US 9,648,564 B1 · Wake-up management for mobile devices

Abstract

A processing device identifies a plurality of wake-ups that are requested by one or more applications and applies a wake-up restriction policy to the plurality of wake-ups. Applying the wake-up restriction policy to a wake-up of the plurality of wake-ups comprises determining whether the wake-up conforms to the wake-up restriction policy. Responsive to determining that the wake-up conforms to the wake-up restriction policy, the processing device permits the wake-up to activate at least one of the processing device or an additional processing device. Responsive to determining that the alarm wake-up will violate the wake-up restriction policy, the processing device prevents the wake-up from later activating at least one of the processing device or the additional processing device.

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Dependent claims

A mobile device comprising:

a processing device to:
determine a first subset of a plurality of applications;
determine a second subset of the plurality of applications;
perform a transmission control protocol (TCP) reset for each application of the first subset;
and
add an entry for each application in the second subset to a list comprising applications to be restricted by a network wake-up filter, wherein an entry for a first application in the second subset comprises a source identifier associated with the first application;
and
a network component that includes the network wake-up filter and is operatively coupled to the processing device, the network component to:
receive a packet from a remote server;
identify a source of the packet;
determine that the source identifier in the list matches the source;
and
drop the packet.

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A method comprising:

gathering, by a processing device, information about device wake-up events associated with a plurality of applications, wherein the device wake-up events comprise Wi-Fi wake-up events that activate the processing device responsive to receipt of packets over Wi-Fi;
determining, by the processing device, statistics about the device wake-up events associated with the plurality of applications;
identifying a first subset of the plurality of applications that are associated with at least a first percentage of the device wake-up events;
performing a transmission control protocol (TCP) reset for each application of the first subset;
identifying a second subset of the plurality of applications that are associated with at least a second percentage of the device wake-up events;
applying a wake-up restriction policy by adding an entry for each application in the second subset to a list comprising applications to be restricted by a network wake-up filter, wherein an entry for a first application in the second subset comprises a source identifier associated with the first application;
receiving a packet from a remote server by a Wi-Fi component that includes the network wake-up filter;
identifying a source of the packet;
determining that the source identifier in the list matches the source;
and
dropping the packet by the Wi-Fi component without waking the processing device, wherein dropping the packet enables the packet to be deleted without the processing device being informed of the packet.

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A computer readable storage medium having instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

determining a first subset of a plurality of applications;
determining a second subset of the plurality of applications;
performing a transmission control protocol (TCP) reset for each application of the first subset;
adding an entry for each application in the second subset to a list comprising applications to be restricted by a network wake-up filter, wherein an entry for a first application in the second subset comprises a source identifier associated with the first application;
receiving a packet from a remote server by a network component that comprises the network wake-up filter;
identifying a source of the packet;
determining that the source identifier in the list matches the source;
and
preventing the wake-up from activating the processing device by dropping the packet.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Wake-up management for mobile devices

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