Apparatus and method for controlling traffic of electronic device

• US 9,609,596 B2
• Filed: 01/14/2015
• Issued: 03/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Ok-Seon, Kang, Hyeon-Jin, Moon, Sang-Jun, Park, Yong-Seok, Yoon, Kang-Jin
• Primary Examiner(s): Han, Clemence
• Application Number:
  US14/596,748
• Publication Number:
  US 20150201391A1
• Time in Patent Office: 804 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/554 involving event detection and direct action
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/00 Arrangements for program control, e.g. control units program control for peripheral devices G06F13/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0215 based on user or device properties, e.g. MTC-capable devices services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC] H04W4/70; wireless resource selection or allocation plan definition based on terminal or device properties H04W72/51
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• 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 40/22 using selective relaying for reaching a BTS [Base Transceiver Station] or an access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0229 where the received signal is a wanted signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/0015 one node acting as a reference for the others
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

An apparatus and a method for controlling traffic of a second electronic device, which interworks with a first electronic device, in the first electronic device is provided. The method includes detecting occurrence of an event which needs to be notified to the second electronic device, determining a time to notify the occurrence of the event based on a driving time of the second electronic device, and transmitting an event occurrence notification signal to the second electronic device at the determined notification time.

Claims

1. A method for operating an electronic device in a wireless environment, the method comprising:

transmitting, to at least one other electronic device, a first signal for notifying a first event at a first timing;

identifying a second event to be notified to the at least one other electronic device; and

transmitting, to the at least one other electronic device, a second signal for notifying the second event at a second timing, wherein the second timing is determined based on the first timing at which the first signal is transmitted and a driving time of the at least one other electronic device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting of the second signal for notifying the second event comprises:

determining whether the driving time of the at least one other electronic device elapses from the first time at which the first signal for notifying the first event was transmitted to the at least one other electronic device;

determining, if the driving time of the at least one other electronic device does not elapse from the first time, a present time as the second timing to transmit the second signal for notifying the second event; and

determining, if the driving time of the at least one other electronic device elapses from the first time, a time at which a screen of the electronic device is turned off as the second timing to transmit the second signal for notifying the second event.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting of the second signal for notifying the second event comprises:

determining a period for identifying at least one event to occur based on the driving time of the at least one other electronic device; and

determining a time at which the period elapses as the second timing to transmit a signal for notifying the at least one event.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the transmitting of the second signal for notifying the second event comprises controlling to transmit the signal for notifying at least one event which occurs during the period at a timing at which the period expires.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the transmitting of the second signal for notifying the second event comprises determining the period based on the driving time of the at least one other electronic device and a time of communication between the electronic device and the at least one other electronic device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the driving time of the at least one other electronic device comprises a time during which the at least one other electronic device is operated in an active state.

7. An apparatus for an electronic device in a wireless environment, the apparatus comprising:

at least one transmitter operatively coupled to the at least one processor, and configured to transmit, to at least one other electronic device, a first signal for notifying a first event at a first timing; and

at least one processor configured to identify a second event to be notified to the at least one other electronic device,

wherein the at least one transmitter is further configured to transmit, to the at least one other electronic device, a second signal for notifying the second event at a second timing, and

wherein the second event is determined based on the first timing at which the first signal is transmitted and a driving time of the at least one other electronic device.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

determine whether the driving time of the at least one other electronic device elapses from the first time at which the first signal was transmitted to the at least one other electronic device,

if the driving time of the at least one other electronic device does not elapse from the first time, determine a present time as the second timing to transmit the second signal for notifying the second event, and

if the driving time of the at least one other electronic device elapses from the first time, determine a time at which a screen of the electronic device is turned off as the second timing to transmit the second signal for notifying the second event.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

determine a period for identifying at least one event to be occurred based on the driving time of the at least one other electronic device, and

determine a time at which the period elapses as the notification time to transmit a signal for notifying the at least one event.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to control to transmit the signal for notifying the at least one event which occurs during the period at a timing at which the period expires.

11. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein the at least one processor is further configured to determine the period based on the driving time of the at least one other electronic device and a time of communication between the electronic device and the at least one other electronic device.

12. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the driving time of the at least one other electronic device comprises a time during which the at least one other electronic device is operated in an active state.