Wireless communication method and electronic device supporting same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11438790-B2
Application number	US-201917270720-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 23, 2019
Priority date	Aug 23, 2018
Publication date	Sep 6, 2022
Grant date	Sep 6, 2022

Abstract

According to an embodiment disclosed in the specification, an electronic device may include a display, a wireless communication circuit, a processor, and a memory storing a first application program having a first priority associated with use of a resource of the wireless communication circuit and a second application program having a second priority associated with the use of the resource. The memory may store instructions that cause the processor to execute the first application program, to execute the second application program, to compare the first priority with the second priority when the first application program is displayed on the display, and to cause the first application program to have a priority the same as the second application program or to have a priority higher than the second application program, based at least partly on the comparison.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electronic device comprising:
a display;
a wireless communication circuit;
a processor operatively connected to the display and the wireless communication circuit; and
a memory operatively connected to the processor and configured to store a first application program having a first priority associated with use of a resource of the wireless communication circuit and a second application program having a second priority associated with the use of the resource,
wherein the memory stores a list of applications with low latency attributes, and
wherein the memory further stores instructions that cause the processor to:
execute the first application program,
execute the second application program,
when the first application program is displayed on the display, determine whether the first application program has a low latency attribute using the list,
when the first application program is determined as having the low latency attribute, compare the first priority with the second priority, and
cause the first application program to have a priority the same as the second application program or to have a priority higher than the second application program, based on the comparison.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the first priority and the second priority have a same priority as each other.

3. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the instructions further cause the processor to:
assign a priority higher than the first priority to the first application program based at least partly on the comparison.

4. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the instructions further cause the processor to:
assign a priority lower than the second priority to the second application program based at least partly on the comparison.

5. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the instructions further cause the processor to:
store first packet identification information about the first application program and second packet identification information about the second application program, and
change a priority of the first application program and a priority of the second application program with reference to the first packet identification information and the second packet identification information.

6. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the instructions further cause the processor to:
change a priority of a user datagram protocol (UDP) packet generated by the first application program and the second application program.

7. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the instructions further cause the processor to:
change a priority of the first application program and a priority of the second application program based on execution state information of the electronic device.

8. The electronic device of claim 7 , wherein the execution state information includes at least one of information about an application running in the electronic device, storage information of the memory, or calculation processing information of the processor.

9. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the instructions further cause the processor to:
when the second application program is displayed on the display and the first application program is not displayed on the display, cause the second application program to have a priority higher than the first application program on the display.

10. The electronic device of claim 1 ,
wherein the display executes in a multi-window scheme in which both the first application and the second application operate in a foreground at a same time.

11. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the list comprises a change target of a priority for resource use of a wireless communication resource.

12. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the instructions further cause the processor to control the display to display a user interface for setting an application to be included in the list.

13. An electronic device comprising:
a display;
a wireless communication circuit;
a processor operatively connected to the display and the wireless communication circuit; and
a memory operatively connected to the processor and configured to store a first application program having a first priority associated with use of a resource of a wireless communication circuit,
wherein the memory stores instructions that cause the processor to:
execute the first application program,
when the first application program is displayed on the display, transmit identification information of the first application program to an external device through the wireless communication circuit, and receive a signal for determining whether the first application program has a low latency attribute, through the wireless communication circuit, wherein the signal includes information about a value of which the first priority is to be changed, and
increase a priority of the first application program to be higher than the first priority based at least partly on the signal.

14. The electronic device of claim 13 , wherein the instructions further cause the processor to:
determine whether identification information of the first application program is included in an application list stored in the memory.

15. The electronic device of claim 13 , wherein the instructions further cause the processor to:
when a screen associated with the first application program occupies the display by a specified range or more, determine the attribute.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Gu Jaheon
• Min Hyunkee
• Song Jaeho
• Choi Jongmu
• Lee Sunkey
• Kim Gwangmin
• Jeong Mincheol

Classifications

• H04W72/56

  based on priority criteria · CPC title

• H04W8/20

  Transfer of user or subscriber data · CPC title

• H04L67/61

  taking into account QoS or priority requirements · CPC title

• H04L61/5007

  Internet protocol [IP] addresses · CPC title

• H04L67/34

  involving the movement of software or configuration parameters  (network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416) · CPC title