Device Actions Based on Device Power

• US 20150156613A1
• Filed: 02/11/2015
• Published: 06/04/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Tal, Eran, Schillings, Benoit M., Toksvig, Michael John McKenzie, Garcia, David Harry
• Granted Patent: US 10,136,267 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• 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 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/203 for converged personal network application service interworking, e.g. OMA converged personal network services [CPNS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0225 using monitoring of external events, e.g. the presence of a signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0251 using monitoring of local events, e.g. events related to user activity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0261 managing power supply demand, e.g. depending on battery level
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

In one embodiment, one or more computing devices determine, substantially in real time and locally at a mobile device, one or more current dynamic operating conditions of the mobile device related to energy consumption by the mobile device. The computing devices identify a pre-determined device state that corresponds to the current dynamic operating conditions of the mobile device and determine, based at least in part on the pre-determined device state, an action for the mobile device to take, the action being related to energy consumption by the mobile device.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. A method comprising, by a server computing device:

receiving a message indicating a current notification mode of a mobile computing device, the current notification mode based at least in part on one or more operating conditions of the mobile computing device;

determining, based on the message, a current notification mode of the mobile computing device;

determining, based at least in part on the current notification mode of the mobile computing device, whether to transmit a communication to the mobile computing device.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the one or more operating conditions of the mobile computing device comprise a level of activity of a user with respect to the mobile computing device, the level of activity of the user determined based at least in part on an amount of input by the user to a user interface of the mobile computing device

23. The method of claim 21, wherein the one or more operating conditions of the mobile computing device comprise a power state of the mobile computing device.

24. The method of claim 21, wherein the one or more operating conditions of the mobile computing device comprise a connection of the mobile computing device to a wireless network.

25. The method of claim 21, wherein the one or more operating conditions of the mobile computing device comprise sensor data from one or more sensors of the mobile computing device.

26. The method of claim 21, wherein the one or more operating conditions of the mobile computing device comprise a time of day.

27. The method of claim 21, wherein the message identifies the current notification mode of the mobile computing device.

28. The method of claim 21, wherein:

the message comprises an identification of the one or more operating conditions; and

determining, based on the message, the current notification mode comprises determining, based on the current operating conditions, the current notification mode of the mobile computing device.

29. The method of claim 28, further comprising transmitting to the mobile computing device an identification of the current notification mode.

30. The method of claim 21, further comprising determining, based on the current notification mode of the mobile computing device, a radio connection for the mobile computing device.

31. The method of claim 21, wherein determining whether to transmit a communication to the mobile computing device comprises:

determining a value of the communication; and

determining, based at least on the current notification mode of the mobile computing device and a value of the communication, whether to transmit the communication to the mobile computing device.

32. The method of claim 31, wherein the value of the communication is based at least in part on an affinity score predicting a degree of interest a user of the mobile computing device has for the communication.

33. The method of claim 32, wherein the affinity score is based on the origin of the communication.

34. The method of claim 33, wherein the user is a user of a social network comprising a social graph, the social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, at least one node in the graph corresponding to the user, at least one node in the graph corresponding to the origin of the communication;

and

the affinity score is based on information represented by one or more of;

the social graph;

or

an action store associated with the social network.

35. The method of claim 31, wherein the value of the communication is based at least in part on an urgency of the communication.

36. The method of claim 31, wherein the value of the communication is based at least in part on a location of the mobile computing device.

37. The method of claim 31, further comprising:

adding the communication to a communications queue for the mobile device, each communication in the queue having a score representing a value of the communication;

determining the total score of the communications in the queue;

comparing the total score to a threshold score; and

when the total score exceeds the threshold score, transmitting to the mobile device the communications in the queue.

38. The method of claim 37, wherein the threshold score is based at least in part on one or more of:

the current notification mode of the mobile computing device;

or

a power state of the mobile computing device.

39. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media embodying software that is operable when executed by a server computing device to:

receive a message indicating a current notification mode of a mobile computing device, the current notification mode based at least in part on one or more operating conditions of the mobile computing device;

determine, based on the message, a current notification mode of the mobile computing device;

determine, based at least in part on the current notification mode of the mobile computing device, whether to transmit a communication to the mobile computing device.

40. A system comprising:

one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media embodying instructions;

one or more processors coupled to the storage media and operable to execute the instructions to;

receive a message indicating a current notification mode of a mobile computing device, the current notification mode based at least in part on one or more operating conditions of the mobile computing device;

determine, based on the message, a current notification mode of the mobile computing device;

determine, based at least in part on the current notification mode of the mobile computing device, whether to transmit a communication to the mobile computing device.