Method and apparatus for data interaction

• US 9,203,896 B2
• Filed: 05/14/2013
• Issued: 12/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Device Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Device Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Fu, Xing
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Phuoc
• Assistant Examiner(s): ZAND, DAVOUD AMAN
• Application Number:
  US13/894,142
• Publication Number:
  US 20130254256A1
• Time in Patent Office: 931 Days
• Field of Search: 709/201, 709/217, 709219-230, 709/232, 709/248, 370/311, 455/574
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0251 using monitoring of local events, e.g. events related to user activity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0264 by selectively disabling software applications
• 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

The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for data interaction, and the method includes: obtaining required times of data interaction between valid applications in a background application mode and a network; selecting a minimum required time from the current required times as a target required time of data interaction, and starting timing; when the target required time expires, obtaining each valid application whose current required time of data interaction is between two consecutive target required times, and determining the valid application as a target application; and activating a packet data protocol PDP, establishing a data link between the target application and the network, and performing data interaction, and then restarting timing.

Claims

1. A method for data interaction, comprising:

obtaining current required times of data interaction from valid applications, wherein each of the current required times is associated with a respective one of the valid applications and is a time for data interaction between the respective one of the valid applications and a network, wherein each of the valid applications is an application running in a background application mode and that submits a registration with an application manager;

selecting a target required time that is the smallest of the current required times of the valid applications;

starting timing using the target required time as a timing duration;

when the target required time expires, identifying, as a target application, each of the valid applications having an associated current required time that is between a current point in time and a subsequent point in time occurring at an end of a next consecutive target required time; and

activating a packet data protocol (PDP), establishing a data link between the target application and the network, and performing data interaction for each target application.

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

restarting timing after the target application performs data interaction with the network.

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

monitoring in real time whether any packet switched instruction is actively initiated, and when detecting an actively initiated packet switched instruction, sending a data interaction instruction to each valid application, executing the step of activating the packet data protocol, and completing data interaction between the valid application and the network.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the identifying, as a target application, each of the valid applications comprises:

detecting whether any of the valid applications deregister with the application manager, and if so, identifying the deregistered valid applications as invalid applications and determining other valid applications as target applications, or if not, determining the valid applications as target applications.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein after the target application performs data interaction with the network, when a required time of an invalid application is a current target required time, returning to the step of obtaining required times of data interaction between valid applications and the network.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein after the target application performs data interaction with the network, when a required time of an invalid application is not a current target required time, returning to a step executed when the target required time expires.

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

restarting the timing using the target required time as the timing duration and in response to the target required time expiring;

setting the target required time to be a new required time in response to a new required time of a new valid application being obtained at a time point during the timing and in response to a sum of the new required time and the time point being smaller than the target required time; and

returning to a step executed when the target required time expires.

8. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:

when the sum of the new required time and the time point is greater than the target required time, after reselecting one target required time, returning to the step of selecting the target required time that is the smallest of the current required times.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the time point is between restarting of the target required time and expiry of the next target required time.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the time point is between restarting of the target required time and expiry of the next target required time.

11. An apparatus for data interaction, comprising:

a processor;

a non-transitory computer readable medium connected to the processor and having stored thereon instructions for causing the processor to;

obtain current required times of data interaction between valid applications and a network, wherein each of the current required times is associated with a respective one of the valid applications, and wherein each of the valid applications is an application running in the background application mode and that submits a registration with an application manager;

select a smallest required time from the current required times to be a target required time of data interaction;

start timing using the target required time as a timing duration and reset the target required time;

obtain, in response to the target required time expiring, each valid application having a current required time of data interaction that is between a current point in time and a subsequent point in time occurring at the end of a next consecutive target required time;

determine the valid application as a target application; and

activate a packet data protocol (PDP), establish a data link between the target application and the network, and return to the instruction to select the minimum required time after performing data interaction.

12. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium further has stored thereon instructions for causing the processor to:

monitor whether any packet switched instruction is actively initiated; and

generate a data interaction instruction in response to detecting an actively initiated packet switched instruction.

13. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium further has stored thereon instructions for causing the processor to:

detect whether any of the valid applications deregister with the application manager, and if so, identify each of the deregistered valid applications as an invalid application and shield the invalid application, or if not, directly trigger the instructions to obtain each valid application whose current required time of data interaction is between two consecutive target required times and determine the valid application as a target application; and

judge whether a required time of an invalid application is a current target required time, and if so, trigger the instructions to select the smallest required time, or if not, trigger the instructions to obtain each valid application whose current required time of data interaction is between two consecutive target required times and determine the valid application as a target application;

wherein instructions to judge whether a required time of an invalid application is a current target required time are triggered in response to identification of the deregistered valid applications as the invalid application.

14. The apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the non-transitory computer readable medium further has stored thereon instructions for causing the processor to:

detect a new required time of a new valid application obtained at a time point after the target required time is reset or restarted and before a next target required time expires; and

judge whether a sum of the new required time and the time point is smaller than the target required time, and if so, update a current target required time and trigger the instructions to obtain each valid application whose current required time of data interaction is between two consecutive target required times and determine the valid application as a target application.