ENERGY EFFICIENT DATA HANDLING FOR MOBILE DEVICES

摘要

The techniques described herein reduce a rate at which a mobile device consumes energy when receiving, processing and storing data events (e.g., emails, instant messages, social networking messages and notifications, etc.). In various embodiments, the techniques may be implemented in accordance with a connected standby mode of operation for the mobile device. Therefore, the techniques may decouple data reception from data processing when exchanging data events in the connected standby mode. In various embodiments, the techniques may store persistent memory operations for multiple data events in a temporary cache and process the stored persistent memory operations as a batch (e.g., perform the persistent memory operations together). In various embodiments, the techniques may partition data storage space allocated for data communications applications on the mobile device.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
determining that first data associated with a first data event is waiting to be communicated from a data server to a mobile device operating in a connected standby mode; switching a network interface on the mobile device from a low energy consumption state of the connected standby mode to a high energy consumption state of the connected standby mode; receiving, by the network interface on the mobile device and from the data server, the first data associated with the first data event; sending, from the mobile device to the data server, an indication that the mobile device is ready to receive a second data event from the data server, wherein the mobile device sends the indication prior to completing processing of the first data; receiving, by the network interface on the mobile device and from the data server, second data associated with the second data event; switching the network interface from the high energy consumption state of the connected standby mode to the low energy consumption state of the connected standby mode after receiving the second data associated with the second data event; and completing the processing of at least the first data after the network interface is switched from the high energy consumption state of the connected standby mode to the low energy consumption state of the connected standby mode.