Abstract: Systems and methods for tracking resources used by triggers such as alarms and timers that are used by mobile applications to schedule tasks and intelligently manipulating the timing of the triggers to optimize usage of resources such as, but not limited to: network, battery, CPU and/or memory are disclosed. In one embodiment, an intelligent alarm manipulator and resource tracker tracks triggers from multiple applications on a mobile device and corresponding use of resources resulting from the triggers on a mobile device. The intelligent alarm manipulator and resource tracker further determines correlations between the triggers and the corresponding use of the resources on the mobile device and manipulates, based on the correlations, timing or frequency of some or all of the triggers to optimize the use of the resources on the mobile device.
Abstract: A system with distributed proxy for reducing traffic in a wireless network satisfies data requests made by a mobile application. The system includes a mobile device having a local proxy for intercepting a data request made by the mobile application. The local proxy simulates application server responses for the mobile application on the mobile device for data requests where responses are available in the local cache. A proxy server is coupled to the mobile device and an application server to which the data request is made. The proxy server is able to communicate with the local proxy. The local proxy forwards the data request to the proxy server for transmission to the application server for a response to the data request. The proxy server queries the application server for any changes to the data request that the mobile application has previously made and notifies the local proxy of such changes.
Abstract: A mobile device which improves network resource utilization in a wireless network includes a first power management mode that is entered in response to instructions to enter the first power management mode that are provided at a user interface of the mobile device. The mobile device has a second power management mode that is entered based on a detected activity status that includes a time that a screen of the mobile device has been idle exceeding a time. Various optimization techniques are utilized while in either of the power management modes.
Abstract: A system with distributed proxy for reducing traffic in a wireless network satisfies data requests made by a mobile application. The system includes a mobile device having a local proxy for intercepting a data request made by the mobile application. The local proxy simulates application server responses for the mobile application on the mobile device for data requests where responses are available in the local cache. A proxy server is coupled to the mobile device and an application server to which the data request is made. The proxy server is able to communicate with the local proxy. The local proxy forwards the data request to the proxy server for transmission to the application server for a response to the data request. The proxy server queries the application server for any changes to the data request that the mobile application has previously made and notifies the local proxy of such changes.
Abstract: Systems and methods for optimization of mobile traffic directed to private networks and operator configurability thereof are disclosed. One embodiment includes a method, which may be implemented on a system, for identifying a network accessed by mobile traffic at a mobile device, identifying an operator of the network, and/or determining whether the mobile traffic is directed towards a private or public network. In response to determining that the mobile traffic is directed towards a private network, determining whether the private network is owned by or operated by the operator. Optimization of the mobile traffic is performed based on policies set by the operator. In general, the system maintains and/or enforces different sets of policies regarding mobile traffic optimization set by different and multiple operators.
Abstract: Detection of network transactions or keepalives for maintaining long lived connections are disclosed. A keepalive detector can detect keepalive traffic based on keepalive parameters determined from an analysis of socket level network communication log data that record data transfer events including data sent from mobile applications or clients on a mobile device and data received by the mobile applications or clients on the mobile device, timing characteristics, protocol types, etc. Various statistical analyses can be performed on the network communication data to detect keepalives, taking into account variability in intervals of the data transfer events and sizes of data sent and received on each event. The keepalive detector can also detect keepalives from stream data on a mobile device by analyzing socket level communication messages including timing characteristics and amount of data transferred to detect keepalives and report keepalives using a data structure.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 27, 2017
Date of Patent:
November 27, 2018
Assignee:
Seven Networks, LLC
Inventors:
Ari Backholm, Michael Fleming, Andrii Kokhanovskyi, Sungwook Yoon
Abstract: A communication network encrypts a first portion of a transaction associated with point-to-point communications using a point-to-point encryption key. A second portion of the transaction associated with end-to-end communications is encrypted using an end-to-end encryption key.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 30, 2017
Date of Patent:
November 20, 2018
Assignee:
Seven Networks, LLC
Inventors:
Lee R. Boynton, Trevor A. Fiatal, Scott M. Burke, Mark Sikes
Abstract: A method of buffering application data operable at a delivery control server is provided. Related systems and computer program products are also provided.
Abstract: A method for providing fault tolerance in mobile traffic management services is provided. The method includes detecting, at a mobile device, that one component of multiple components for providing mobile traffic management services is non-operational, at capacity, or near capacity, identifying the mobile device serviced by the one component, retrieving information for the mobile device serviced by the one component, from a repository coupled to the one component and the multiple components, re-assigning the mobile device originally serviced by the one component to another one of the multiple components for servicing, and communicating with the another one of the multiple components for servicing communication requests of the mobile device.
Abstract: A mobile device for accessing content stored on a remote server over a mobile network includes a processor configured to direct the mobile device to send a request directing a management server to initiate a transaction.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 28, 2016
Date of Patent:
October 23, 2018
Assignee:
Seven Networks, LLC
Inventors:
Trevor A. Fiatal, Lee R. Boynton, Scott M Burke, Brian D. Gustafson, Binu Raj, William Alvarado, Juan Benitez, Fred J. Duncan
Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for enhanced domain name system (DNS) caching are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method for enhanced DNS caching includes, at a mobile device for operating in a wireless network, providing, within the mobile device, a local DNS cache that stores DNS-related queries and their respective responses received from a DNS server for responding to DNS-related queries issued from applications hosted within the mobile device, where each response received from the DNS server is associated with a first time-to-live (TTL) value for that response, and assigning to each query/response pair in the local DNS cache a second TTL value that is larger than that response's first TTL value, where the second TTL value is used in place of the first TTL value.
Abstract: A method of optimizing traffic on a mobile device includes determining that an application is inactive based on historical behavior of the application and blocking traffic originating from or directed towards the application that is determined to be inactive based on historical behavior. A related mobile device is also provided.
Abstract: A method and system are for generating a report for delivery to or access or query by a network operator by determining, by a server-side proxy, optimization efficiency for traffic in a wireless network, tracking, by the server-side proxy, user-related information in the wireless network, generating, based on at least one of the optimization efficiency and the user-related information, a report for delivery to or access by an operator of the wireless network, the report including an alert of viral take-up of a new application, and performing, by the server-side proxy, traffic optimization functions alleviating traffic in the wireless network.
Abstract: Systems and methods for prediction of activity session for mobile network use optimization and user experience enhancement are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system for enhancing user experience with a mobile application on a mobile device including, using user activity characteristics at a mobile device and server activity characteristics of a host server to anticipate a future activity session at the mobile device and transferring impending content from the host server the mobile device to pre-cache content on the mobile device to support predicted data activity for the future activity session that has been predicted.
Abstract: Systems and methods for authenticating access to multiple data stores substantially in real-time are disclosed. The system may include a server coupled to a network, a client device in communication with the server via the network and a plurality of data stores. The server may authenticate access to the data stores and forward information from those stores to the client device. An exemplary authentication method may include receipt of a request for access to data. Information concerning access to that data is stored and associated with an identifier assigned to a client device. If the identifier is found to correspond to the stored information during a future request for access to the store, access to that store is granted.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 10, 2018
Date of Patent:
October 2, 2018
Assignee:
Seven Networks, LLC
Inventors:
Jay Sutaria, Brian Daniel Gustafson, Robert Paul van Gent, Ruth Lin, David Merriwether, Parvinder Sawhney, Ari Backholm
Abstract: An apparatus adapted to operate as an A party in a database synchronization with a B party via a mobile communication network. The database contains data items to be synchronized. The apparatus includes mechanisms for maintaining a copy of the database and a client-server communication module with a client part and a server part. The client part is configured to communicate via the mobile communication network with the server part of the B party. The apparatus also includes change detection mechanisms responsive to a detection of a changed data item, for initiating a synchronization event via the client part of the client-server communication module.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 30, 2016
Date of Patent:
October 2, 2018
Assignee:
Seven Networks, LLC
Inventors:
Ari Backholm, Seppo Salorinne, Heikki Ylinen, Marcus Groeber, Lauri Vuornos, Rauli Ikonen, Jukka Ahonen, Andrew Everitt, Allan McLeod, Petri Salmi
Abstract: A mobile device for accessing content stored on a remote server over a mobile network includes a processor configured to direct the mobile device to send a request directing a management server to initiate a transaction.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 19, 2016
Date of Patent:
September 25, 2018
Assignee:
Seven Networks, LLC
Inventors:
Trevor A. Fiatal, Lee R. Boynton, Scott M Burke, Brian D. Gustafson, Binu Raj, William Alvarado, Juan Benitez, Fred J. Duncan
Abstract: A method for conserving network and battery usage is provided. The method includes determining that a device is communicating over at least two overlapping push channels and blocking one of the push channels to eliminate or reduce overlap between the at least two overlapping push channels. Related systems are also provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 22, 2017
Date of Patent:
August 28, 2018
Assignee:
Seven Networks, LLC
Inventors:
Rami Alisawi, Ari Backholm, Huajie Hu, Alexandr Seleznyov, Jie Wei, Sungwook Yoon
Abstract: A mobile device which improves network resource utilization in a wireless network includes a first power management mode that is entered in response to instructions to enter the first power management mode that are provided at a user interface of the mobile device. The mobile device has a second power management mode that is entered based on a detected activity status that includes a time that a screen of the mobile device has been idle exceeding a time. Various optimization techniques are utilized while in either of the power management modes.
Abstract: A method for IP [=Internet Protocol] communication between a mobile terminal and its correspondent node in a mobile radio network. The method comprises establishing an IP connection between the mobile terminal and its correspondent node. After detecting a period of inactivity in the IP connection, keep-alive messages are sent via the IP connection at predetermined intervals, which are varied. The method comprises monitoring the lengths of several periods of inactivity at which the mobile radio network disconnects the IP connection.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 30, 2018
Date of Patent:
August 7, 2018
Assignee:
Seven Networks, LLC
Inventors:
Ari Backholm, Mikko Tervahauta, Seppo Salorinne, Jukka Ahonen, Mikko Daavittila, Andrew Everitt, Lauri Vuornos