Data processing method, modem, and terminal

• US 9,904,345 B2
• Filed: 12/04/2014
• Issued: 02/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Device Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Device, Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Zhang, Yue, Jiang, Peng, Li, Qilin
• Primary Examiner(s): Gilles, Jude Jean
• Application Number:
  US14/561,019
• Publication Number:
  US 20150106637A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,181 Days
• Field of Search: 709200-207, 709216-218, 709223-234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3218 of display devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/02 Power saving arrangements in wired systems H04L12/12; signaling of mobile application services, e.g. low battery notifications H04W4/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/027 by controlling a display operation or backlight unit
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

The present invention discloses a data processing method, the method including obtaining an application packet sent by a network side device, obtaining a status of a screen of a terminal from a screen monitoring module in the terminal, where the status of the screen of the terminal includes a screen-on state and a screen-off state, and when the screen is in the screen-off state, skipping waking up an application processor, and temporarily storing the obtained application packet. In the data processing method provided by embodiments of the present invention, when it is obtained that the screen is in the screen-off state, the obtained application packet is temporarily stored, and an AP is not woken up, thereby reducing power consumption of the terminal.

Claims

1. A data processing method, the method comprising:

obtaining, by a modem of a terminal, an application packet sent by a network side device;

obtaining a status of a screen of the terminal, wherein the status of the screen of the terminal comprises a screen-on state and a screen-off state;

in response to determining that the screen is in in the screen-off state;

avoiding waking up an application processor; and

temporarily storing the obtained application packet;

repeatedly obtaining the status of the screen of the terminal while the screen is in the screen-off state;

waking up the applications processor in response to determining that the status of the screen changes from the screen-off state to the screen-on state; and

pushing, to the application processor, the temporarily stored application packet, while changing from the screen-off state to the screen-on state.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

starting timing when a first obtained application packet is temporarily stored; and

when a preset time is reached, and if the screen is in the screen-off state since the starting timing;

waking up the application processor; and

pushing application packets temporarily stored during the preset time to the application processor.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

monitoring a total amount of memory occupied by temporarily stored application packets; and

when the total amount of memory reaches a preset amount, and the screen is in the screen-off state;

waking up the application processor; and

pushing the temporarily stored application packets to the application processor.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the pushing the temporarily stored application packets to the application processor comprises:

pushing the temporarily stored application packets to the application processor in an order in which application packets are temporarily stored.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein when it is obtained that the screen is in the screen-on state:

waking up the application processor; and

pushing the obtained application packet to the application processor.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the obtaining an application packet sent by a network side device comprises:

receiving a protocol application packet sent by the network side device, wherein the protocol application packet is encoded by a network side device and the terminal by a negotiation; and

parsing the protocol application packet in a decoding manner corresponding to the negotiated encoding, and obtaining the application packet.

7. A modem comprising:

an input device configured to obtain an application packet sent by a network side device;

a memory; and

a processor configured to;

obtain a status of a screen of a terminal from a screen monitoring module in the terminal, wherein the status of the screen of the terminal comprises a screen-on state and a screen-off state;

in response to determining that the screen is in the screen-off state;

temporarily store the obtained application packet in the memory; and

avoid waking up an application processor;

start a timer in response to temporarily storing the obtained application packet; and

wake up the application processor in response to reaching a preset period of time after starting the timer.

8. The modem according to claim 7, wherein:

the processor is further configured to;

after temporarily storing the obtained application packet, continually obtain the status of the screen of the terminal from the screen monitoring module; and

when it is obtained that the status of the screen changes from the screen-off state to the screen-on state, wake up the application processor; and

wherein the modem further comprises an output device configured to push, to the application processor, the application packet temporarily stored before changing from the screen-off state to the screen-on state.

9. The modem according to claim 7, further comprising:

an output device configured to push application packets temporarily stored during the preset period of time to the application processor in response to reaching the preset period of time after starting the timer, wherein the screen remains in the screen-off state during the preset period of time.

10. The modem according to claim 7, wherein:

the processor is further configured to;

monitor a total amount of memory that is occupied by application packets temporarily stored by the memory; and

when the total amount of memory reaches a preset amount, and the screen is in the screen-off state, wake up the application processor; and

wherein the modem further comprises an output device configured to push the temporarily stored application packets to the application processor.

11. The modem according to claim 10, further comprising:

an output device configured to push the temporarily stored application packets to the application processor in an order in which application packets are temporarily stored.

12. The modem according to claim 7, wherein:

the processor is further configured to;

when it is obtained that the screen is in the screen-on state, wake up the application processor; and

wherein the modem further comprises an output device configured to push the obtained application packet to the application processor.

13. The modem according to claim 7, wherein:

the input device is configured to receive a protocol application packet sent by the network side device, wherein the protocol application packet is encoded by a network side device and the terminal by a negotiation protocol; and

the processor is further configured to parse the protocol application packet in a decoding manner corresponding to negotiated encoding, and obtain the application packet.

14. A method comprising:

obtaining, by a modem of a terminal, an application packet sent by a network side device;

obtaining a status of a screen of the terminal, wherein the status of the screen of the terminal comprises a screen-on state and a screen-off state;

in response to determining that the screen is in in the screen-off state;

avoiding waking up an application processor; and

temporarily storing the obtained application packet;

monitoring a total amount of memory occupied by temporarily stored application packets; and

waking up the application processor in response to the total amount of memory occupied by the temporarily stored application packets reaching a preset amount of memory.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising pushing the temporarily stored application packets to the application processor in response to total amount of memory occupied by the temporarily stored application packets reaching the preset amount of memory while the screen is in the screen-off state.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein pushing the temporarily stored application packets to the application processor comprises pushing the temporarily stored application packets to the application processor in an order in which application packets are temporarily stored.