Mobile application traffic optimization

• US 10,805,834 B1
• Filed: 07/01/2020
• Issued: 10/13/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seven Networks LLC (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Seven Networks LLC (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Luna, Michael, Backholm, Ari
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Ajit
• Application Number:
  US16/918,339
• Publication Number:
  US 20200336936A1
• Time in Patent Office: 104 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/122 by diverting traffic away from congested entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/25 with rate being modified by the source upon detecting a change of network conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/65 Network streaming protocols, e.g. real-time transport protocol [RTP] or real-time control protocol [RTCP]
• 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 67/2885 Hierarchically arranged intermediate devices, e.g. for hierarchical caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/289 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data consumer application, e.g. in same machine, in same home or in same sub-network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5683 Storage of data provided by user terminals, i.e. reverse caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/02 Traffic management, e.g. flow control or congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0289 Congestion control load shedding arrangements in network planning H04W16/08; performing reselection for handling the traffic H04W36/22; wireless traffic scheduling H04W72/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/10 Flow control between communication endpoints
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/25 Maintenance of established connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/042 Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/182 Network node acting on behalf of an other network entity, e.g. proxy
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A system with distributed proxy for reducing traffic in a wireless network satisfies data requests made by a mobile application. The system includes a mobile device having a local proxy for intercepting a data request made by the mobile application. The local proxy simulates application server responses for the mobile application on the mobile device for data requests where responses are available in the local cache. A proxy server is coupled to the mobile device and an application server to which the data request is made. The proxy server is able to communicate with the local proxy. The local proxy forwards the data request to the proxy server for transmission to the application server for a response to the data request. The proxy server queries the application server for any changes to the data request that the mobile application has previously made and notifies the local proxy of such changes.

Claims

1. A mobile device configured to optimize connections made by the mobile device in a wireless network, the mobile device comprising:

a memory;

a radio; and

a processor, the mobile device configured to;

batch data from a first application and a second application for transmission to a respective first application server and a second application server over the wireless network,

wherein, the batched data from the first application and the second application is batched while a backlight of the mobile device is off in response to inactivity of the mobile device;

allow a first message from a remote server distinct from the first application server and the second application server to be received at the mobile device while the batched data from the first application and the second application is batched, wherein the first message is received over a connection between the mobile device and the remote server that is maintained by sending keep-alive messages between the mobile device and the remote server;

wherein the first message from the remote server is directed to the first application and contains data from the first application server and is associated with the mobile device and the first application,

wherein the first message is generated in response to new data at the first application server;

transmit a second message associated with the first application to the first application server in response to receipt of the first message from the remote server;

transmit the batched data to the respective first application server and the second application server through connections to the first application server and the second application server over the wireless network while the backlight of the mobile device remains off;

wherein the batching of data for the first application and the second application can be enabled or disabled by a user of the mobile device on an application-by-application basis.

2. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the batched data includes background data.

3. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein transmission of the batched data occurs within a dynamically adjustable time window.

4. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein additional data from the first application and the second application is batched after the batched data has been transmitted, and, wherein the additional data from the first application and the second application is batched while the backlight remains off.

5. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is configured to transmit the batched data from the first application and the second application based on a time that one of the first application and the second application was last accessed.

6. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is configured to batch and transmit the batched data from the first application and the second application by aligning transmission of outgoing network traffic.

7. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the first message from the remote server is indicative of availability of new data at the first application server.

8. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is configured to allow the first application to transmit data for a predetermined period of time in response to receipt of the first message from the remote server.