Dynamic adjustment of transmitted data size for a subscriber device

• US 6,832,259 B2
• Filed: 08/29/2002
• Issued: 12/14/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Hymel, James Allen, Levy, Rami Chaim
• Primary Examiner(s): Harrell, Robert B.
• Application Number:
  US10/230,719
• Publication Number:
  US 20040044781A1
• Time in Patent Office: 838 Days
• Field of Search: 345/700, 345/733, 345/734, 345/735, 345/736, 345/738, 709/200, 709/201, 709/202, 709/203, 709/217, 709/219, 709/230, 709/232, 709/235, 709/246, 709/247, 709/229, 365/226, 365/227, 320/106, 320/107, 320/112
• US Class Current: 709/229
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel

Abstract

A service provider network (16) and method therein operates to dynamically reduce the bandwidth required for data. The service provider network (16) includes a memory (20) for storing subscriber information of a subscriber device (12), a data engine (22) for receiving a generic data request from the subscriber device (12), formatting the request into a compatible format, transmitting the request, and receiving data in response to the request, and an intelligent proxy server (18) for receiving the data from the data engine (22), manipulating or filtering the data as a function of the subscriber information to thin the content of the data, and outputting the filtered data to the subscriber device (12).

Claims

1. A method of controlling an amount of requested data being transmitted to a requesting subscriber device, comprising:

receiving the requested data;

identifying the subscriber device based on the receiving of the requested data;

retrieving stored subscriber information indicative of a semi-static device profile and at least one of a dynamically changing device status and a user profile associated with the subscriber device in response to the identifying of the subscriber device;

filtering the requested data as a function of at least one of the periodically updated semi-static device profile, the dynamically changing device status, and the user profile associated with the subscriber device; and

transmitting filtered data resulting from the filtering of the requested data to the subscriber device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the filtering of the requested data comprises reducing content of the requested data based on a selected user cost threshold.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the selected user cost threshold is a function of user defined parameters.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the user defined parameters comprise at least one of time of day, day of week, roaming, user schedule and number of remaining free subscriber minutes.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the reducing of content of the requested data based on a selected user cost threshold comprises at least one of thinning audio files, truncating text files, increasing a compression ratio of JPEG or MPEG files, and reducing graphic resolution, color depth or gray scale depth on image files.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the filtering of the requested data comprises reducing content of the requested data based on a subscriber device battery level.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the reducing of content of the requested data based on a subscriber device battery level comprises at least one of thinning audio files, truncating text files, increasing a compression ratio of JPEG or MPEG files, and reducing graphic resolution, color depth or gray scale depth on image files.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the filtering of the requested data comprises reducing content of the requested data based on a subscriber device bit error rate.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the reducing of content of the requested data based on a subscriber device bit error rate comprises at least one of thinning audio files, truncating text files, increasing a compression ratio of JPEG or MPEG files, and reducing graphic resolution, color depth or gray scale depth on image files.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving of the requested data comprises receiving requested Internet data.

11. A service provider system, comprising:

a memory for storing subscriber information of a subscriber device including a semi-static device profile and at least one of dynamically changing device status and a user profile;

a data engine for receiving a generic data request from the subscriber device, formatting the request into a format compatible with a type of data being requested, transmitting the request, and receiving data in response to the generic data request; and

an intelligent proxy server in communication with both the memory and the data engine for manipulating data received by the data engine as a function of the subscriber information received from the memory, and for outputting manipulated data to the subscriber device.

12. The service provider system of claim 11, wherrein the intelligent proxy server is for filtering the data to reduce content of the data.

13. The service provider system of claim 12, wherein the intelligent proxy server is for filtering the data to reduce content of the data based on at least one of a subscriber device battery level, a subscriber device bit error rate, and a selected user cost threshold.

14. The service provider system of claim 13, wherein the selected user cost threshold is a function of user defined parameters.

15. The service provider system of claim 14, wherein the user defined parameters comprise at least one of time of day, day of week, roaming, user schedule and number of remaining free subscriber minutes.

16. The service provider system of claim 12, wherein the intelligent proxy server is for filtering the data to reduce content of the data by at least one of thinning audio files, truncating text files, increasing a compression ratio of JPEG or MPEG files, and reducing graphic resolution, color depth or gray scale depth on image files.

17. The service provider system of claim 11, wherein the memory is further for receiving from the subscriber device updates of at least one of the semi-static device profile, the dynamically changing device status, and the user profile.

18. The service provider system of claim 11, wherein the data engine is for receiving a generic Internet data request.

19. The service provider system of claim 11, wherein the memory and the data engine are co-located and the proxy server is located remotely from the memory and the data engine.

20. A method of processing a data request from a wireless subscriber device, comprising:

storing subscriber information of a subscriber device including a semi-static device profile and at least one of a dynamically changing device status, and a user profile;

receiving a generic data request from the subscriber device, formatting the request into a format compatible with a type of data being requested;

transmitting the generic data request to a data storage sector;

receiving data in response to the transmitting of the request to a data storage sector; and

manipulating the data as a function of the subscriber information to reduce content of the data.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the manipulating of the data as a function of the subscriber information to reduce content of the data comprises filtering the data to reduce the content of the data based on at least one of subscriber device battery level, subscriber device bit error rate, and selected user cost threshold.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the filtering of the data to reduce the content of the data based on at least one of the subscriber device battery level, the subscriber device bit error rate, and the selected user cost threshold further comprises filtering the data to reduce the content of the data by at least one of thinning audio files, truncating text files, increasing a compression ratio of JPEG or MPEG files, and reducing graphic resolution, color depth or gray scale depth on image files.