APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DELIVERY CONTROL OF APPLICATION DATA TO A MOBILE DEVICE IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK

摘要

Apparatus and methods are provided for buffering application data from one or more application servers to be transmitted to a mobile device at a suitable opportunity. The application data may be buffered at the application servers, or at a delivery control server. An opportunity to transmit the application data may arise in accordance with detected user activity at the mobile device, or predicted imminent user activity at the mobile device, indicating that the user may wish to receive the application data.