Modifying system timers for optimizing mobile traffic management

Abstract

A mobile device for optimizing mobile traffic is provided. The device includes a radio. The mobile device is configured to modify system timers to increase tolerance to delay in establishing a connection to the wireless network, intercept requests to establish a connection to a wireless network, wherein the requests correspond to non-user interactive traffic, accumulate the requests that are intercepted over a period of time, and transfer the requests that are accumulated over the wireless network at the end of the period of time.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A mobile device for optimizing mobile traffic, comprising:
 a radio;   wherein the mobile device is configured to:
 modify system timers to increase tolerance to delay in establishing a connection to the wireless network; 
 intercept requests to establish a connection to a wireless network, wherein the requests correspond to non-user interactive traffic; 
 accumulate the requests that are intercepted over a period of time; and 
 transfer the requests that are accumulated over the wireless network at the end of the period of time. 
   
     
     
         2 . The mobile device of  claim 1 , wherein the tolerance to delay is increased by modifying one or more timeouts associated with establishing a socket connection. 
     
     
         3 . The mobile device of  claim 1 , wherein the delay tolerance is increased by modifying one or more timeouts associated with reading from an already established socket connection. 
     
     
         4 . The mobile device of  claim 1 , wherein the delay tolerance is increased by modifying timeouts specific to one or more protocols associated with the requests. 
     
     
         5 . The mobile device of  claim 1 , wherein the tolerance to delay that is increased prevents one or more applications that initiated the requests from timing out during the period of time the requests are accumulated. 
     
     
         6 . The mobile device of  claim 2 , wherein the period of time is a predefined duration determined based on the tolerance to delay that is increased. 
     
     
         7 . The mobile device of  claim 6 , wherein the transfer of the requests that are accumulated is triggered when a screen of the mobile device is turned on or when a user-interactive traffic is detected. 
     
     
         8 . The mobile device of  claim 1 , wherein the period of time is determined by a local proxy on the mobile device. 
     
     
         9 . The mobile device of  claim 1 , wherein the period of time is determined at run time based on a screen on/off policy, wherein the period of time is of shorter duration when a screen of the mobile device is on than when the screen of the mobile device is off. 
     
     
         10 . The mobile device of  claim 1 , wherein applications from where the non-user interactive traffic originates from are transparent to the tolerance to delay that is increased and accumulation of the requests over the period of time. 
     
     
         11 . A method for optimizing mobile traffic comprising:
 modifying system timers to increase tolerance to delay in establishing a connection to the wireless network;   intercepting requests to establish a connection to a wireless network, wherein the requests correspond to non-user interactive traffic;   accumulating the requests that are intercepted over a period of time; and   transferring the requests that are accumulated over the wireless network at the end of the period of time.