Method and apparatus for managing data using plural processors

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10079788-B2
Application number	US-201615008825-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 28, 2016
Priority date	Jan 28, 2015
Publication date	Sep 18, 2018
Grant date	Sep 18, 2018

Abstract

A method for managing data in an electronic device including a first processor and a second processor, the method comprising: receiving data transmitted by a first external device by using the first processor; identifying, by the first processor, a service or content corresponding to the data; in response to detecting that the data corresponds to a first service or a first content, using the first processor to transmit at least a portion of the data to the second processor; and in response to detecting that the data corresponds to a second service or a second content, using the first processor to transmit at least a portion of the data to a second external device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for managing data in an electronic device including a first processor and a second processor, the method comprising:
receiving, by the first processor, a message transmitted by a first external device;
identifying, by the first processor, a service or an application corresponding to the message based on information of the message; and
determining, by the first processor, whether to activate the second processor to process the message or to provide at least a portion of the message to a second external device which is operatively coupled with the electronic device, according to the identified service or application corresponding to the message.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the message is received from the first external device while the second processor is in a sleep state.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the second processor keeps in a sleep state while the electronic device transmits the at least portion of the message to the second external device using the first processor.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising,
storing, by the first processor, the message in a memory that is accessible by the second processor.

5. The method of claim 4 , further comprising retrieving, by the second processor, the message from the memory when the second processor has been activated based on the determination.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first processor comprises at least one communication processor and the second processor comprises at least one application processor, the at least one communication processor is configured to communicate with a cellular communicating base station and an external device in short range.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the providing of the at least portion of the message to the second external device comprises transmitting the at least portion of the message to the second external device through short range communication channel using the first processor.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein preset user setting determines whether to activate the second processor to process the message of the application or to provide at least a portion of the message to the second external device.

9. An electronic device comprising:
a memory;
a first processor operatively coupled to the memory; and
a second processor operatively coupled to the memory,
wherein the first processor is configured to:
receive a message transmitted by a first external device,
identify a service or an application corresponding to the message based on information of the message, and
determining, by the first processor, whether to activate the second processor to process the message or to provide at least a portion of the message to a second external device which is operatively coupled with the electronic device, according to the identified service or application corresponding to the message.

10. The electronic device of claim 9 , wherein the message is received from the first external device while the second processor is in a sleep state.

11. The electronic device of claim 10 , wherein the second processor keeps in a sleep state while the electronic device transmits the at least portion of the message to the second external device using the first processor.

12. The electronic device of claim 9 , wherein the first processor stores the message in the memory.

13. The electronic device of claim 12 , wherein the second processor retrieves the message from the memory when the second processor has been activated based on the determination.

14. The electronic device of claim 9 , wherein the first processor comprises at least one communication processor and the second processor comprises at least one application processor, the at least one communication processor is configured to communicate with a cellular communicating base station and an external device in short range.

15. The electronic device of claim 14 , wherein the first processor transmits the at least portion of the message to the second external device through short range communication channel using the first processor.

16. The electronic device of claim 9 , wherein preset user setting determines whether to activate the second processor to process the message of the application or to provide at least a portion of the message to the second external device.

17. The electronic device of claim 9 , further comprising a low-power processor configured to provide the at least a portion of the message to the second processor or the second external device, based on the service or the application.

18. The electronic device of claim 9 , wherein, when the message corresponds to a first service, the first processor is configured to control the second processor to transit a state of the second processor from a sleep state to an active state, in response to the first service having a predetermined priority level.

19. The electronic device of claim 18 , wherein the first processor is configured to determine the priority level based on a user setting, a state of a user, a state of the electronic device, a property of the message, or an application generating or using the message.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing one or more processor executable instructions, which when executed by a first processor of an electronic device cause the first processor to perform a method comprising:
receiving, by the first processor, a message transmitted by a first external device;
identifying, by the first processor, a service or an application corresponding to the message based on information of the message; and
determining, by the first processor, whether to activate a second processor of the electronic device to process the message or to provide at least a portion of the message to a second external device which is operatively coupled with the electronic device, according to the identified service or application corresponding to the message.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Park Su-Young
• Yoon Su-Ha
• Jung Eui-Chang
• Chun Jae-Woong

Classifications

• H04L51/046 Primary

  Interoperability with other network applications or services · CPC title

• G06F1/3287

  by switching off individual functional units in the computer system · CPC title

• H04M1/7253

  Electricity · mapped topic

• Y02D10/171

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• G06F1/3209 Primary

  Monitoring remote activity, e.g. over telephone lines or network connections · CPC title