Mobile Pull Client Grouping for Network Resource Conservation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile devices experience significant resource overhead due to the frequent establishment and re-establishment of traffic channels for periodic data updates with servers, leading to increased network and communication resource usage.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a pull client on mobile devices that groups applications with similar timing requirements for data updates, allowing them to share a single traffic channel and reduce the need for consecutive network-resource-intensive sessions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If mobile devices establish separate traffic channels for each application's periodic updates, then each application receives timely data updates, but network resource overhead and signaling complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate traffic channels into a single shared channel. Multiple applications with different update timing requirements are merged into one consolidated data communication session, allowing all applications to access data through a single channel rather than requiring individual dedicated channels for each application.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements preliminary grouping of applications before data retrieval. Applications are pre-grouped based on their timing requirements and data needs, allowing the system to prepare and coordinate data requests in advance, thereby reducing the need for frequent channel establishment and re-establishment.
2Reliability
If traffic channels are established for each application update, then data is reliably delivered to each application, but authentication and validation processes consume excessive network resources
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple authentication and validation processes into a single centralized authentication event. Instead of authenticating each application separately when it needs data, the system performs one authentication event that serves all applications in the grouped session, significantly reducing the cumulative resource consumption of repeated authentication cycles.
3Productivity
If separate traffic channels are used for each application, then application-specific data can be delivered efficiently, but the number of sessions increases leading to higher overhead
Solution Approach 1:
The patent consolidates multiple data sessions into a single unified session. Instead of maintaining separate sessions for each application's data requests, the system merges all application data communications into one shared session, thereby reducing the total quantity of sessions from multiple to one while maintaining efficient data delivery to all applications.
Data Source
AI summary
Information is provided to a mobile device while reducing the number of traffic channels established over a predetermined time period. A pull client on a mobile device receives requests for information from applications on the mobile device. The pull client creates a timing list which includes the timing requirements for each application. Applications that have overlapping timing requirements are grouped together into the same timing group. Once the time for creating a traffic channel for one of the groups arrives, a traffic channel is created between the mobile device and a carrier gateway. Information for each respective application within the same timing group is obtained through the network using the same traffic channel. When the requested information is provided to all applications within the same timing group, the traffic channel is released after a predetermined time. The method is repeated for a next timing group entry.