Method for acting as service agent, modem, and terminal by establishing a heartbeat connection with an application server

• US 9,568,989 B2
• Filed: 10/24/2014
• Issued: 02/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2013
• 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: Peng, Yu, Deng, Yu, Li, Qilin
• Primary Examiner(s): PATEL, NITIN C
• Application Number:
  US14/523,631
• Publication Number:
  US 20150121100A1
• Time in Patent Office: 844 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3293 by switching to a less power-consuming processor, e.g. sub-CPU
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/103 with adaptive polling, i.e. dynamically adapting the polling rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/145 avoiding end of session, e.g. keep-alive, heartbeats, resumption message or wake-up for inactive or interrupted session
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0229 where the received signal is a wanted signal
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management
• 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 for acting as a service agent, including: receiving, by a modem, heartbeat configuration information corresponding to an application and sent by an application processor, where the application processor is in a sleep state after sending the heartbeat configuration information corresponding to the application, and establishing, by the modem according to the heartbeat configuration information corresponding to the application, a heartbeat connection with an application server corresponding to the application, so that the application processor is not woken up when the application has no updated content. Solutions provided by embodiments of the present invention can prevent an AP from being frequently woken up, thereby lowering power consumption of a terminal and extending standby time of the terminal.

Claims

1. A method for acting as a service agent, the method comprising:

receiving from an application processor, by a modem, heartbeat configuration information corresponding to an application, wherein the application processor is in a sleep state after sending the heartbeat configuration information corresponding to the application, wherein the heartbeat configuration information comprises an initial heartbeat interval of the application, wherein the application comprises at least two applications;

when an initial heartbeat interval of one application of the at least two applications is not less than the preset time threshold, adjusting the initial heartbeat interval of the one application of the at least two applications; and

when the initial heartbeat interval of one application of the at least two applications is not less than the preset time threshold, establishing, by the modem according to the adjusted initial heartbeat interval, a heartbeat connection with an application server corresponding to the one application of the at least two applications, wherein the application processor is not woken up when the application has no updated content.

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

comparing, by the modem, initial heartbeat intervals of the at least two applications with the preset time threshold.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein when the initial heartbeat interval of one application of the at least two applications is less than the preset time threshold, establishing, by the modem according to the initial heartbeat interval, a heartbeat connection with an application server corresponding to the one application of the at least two applications, wherein the application processor is not woken up when the application has no updated content.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the adjusting the initial heartbeat interval of the one application of the at least two applications comprises:

determining a minimum initial heartbeat interval according to the initial heartbeat intervals of the at least two applications;

dividing the initial heartbeat interval, which is not less than the preset time threshold, of the one application of the at least two applications by the minimum initial heartbeat interval and rounding up or down a quotient to obtain a whole number, and multiplying the whole number by the minimum initial heartbeat interval, to determine an adjusted heartbeat interval for the one application of the at least two applications; and

adjusting the initial heartbeat interval of the one application of the at least two applications according to the adjusted heartbeat interval for the one application of the at least two applications.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the modem communicates with the application processor by using a shared memory (SM) or an attention (AT) instruction channel.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the establishing the heartbeat connection comprises:

sending an online indication message to the application server corresponding to the application.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein after the sending, the method further comprises:

receiving, by the modem, data sent by the application server;

analyzing, by the modem, whether the data sent by the application server is application data according to the received data sent by the application server;

executing at least one or more of the following steps according to an analysis result;

when it is learned, by analyzing, that the data is application data normally pushed by the application server, waking up the application processor and sending the application data to the application processor;

when it is learned, by analyzing, that the data is abnormal response data fed back by the application server with regard to the online indication message, waking up the application processor and sending the abnormal response data to the application processor, wherein the abnormal response data is interaction data fed back by the application server to the application processor; and

when it is learned, by analyzing, that the data is normal response data fed back by the application server with regard to the online indication message, discarding the normal response data and skipping waking up the application processor, wherein the normal response data is used for indicating that the application server has already received the online indication message.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein after the receiving, by a modem, heartbeat configuration information corresponding to an application and sent by an application processor, the method further comprises:

receiving, by the modem, deletion instruction information, which is sent by the application processor, for the heartbeat configuration information corresponding to the application, wherein the deletion instruction information is used for instructing deletion of heartbeat configuration information of an application specified by the application processor; and

deleting, by the modem according to the received deletion instruction information, the heartbeat configuration information of the application specified by the application processor.

9. A modem comprising:

an input device, an output device, a processor, and a memory storing program instructions to be executed in the processor,

wherein the input device is configured to receive heartbeat configuration information corresponding to an application from an application processor, wherein the application processor is in a sleep state after sending the heartbeat configuration information corresponding to the application, wherein the heartbeat configuration information comprises an initial heartbeat interval of the application, wherein the application comprises at least two applications; and

wherein the program instructions are configured to cause the processor to

when an initial heartbeat interval of one application of the at least two applications is not less than a preset time threshold, adjust the initial heartbeat interval of the one application of the at least two applications, and

establish, according to the adjusted initial heartbeat interval, a heartbeat connection with an application server corresponding to the one application of the at least two applications, wherein the application processor is not woken up when the application has no updated content.

10. The modem according to claim 9, wherein the program instructions are further configured to cause the processor to:

compare initial heartbeat intervals of the at least two applications with the preset time threshold.

11. The modem according to claim 9, wherein:

the program instructions are further configured to cause the processor to;

determine a minimum initial heartbeat interval according to the initial heartbeat intervals of the at least two applications;

divide the initial heartbeat interval, which is not less than the preset time threshold, of the one application of the at least two applications by the minimum initial heartbeat interval and rounding up or down a quotient to obtain a whole number;

multiply the whole number by the minimum initial heartbeat interval to determine an adjusted heartbeat interval for the one application of the at least two applications; and

adjust the initial heartbeat interval of the one application of the at least two applications according to the adjusted heartbeat interval for the one application of the at least two applications.

12. The modem according to claim 9, wherein:

the processor is configured to trigger, according to the heartbeat configuration information corresponding to the application, sending of an online indication message to the application server corresponding to the application; and

the output device is configured to send the online indication message to the application server corresponding to the application, so as to establish the heartbeat connection with the application server corresponding to the application.

13. The modem according to claim 12, wherein:

the input device is further configured to receive data sent by the application server;

the program instructions are further configured to cause the processor to analyze whether the data sent by the application server is application data according to the received data sent by the application server; and

the processor and the output device are further configured to execute at least one or more of the following steps according to an analysis result;

when the processor learns, by analyzing, that the data is application data normally pushed by the application server, the processor wakes up the application processor, and the output device sends the application data to the application processor;

when the processor learns, by analyzing, that the data is abnormal response data fed back by the application server with regard to the online indication message, the processor wakes up the application processor, and the output device sends the abnormal response data to the application processor, wherein the abnormal response data is interaction data fed back by the application server to the application processor; and

when the processor learns, by analyzing, that the data is normal response data fed back by the application server with regard to the online indication message, the processor discards the normal response data and skips waking up the application processor, wherein the normal response data is used for indicating that the application server has already received the online indication message.

14. The modem according to claim 9, wherein:

the input device is further configured to receive deletion instruction information, which is sent by the application processor, for the heartbeat configuration information corresponding to the application, wherein the deletion instruction information is used for instructing deletion of heartbeat configuration information of an application specified by the application processor; and

the program instructions are further configured to cause the processor to delete, according to the received deletion instruction information, the heartbeat configuration information of the application specified by the application processor.

15. The modem according to claim 9, wherein the program instructions are further configured to cause the processor to:

not adjust an initial heartbeat interval corresponding to an application of the at least two applications that has an initial heartbeat interval less than the preset time threshold, and

establish according to the heartbeat configuration information corresponding to the application interval, a heartbeat connection with an application server corresponding to the application of the at least two applications that has an initial heartbeat interval less than the preset time threshold.

16. A terminal comprising a modem and an application processor, wherein:

the application processor is configured to send heartbeat configuration information corresponding to an application to the modem, and is in a sleep state after sending the heartbeat configuration information corresponding to the application, and the application processor is not woken up when the application has no updated content; and

the modem is configured to

receive the heartbeat configuration information corresponding to the application sent by the application processor, wherein the application comprises at least two applications having corresponding initial heartbeat period,

when an initial heartbeat period of one application of the at least two applications is not less than a preset time threshold, adjust the initial heartbeat period of the one application of the at least two applications, and

establish, according to the adjusted initial heartbeat period, a heartbeat connection with an application server corresponding to the one application of the at least two applications.

17. The terminal according to claim 16, wherein the modem is further configured to:

compare initial heartbeat periods of the at least two applications with the preset time threshold.

18. The terminal according to claim 16, wherein the modem is further configured to:

determine a minimum initial heartbeat period according to the initial heartbeat periods of the at least two applications;

divide the initial heartbeat period, which is not less than the preset time threshold, of the one application of the at least two applications by the minimum initial heartbeat period to obtain a whole number;

multiply the whole number by the minimum initial heartbeat period to determine an adjusted heartbeat period for the one application of the at least two applications; and

adjust the initial heartbeat period of the one application of the at least two applications according to the adjusted heartbeat period for the one application of the at least two applications.

19. The terminal according to claim 16, wherein:

the modem is further configured to establish, according to the heartbeat configuration information corresponding to the application, the heartbeat connection with the application server corresponding to the application by sending an online indication message to the application server corresponding to the application.

20. The terminal according to claim 19, wherein the modem is further configured to:

after sending the online indication message to the application server corresponding to the application, receive data sent by the application server, and

analyze whether the data sent by the application server is application data according to the received data sent by the application server; and

execute at least one or more of the following steps according to an analysis result;

when it is learned, by analyzing, that the data is application data normally pushed by the application server, wake up the application processor and send the application data to the application processor;

when it is learned, by analyzing, that the data is abnormal response data fed back by the application server with regard to the online indication message, wake up the application processor and send the abnormal response data to the application processor, wherein the abnormal response data is interaction data fed back by the application server to the application processor; and

when it is learned, by analyzing, that the data is normal response data fed back by the application server with regard to the online indication message, discard the normal response data and skip waking up the application processor, wherein the normal response data is used for indicating that the application server has already received the online indication message.

21. The terminal according to claim 16, wherein the modem is further configured to:

not adjust an initial heartbeat interval corresponding to an application of the at least two applications that has an initial heartbeat interval less than the preset time threshold, and

establish according to the heartbeat configuration information corresponding to the application interval, a heartbeat connection with an application server corresponding to the application of the at least two applications that has an initial heartbeat interval less than the preset time threshold.