Method for mitigating temperature of electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11615009-B2
Application number	US-202017039771-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 30, 2020
Priority date	Oct 1, 2019
Publication date	Mar 28, 2023
Grant date	Mar 28, 2023

Abstract

Embodiments herein disclose a method for mitigating a temperature of an electronic device. The method includes determining, by the electronic device, the temperature of the electronic device, while a plurality of applications are executed on the electronic device, wherein each of the applications from the plurality of applications is associated with a first RAT. Further, the method includes detecting, by the electronic device, that the temperature of the electronic device meets thermal mitigation criteria. Further, the method includes mitigating, by the electronic device, the temperature of the electronic device by switching the application from the plurality of applications from the first RAT to a second RAT in response to detecting that the temperature of the electronic device meets the thermal mitigation criteria.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for mitigating a temperature of an electronic device, comprising:
determining, by the electronic device, the temperature of the electronic device, during execution of a plurality of applications on the electronic device, wherein each of the applications from the plurality of applications is associated with a first radio access technology (RAT);
detecting, by the electronic device, that the temperature of the electronic device meets thermal mitigation criteria; and
switching, at least one application from the plurality of applications from the first RAT to a second RAT in response to detecting that the temperature of the electronic device meets the thermal mitigation criteria wherein the at least one application is selected by: determining a plurality of parameters associated with each of the applications from the plurality of applications, wherein at least one parameter from the plurality of parameters contributes to raise the temperature of the electronic device; determining a temperature contribution level of each of the applications for raising the temperature of the electronic device by applying a machine learning model on the plurality of parameters associated with each of the applications; predicting whether the temperature level of an application will contribute towards thermal overheating in response to being used for a certain duration by applying the machine learning model on the plurality of parameters associated with each of the applications; and selecting the at least one application based on the temperature level exceeding a temperature threshold.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein switching, by the electronic device, the at least one application from the plurality of applications to the second RAT from the first RAT comprises:
sending, by the electronic device, a data connection request corresponding to the at least one application to a network entity associated with the second RAT;
receiving, by the electronic device, a data connection response corresponding to the at least one application from the network entity associated with the second RAT based on the data connection request; and
switching, by the electronic device, the at least one application to the second RAT from the first RAT by establishing a connection with the second RAT.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein switching, by the electronic device, the at least one application from the plurality of applications to the second RAT from the first RAT comprises:
sending, by the electronic device, a non-access stratum message corresponding to the at least one application to a network entity associated with the second RAT, in response to the electronic device searching the network entity associated with the second RAT;
receiving, by the electronic device, a non-access stratum message response corresponding to the at least one application from the network entity associated with the second RAT based on the sent non-access stratum message; and
switching, by the electronic device, a data connection of the at least one application to the second RAT from the first RAT based on the non-access stratum message response.

4. An electronic device for mitigating a temperature of the electronic device, comprising:
a memory; and
a processor, coupled with the memory, wherein the processor is configured to:
determine the temperature of the electronic device, during execution of a plurality of applications on the electronic device, wherein each of the applications from the plurality of applications is associated with a first radio access technology (RAT),
detect that the temperature of the electronic device meets thermal mitigation criteria, and
switch at least one application from the plurality of applications from the first RAT to a second RAT in response to detecting that the temperature of the electronic device meets the thermal mitigation criteria wherein the at least one application is selected by: determining a plurality of parameters associated with each of the applications from the plurality of applications, wherein at least one parameter from the plurality of parameters contributes to raise the temperature of the electronic device; determining a temperature contribution level of each of the applications for raising the temperature of the electronic device by applying a machine learning model on the plurality of parameters associated with each of the applications; predicting whether the temperature level of an application will contribute towards thermal overheating in response to being used for a certain duration by applying the machine learning model on the plurality of parameters associated with each of the applications; and selecting the at least one application based on the temperature level exceeding a temperature threshold.

5. The electronic device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the processor is further configured to control a throughput of the electronic device by throttling a speed of the at least one application which is having at least one of a high throughput and responsible for temperature increase of the electronic device in response to mitigate the temperature of the electronic device.

6. The electronic device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the first RAT is a New Radio (NR) RAT, the second RAT is a Long Term Evaluation (LTE) RAT, and the electronic device is operating in a dual registration mode.

7. The electronic device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein to switch the at least one application from the plurality of applications to the second RAT from the first RAT, the processor s further configured to:
send a data connection request corresponding to the at least one application to a network entity associated with the second RAT;
receive a data connection response corresponding to the at least one application from the network entity associated with the second RAT based on the data connection request; and
switch the at least one application to the second RAT from the first RAT by establishing a connection with the second RAT.

8. The electronic device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein to switch the at least one application from the plurality of applications to the second RAT from the first RAT, the processor is further configured to:
send a non-access stratum message request corresponding to the at least one application to a network entity associated with the second RAT, in response to the electronic device searching the network entity associated with the second RAT;
receive a non-access stratum message response corresponding to the at least one application from the network entity associated with the second RAT based on the non-access stratum message; and
switch a data connection of the at least one application to the second RAT from the first RAT based on the non-access stratum message response.

9. The electronic device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the at least one parameter is a rate-controlled socket parameter, an incoming buffer information, a numbers of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection, a maximum number of concurrent connections to a server, an application throughput information, an application device heating capacity information, a radio frequency (RF) utilization information, an application priority information, an quality of service information, a TCP level scheduling information, or a processor usage associated with the at least one application.

10. The electronic device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
detect that the temperature of the electronic device is within the thermal mitigation criteria; and
switch the at least one application from the plurality of applications to the first RAT from the second RAT in response

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• JHA Kailash Kumar
• Shah Nitesh Pushpak
• Nishant
• Jangid Alok Kumar
• Tiwari Avneesh
• Gupta Ravi
• N Srinidhi

Classifications

• G06N3/0464

  Convolutional networks [CNN, ConvNet] · CPC title

• G06N3/092

  Reinforcement learning · CPC title

• G06N3/09

  Supervised learning · CPC title

• G06N3/0895

  Weakly supervised learning, e.g. semi-supervised or self-supervised learning · CPC title

• G06N3/04

  Architecture, e.g. interconnection topology · CPC title