablement of the address; and

selectively enabling and disabling the status entry for the wireless address to allow receipt of the corresponding information as a function of an operating parameter of the portable computing device.

22. The method of claim 21 wherein the step of selectively enabling and disabling includes enabling the status entry when the portable computing device is powered from a source other than a battery.

23. The method of claim 21 wherein the portable computing device comprises a mobile device.

24. The method of claim 21 wherein the portable computing device includes a wireless receiver, and the method further comprises:

powering the wireless receiver only from the portable computing device;

receiving wireless information on a wireless address; and

storing the wireless information in memory of the wireless receiver if status entry of the wireless address is enabled.

25. The method of claim 21 wherein the operating parameter is user adjustable.

26. A computer implemented method for receiving wireless information on a portable computing device, the method comprising:

receiving wireless information from a wireless receiver;

storing data information in memory indicative of the wireless information; and

awaking a processor of the portable computing device reading the data information in memory indicative of the wireless information and powering other components of the portable computing device as a function of the data information, wherein the step of awaking includes the processor executing a body of code to receive a value indicative of the data information, and wherein the value indicative of the data information includes a first value indicating no further processing is needed for the wireless information.

27. The method of claim 26 wherein the value indicative of the data information includes a second value indicating further processing is needed for the wireless information without another component.

28. The method of claim 26 wherein the value indicative of the data information includes a third value indicating further processing is needed for the wireless information with another component.

29. The method of claim 26 wherein the value indicative of the data information includes a second value indicating further processing is needed for the wireless information without at least one of a keyboard and a display.

30. The method of claim 26 wherein the value indicative of the data information includes a third value indicating further processing is needed for the wireless information with at least one of a keyboard and a display.

31. A wireless receiver for use in a portable computing device, the wireless receiver comprising:

a radio receiver for receiving wireless information;

memory for storing the wireless information and a list of wireless addresses for the portable computing device, wherein each address corresponds to selected information to be received, and wherein each address includes an associated operational status entry indicating enablement of the address;

a processor for processing the wireless information as a function of the operational status entry; and

wherein the radio receiver, the memory and the processor are powered only from portable computing device.

32. The wireless receiver of claim 31 wherein each address in the list of wireless addresses for the portable computing device includes a priority status entry indicating if priority messages are received thereon.

33. A portable computing device for receiving wireless information, wherein the wireless information is transmitted to the portable computing device with respect to wireless addresses, portable computing device comprising:

memory for storing a list of wireless addresses, wherein each address corresponds to selected information to be received, and wherein each address includes an associated status entry indicating enablement of the address; and

a processor selectively enabling and disabling the status entry for the wireless address to allow receipt of the corresponding information as a function of an operating parameter of the portable computing device.

34. The portable computing device of claim 33 wherein the processor receives user commands to selectively enable and disable a status entry.

35. The portable computing device of claim 33 wherein each address includes a priority status entry indicating if priority messages are received thereon.

36. A computer implement method for receiving wireless information on a portable computing device, wherein the wireless information is transmitted to the portable computing device with respect to wireless addresses, the method comprising:

providing a list of wireless addresses on the portable computing device, wherein each address corresponds to selected information to be received, and wherein each address includes an associated status entry indicating enablement of the address; and

selectively enabling and disabling the status entry for the wireless address to allow receipt of the corresponding information as a function of an operating parameter of the portable computing device.

37. The method of claim 36 wherein the step of selectively enabling and disabling includes enabling the status entry when the portable computing device is powered from a source other than a battery.

38. The method of claim 36 wherein the portable computing device comprises a mobile device.

39. The method of claim 36 wherein the portable computing device includes a wireless receiver, and the method further comprises:

powering the wireless receiver only from the portable computing device;

receiving wireless information on a wireless address; and

storing the wireless information in memory of the wireless receiver if status entry of the wireless address is enabled.

40. The method of claim 36 wherein the operating parameter is user adjustable.

41. A computer implemened method for receiving wireless information on a portable computing device, the method comprising:

receiving wireless information from a wireless receiver;

storing data information in memory indicative of the wireless information; and

awaking a processor of the portable computing device reading the data information in memory indicative of the wireless information and powering other components of the portable computing device as a function of the data information, wherein the step of awaking includes the processor executing a body of code to receive a value indicative of the data information, and wherein the value indicative of the data information includes a first value indicating no further processing is needed for the wireless information.

42. The method of claim 41 wherein the value indicative of the data information includes a second value indicating further processing is needed for the wireless information without another component.

43. The method of claim 41 wherein the value indicative of the data information includes a third value indicating further processing is needed for the wireless information with another component.

44. The method of claim 41 wherein the value indicative of the data information includes a second value indicating further processing is needed for the wireless information with at least one of a keyboard and a display.

45. The method of claim 41 wherein the value indicative of the data information includes a third value indicating further processing is needed for the wireless information with at least one a keyboard and a display.

46. A wireless receiver for use in a portable computing device, the wireless receiver comprising:

a radio receiver for receiving wireless information;

memory for storing the wireless information and a list of wireless addresses for the portable computing device, wherein each address corresponds to selected information to be received, and wherein each address includes an associated operational status entry indicating enablement of the address;

a processor for processing the wireless information as a function of the operational status entry; and

wherein the radio receiver, the memory and the processor are powered only from the portable computing device.

47. The wireless receiver of claim 46 wherein each address in the list of wireless addresses for the portable computing device includes a priority status entry indicating if priority messages are received thereon.

48. A portable computing device for receiving wireless information, wherein the wireless information is transmitted to the portable computing device with respect to wireless addresses, the portable computing device comprising:

memory for storing a list of wireless addresses, wherein each address corresponds to selected information to be received, and wherein each address corresponds to selected information to be received, and wherein each address includes an associated status entry indicating enablement of the address; and

a processor selectively enabling and disabling the status entry for the wireless address to allow receipt of the corresponding information as a function of an operating parameter of the portable computing device.

49. The portable computing device of claim 48 wherein the processor receives user commands to selectively enable and disable a status entry.

50. The portable computing device of claim 48 wherein each address includes a priority status entry indicating if priority messages are received thereon.

51. The portable computing device of claim 48 wherein the wireless information comprises information packets, each information packet comprising a first portion having topic information indicative of content in a second portion of the information packet, and wherein the memory stores content filter data to ascertain if the information packet is to be discarded;

and wherein the portable computing device further comprises a second processor for processing the second portion if the information packet is not discarded.

52. The portable computing device of claim 51 wherein the first-mentioned processor compares the first portion of the information packet to the content filter data as a function of the wireless address.

53. The portable computing device of claim 52 wherein the content filter data comprises a plurality of data tables, each data table being associated with a wireless address.

54. The portable computing device of claim 53 wherein each data table includes representations of at least one of a single, set or range of user preferences.

55. The portable computing device of claim 54 wherein each data table comprises a bit-array, wherein a status of each bit indicates a user preference for a selected type of information, and wherein the first-mentioned processor operates a hashing function upon the first portion to generate an offset value, and checks the status of the bit in the bit-array as a function of the offset value.

56. The portable computing device of claim 53 wherein each data table comprises information stored pursuant to a hashing function.

57. The portable computing device of claim 53 wherein the content filter data includes additional information stored as a function of the wireless address.

58. The portable computing device of claim 57 wherein the first-mentioned processor filters the second portion as a function of the additional information.