MANAGING CACHE TO PREVENT OVERLOADING OF A WIRELESS NETWORK DUE TO USER ACTIVITY

• US 20130275586A1
• Filed: 06/06/2013
• Published: 10/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seven Networks LLC (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Seven Networks Inc
• Inventors: Luna, Michael, Bott, Ross
• Granted Patent: US 9,131,397 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/286 Time to live
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/04 Arrangements for maintaining operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/06 Optimizing the usage of the radio link, e.g. header compression, information sizing , discarding information system modifying transmission characteristic according to link quality by modifying frame length H04L1/0007; dynamic adaptation of the packet size for flow control or congestion control H04L47/365
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
• 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: Y02D 30/00 Reducing energy consumption in communication networks
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

System and method of detection and management of user interactions with foreground applications on a mobile device in distributed caching are disclosed. One embodiment includes a method of mimicking, remote from the mobile device, timing characteristics of user activity with the mobile client, polling a content source for the mobile application based on the timing characteristics of the user interaction, on behalf of the mobile device and allowing responses cached on the mobile device for the user activity to be used until a change at the content source is detected, remote from the mobile device.

Claims

1. A method for preventing overloading of a wireless network due to user activity of a user, the method, comprising:

querying a resource requested in the activity, but remote from the user, based on timing characteristics of the activity of the user in the wireless network;

receiving a response for the querying of the resource;

wherein the response is used to determine if cached content on the mobile device for the activity directed towards the resources is valid.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, the activity of the user is performed in using an application on a mobile device in the wireless network;

wherein the resource corresponds to the application on the mobile device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein, the activity is associated with a time to live indicating an amount of time for which the resource is to be queried remotely from the user.