Bundling data transfers and employing tail optimization protocol to manage cellular radio resource utilization

• US 9,699,737 B2
• Filed: 07/16/2015
• Issued: 07/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Mao, Zhuoqing, Gerber, Alexandre, Qian, Feng, Sen, Subhabrata, Spatscheck, Oliver, Wang, Zhaoguang
• Primary Examiner(s): Chea, Philip
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen, Van Kim T
• Application Number:
  US14/801,793
• Publication Number:
  US 20150327057A1
• Time in Patent Office: 719 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS
• 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 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0238 where the received signal is an unwanted signal, e.g. interference or idle signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0251 using monitoring of local events, e.g. events related to user activity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/52 based on load
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/20 Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/00 Reducing energy consumption in communication networks
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

To facilitate increasing power and resource efficiency of a mobile device, in the mobile device, with regard to periodic or one-time data transfers, a communication management component can analyze information comprising data transfer parameter information, including jitter information, associated with each application of a subset of applications used by the device and can desirably schedule and/or bundle data transfers associated with the applications to reduce the number of separate data bursts to transfer that data to thereby reduce use of wireless resources and power consumption by the device. A push notification system can receive respective jitter information associated with each application from the mobile device, and the push notification system can desirably schedule and/or bundle push notifications to reduce the number of separate data bursts sent to the device to reduce use of wireless resources and power consumption by the device.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

determining, by a system comprising a processor, whether a first data transfer of data transfers and a second data transfer of the data transfers are to be grouped to form a data burst in response to determining whether a first jitter time window associated with the first data transfer at least partially overlaps a second jitter time window associated with the second data transfer based on a result of a comparison of first jitter information that defines the first jitter window and second jitter information that defines the second jitter window, wherein the data transfers are associated with a communication device; and

scheduling, by the system, a transmission of the data burst, comprising the first data transfer and the second data transfer, in response to determining that the first data transfer and the second data transfer are to be grouped to form the data burst.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first jitter information defines the first jitter time window as a first period of time during which the first data transfer is allowed to be transmitted and the second jitter information defines the second jitter time window as a second period of time during which the second data transfer is allowed to be transmitted.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting, by the system, the data burst based on the scheduling.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying, by the system, the data transfers, wherein the data transfers relate to applications;

identifying, by the system, data transfer parameters respectively associated with the data transfers; and

analyzing, by the system, the data transfer parameters, comprising jitter information respectively associated with the data transfers, to generate an analysis result, in accordance with a defined communication criterion, wherein the jitter information comprises the first jitter information and the second jitter information.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

determining, by the system, that the first data transfer is to be grouped with the second data transfer to form the data burst, based on the analysis result; and

grouping, by the system, the first data transfer and the second data transfer to form the data burst.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

comparing, by the system, the first jitter information that indicates the first jitter time window associated with the first data transfer to the second jitter information that indicates the second jitter time window associated with the second data transfer; and

determining, by the system, the first data transfer is to be grouped with the second data transfer to form the data burst in response to determining the first jitter time window associated with the first data transfer at least partially corresponds to the second jitter time window associated with the second data transfer based on the comparing.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

comparing, by the system, third jitter information that indicates a third jitter time window associated with a third data transfer of the data transfers to the first jitter information that indicates the first jitter time window associated with the first data transfer, wherein the first jitter information defines the first jitter time window as a first period of time during which the first data transfer is allowed to be transmitted and the third jitter information defines the third jitter window as a third period of time during which the third data transfer is allowed to be transmitted; and

determining, by the system, the third data transfer is not to be grouped with the first data transfer in the data burst in response to determining the third jitter time window associated with the third data transfer does not correspond to the first jitter window associated with the first data transfer based on the comparing.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

controlling, by the system, a tail time for transition of the communication device from a higher power communication state to a lower power communication state based on data transfer parameters respectively associated with the data transfers.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the data transfers comprise a push notification message, and wherein the method further comprises:

determining, by the system, a jitter time window associated with the push notification message based on data transfer parameters associated with the push notification message, wherein the data transfer parameters comprise a jitter parameter that indicates the jitter time window; and

determining, by the system, whether another data transfer has been received during the jitter time window.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

transmitting, by the system, the push notification message in another data burst in accordance with the jitter time window, in response to determining that no other data transfer was received during the jitter time window.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

grouping, by the system, the push notification message and the other data transfer in another data burst, in response to determining that the other data transfer was received during the jitter time window; and

transmitting, by the system, the other data burst comprising the push notification message and the other data burst in accordance with the jitter time window.

12. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising;

determining whether a first data transfer of data transfers and a second data transfer of the data transfers are to be bundled to form a data burst in response to determining whether a first jitter time period associated with the first data transfer at least partially overlaps a second jitter time period associated with the second data transfer based on a result of comparing first jitter information that defines the first jitter time period and second jitter information that defines the second jitter time period, wherein the data transfers are associated with a wireless device; and

scheduling communication of the data burst, comprising the first data transfer and the second data transfer, in response to determining that the first data transfer and the second data transfer are to be bundled to form the data burst.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the first jitter information defines the first jitter time period as a first period of time during which the first data transfer is permitted to be communicated and the second jitter information defines the second jitter time period as a second period of time during which the second data transfer is permitted to be communicated.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise:

communicating the data burst in accordance with the scheduling.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise:

identifying data transfer parameters respectively associated with the data transfers, wherein the data transfers relate to applications associated with the wireless device; and

analyzing the data transfer parameters, comprising jitter information respectively associated with respective data transfers of the data transfers, to generate an analysis result, in accordance with a defined communication criterion, wherein the jitter information comprises the first jitter information and the second jitter information.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining the first data transfer and the second data transfer are to be bundled to form the data burst, based on the analysis result; and

bundling the first data transfer and the second data transfer to form the data burst.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise:

comparing the first jitter information that indicates the first jitter time period associated with the first data transfer to the second jitter information that indicates the second jitter time period associated with the second data transfer; and

determining that the first jitter time period associated with the first data transfer at least partially overlaps the second jitter time period associated with the second data transfer based on the comparing; and

determining that the first data transfer and the second data transfer are to be bundled to form the data burst in response to determining that the first jitter time period at least partially overlaps the second jitter time period.

18. The system of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise:

comparing third jitter information that indicates a third jitter time period associated with a third data transfer of the data transfers to the second jitter information that indicates the second jitter time period associated with the second data transfer; and

determining the third data transfer is not to be bundled with the second data transfer in the data burst in response to determining that the third jitter time period associated with the third data transfer does not overlap the second jitter time period associated with the second data transfer based on the comparing of the third jitter information to the second jitter information.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable storage device storing executable instructions that, in response to execution, cause a system comprising a processor to perform operations, comprising:

determining whether a first data transfer of data transfers and a second data transfer of the data transfers are to be grouped to form a data burst in response to determining whether a first jitter time period associated with the first data transfer at least partially corresponds with a second jitter time period associated with the second data transfer based on a result of an evaluation of first jitter data that defines the first jitter time period and second jitter data that defines the second jitter time period, wherein the data transfers are associated with a communication device; and

facilitating transmitting the data burst, comprising the first data transfer and the second data transfer, in response to determining that the first data transfer and the second data transfer are to be grouped to form the data burst.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage device of claim 19, wherein the first jitter data defines the first jitter time period as a first period of time during which the first data transfer is permitted to be transmitted and the second jitter data defines the second jitter time period as a second period of time during which the second data transfer is permitted to be transmitted.