BLOCKING/UNBLOCKING ALGORITHMS FOR SIGNALING OPTIMIZATION IN A WIRELESS NETWORK FOR TRAFFIC UTILIZING PROPRIETARY AND NON-PROPRIETARY PROTOCOLS

• US 20150295845A1
• Filed: 06/23/2015
• Published: 10/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seven Networks LLC (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Seven Networks Inc
• Inventors: Yoon, Sungwook, Backholm, Ari
• Granted Patent: US 10,097,477 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4856 resumption being on a different machine, e.g. task migration, virtual machine migration G06F9/5088 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/18 Protocol analysers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/24 Traffic characterised by specific attributes, e.g. priority or QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2517 using port numbers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2567 for reachability, e.g. inquiring the address of a correspondent behind a NAT server
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2582 through control of the NAT server, e.g. using universal plug and play [UPnP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/163 In-band adaptation of TCP data exchange; In-band control procedures
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0284 detecting congestion or overload during communication monitoring arrangements H04L43/00
• 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 68/02 Arrangements for increasing efficiency of notification or paging channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/22 Manipulation of transport tunnels

Abstract

A method of optimizing traffic on a mobile device includes determining that an application is inactive based on historical behavior of the application and blocking traffic originating from or directed towards the application that is determined to be inactive based on historical behavior. A related mobile device is also provided.

Claims

1. A method of optimizing traffic on a mobile device, comprising:

determining that an application is inactive based on historical behavior of the application;

blocking traffic originating from or directed towards the application that is determined to be inactive based on historical behavior.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein blocking traffic further includes blocking traffic after a period of time that the screen of the mobile device has been off.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein blocking traffic further includes blocking traffic based on state of resources of the mobile device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein blocking traffic further includes blocking traffic based on cost of the application.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein, before blocking traffic originating from or directed towards the inactive application, the method includes beginning polling offload optimization.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein, before blocking traffic originating from or directed towards the inactive application, the method includes aligning transactions from different applications on the same radio connection.

7. The method of claim 1, further including applying a signaling optimization strategy to background traffic that is different than an applied signaling optimization strategy of foreground traffic.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein blocking traffic originating from or directed towards the inactive application is stopped when a backlight of the mobile device is on.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein blocking traffic originating from or directed towards the inactive application is stopped when the mobile device screen is on.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein, when an application stays in the background beyond a configurable timeout value, blocking traffic originating from or directed towards the inactive application resumes.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the historical behavior includes a determination of poll intervals and patterns related to historical traffic.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein blocking traffic originating from or directed towards the inactive application is stopped when a push message is received.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein an application behavior detector on the mobile device determines that the application is inactive based on the historical behavior of the application, and the application behavior detector detects whether an application is operating in the background or foreground.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein blocking traffic originating from or directed towards the inactive application comprises blocking for a portion of time and ceasing blocking for a remaining portion of time.

15. A mobile device having computer executable instructions stored thereon and configured to:

determine that an application is inactive based on historical behavior of the application; and

block traffic originating from or directed towards the application that is determined to be inactive based on historical data.

16. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the mobile device is configured to block traffic after a period of time that the screen of the mobile device has been off.

17. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the mobile device is configured to block traffic based on state of resources of the mobile device.

18. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the mobile device is configured to block traffic based on cost of the application.

19. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein, before blocking traffic originating from or directed towards the inactive application, the mobile device is configured to begin polling offload optimization.

20. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein, before blocking traffic originating from or directed towards the inactive application, the mobile device is configure to align transactions from different applications on the same radio connection.

21. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the mobile device is configured to apply a signaling optimization strategy to background traffic that is different than an applied signaling optimization strategy of foreground traffic.

22. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the mobile device is configured such that blocking traffic originating from or directed towards the inactive application is stopped when a backlight of the mobile device is on.

23. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the mobile device is configured such that blocking traffic originating from or directed towards the inactive application is stopped when the mobile device screen is on.

24. The mobile device of claim 23, wherein, when an application stays in the background beyond a configurable timeout value, the mobile device is configured to block traffic originating from or directed towards the inactive application resumes.

25. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the historical behavior includes a determination of poll intervals and patterns related to historical traffic.

26. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the mobile device is configured such that blocking traffic originating from or directed towards the inactive application is stopped when a push message is received.

27. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein an application behavior detector on the mobile device determines that the application is inactive based on the historical behavior of the application, and the application behavior detector detects whether an application is operating in the background or foreground.

28. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the mobile device is configured such that blocking traffic originating from or directed towards the inactive application comprises blocking for a portion of time and ceasing blocking for a remaining portion of time.