OPTIMIZING KEEPALIVE AND OTHER BACKGROUND TRAFFIC IN A WIRELESS NETWORK

摘要

Systems and methods for optimizing keepalives or other non-interactive or background traffic from applications on a mobile device are disclosed. A keepalive optimizer can detect keepalive and other background traffic and optimize such traffic by blocking keepalives, advancing or delaying execution of keepalives, delaying repeatable background requests based on radio state, device state or characteristics, policy, transaction characteristics, application characteristics, and/or the like. The disclosed keepalive optimization methods facilitate management of traffic and/or conservation of resources on the mobile device and the network. The keepalive optimization can be performed by an application sending the keepalives or by a local proxy on the mobile device.

主权项

1. A method for managing applications configured for execution on a mobile device, comprising;
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.