OPTIMIZATION OF RESOURCE POLLING INTERVALS TO SATISFY MOBILE DEVICE REQUESTS

• US 20150181617A1
• Filed: 02/24/2015
• Published: 06/25/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seven Networks LLC (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Seven Networks Inc
• Inventors: Luna, Michael
• Granted Patent: US 9,661,103 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/80 Actions related to the user profile or the type of traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/803 Application aware
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/822 Collecting or measuring resource availability data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/043 using or handling presence information
• 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: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/566 Grouping or aggregating service requests, e.g. for unified processing
• 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: H04L 67/61 taking into account QoS or priority requirements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/62 Establishing a time schedule for servicing the requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/02 Arrangements for optimising operational condition
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/06 using polling
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A method for managing applications configured for execution on a mobile device is provided. The method includes receiving one or more network access requests from one or more applications executing on the mobile device, determining that the mobile device is operating in a background mode, suppressing transmission to a network of the one or more network access requests based on the determination, and transmitting a subset of the one or more network access requests upon transition out of the background mode.

Claims

1. A method for aligning data transfer to a mobile device to optimize connections made by the mobile device in a cellular network, the method, comprising:

batching data received in multiple transactions directed to a mobile device for transmission to the mobile device over the cellular network such that a wireless connection need not be established with the mobile device every time each of the multiple transactions occurs;

determining whether to send or to suppress sending the data to the mobile device based on a time criticality of the data;

wherein, when the data includes new or changed data that is identified as being time critical by nature of the content of the data, sending the data to the mobile device;

wherein, when the data includes new or changed data that is identified as not being time critical by nature of the content of the data, suppressing sending the data to the mobile device by waiting to send the data to the mobile device until after a period of time has expired or until there is additional data to be sent.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, the data received in the multiple transactions for the mobile device is sent to the mobile device, in a single transaction over a single instantiation of wireless network connectivity at the mobile device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein, the multiple transactions do not occur at the same time.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein, the multiple transactions occur within a time window which is predetermined and dynamically adjustable.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein, the data received in the multiple transactions are directed to different clients on the mobile device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein, the data received in the multiple transactions is received from different web services that a user of the mobile device is subscribed to.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the suppressing is performed by a proxy server coupled to a host server and able to wirelessly connect to the mobile device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the method includes determining whether to send or to suppress sending the data to the mobile device based on whether an application on the mobile device to which data is relevant is running in a foreground, wherein the method includes sending the data to the mobile device if the application is in the foreground of the mobile device, and suppressing the sending of the new or changed data if the application is in the background on the mobile device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the method includes sending the data to the mobile device if the application is in the foreground of the mobile device and in an active state interacting with a user on the mobile device and/or whether a user is waiting for a response that would be provided in the data.

10. A system for aligning data transfer to a mobile device to optimize connections made by the mobile device in a cellular network, the system comprising:

a server for batching data received in multiple transactions directed to a mobile device for transmission to the mobile device over the cellular network such that a wireless connection need not be established with the mobile device every time each of the multiple transactions occurs;

wherein the server is configured to determine whether to send or to suppress sending the data to the mobile device based on a time criticality of the data;

wherein the server is configured to, when the data includes new or changed data that is identified as being time critical by nature of the content of the data, send the data to the mobile device;

wherein the server is configured to, when the data includes new or changed data that is identified as not being time critical by nature of the content of the data, suppress sending the data to the mobile device by waiting to send the data to the mobile device until after a period of time has expired or until there is additional data to be sent.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein, the data received in the multiple transactions for the mobile device is sent to the mobile device, in a single transaction over a single instantiation of wireless network connectivity at the mobile device.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein, the multiple transactions do not occur at the same time.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein, the multiple transactions occur within a time window which is predetermined and dynamically adjustable.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein, the data received in the multiple transactions are directed to different clients on the mobile device.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein, the data received in the multiple transactions is received from different web services that a user of the mobile device is subscribed to.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein the suppressing is performed by a proxy server coupled to a host server and able to wirelessly connect to the mobile device.

17. The system of claim 10, wherein the system is configured to determine whether to send or to suppress sending the data to the mobile device based on whether an application on the mobile device to which data is relevant is running in a foreground, wherein the system is configured to send the data to the mobile device if the application is in the foreground of the mobile device and suppress the sending of the new or changed data if the application is in the background on the mobile device.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the system is configured to send the data to the mobile device if the application is in the foreground of the mobile device and in an active state interacting with a user on the mobile device and/or whether a user is waiting for a response that would be provided in the data.