METHOD FOR MAINTAINING CONNECTION BETWEEN TERMINAL AND NETWORK SERVER, TERMINAL AND NETWORK SERVER

摘要

A method for maintaining the connection between a terminal and a network server is disclosed by the present invention, the terminal has a first processing unit and the first processing unit has a first state and a second state, wherein the power consumption of the second state is less than the power consumption of the first state, the method includes that: the first processing unit is in the second state, the terminal or the network server sends heartbeat data packets periodically in order to maintain the connection between said terminal and said network server. According to the present invention, during the period that the terminal or the network server sends heartbeat data packets periodically, a main processor of the terminal will not be woken up, accordingly enabling the terminal in a sleep state to maintain the connection with the network server and be not woken up due to the heartbeat data packets sent by the network server, therefore the power consumption of the terminal can be reduced.