Adaptive Crowdsourced Keep-Alive Interval Determination

摘要

A system and method of determining a keep-alive interval for a network access point (AP) employs adaptive learning and crowd sourced data building to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of mobile device connectivity. In particular, in addition to allowing group accessed storage of resolved keep-alive intervals for specific APs, the disclosed principles provide a mechanism for resolving the keep-alive interval for any AP upon first encounter, allowing devices to maintain connectivity during a session without consuming bandwidth unnecessarily by sending superfluous keep-alive messages.

主权项

1. A method of connecting from a mobile device to the internet via an access point (AP), the AP supporting a time out of any connection that is idle for longer than a keep-alive interval, the keep-alive interval being initially unknown to the mobile device, the method comprising:
detecting that the mobile device is within range of the AP; connecting from the mobile device to the AP, and via the AP, to an entity on the internet; determining whether data regarding the keep-alive interval of the AP has been stored, and if so, obtaining the stored keep-alive data, and otherwise adaptively determining the keep-alive interval by sending keep-alive messages at a variable interval to the AP until the keep-alive interval of the AP is resolved.