Wake-Up Control Method and Apparatus, and Terminal Device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2018014252-A1
Application number	US-201715714838-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 25, 2017
Priority date	Jun 17, 2013
Publication date	Jan 11, 2018
Grant date	—

Abstract

A wake-up control method and apparatus, and a terminal device. The method includes determining, by a wake-up control apparatus, whether a network connection of a terminal device is in a connected state; and if the wake-up control apparatus determines that the network connection is not in the connected state, stopping, by the wake-up control apparatus, wake-up of the terminal device by N application wake-up timers, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1. The wake-up control apparatus shields some application wake-up timers, so that the shielded application wake-up timers do not wake up the terminal device, thereby reducing electricity consumption and power consumption of the terminal device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A wake-up control method, comprising:
turning off, by a wake-up control apparatus, a network connection of a terminal device; and stopping, by the wake-up control apparatus, wake-up of the terminal device by N application wake-up timers, wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein after stopping the wake-up of the terminal device by the N application wake-up timers, the method further comprises:
determining, by the wake-up control apparatus, whether the network connection is in a connected state; and resuming, by the wake-up control apparatus, the wake-up of the terminal device by the N application wake-up timers when the wake-up control apparatus determines that the network connection is in the connected state.

3 . The method according to claim 2 , wherein before resuming the wake-up of the terminal device by the N application wake-up timers, the method further comprises:
transferring, by the wake-up control apparatus, N pieces of application wake-up timer information from a suspension list to a wake-up list; and resuming, by the wake-up control apparatus, the wake-up of the terminal device by the application wake-up timers corresponding to the N pieces of the application wake-up timer information in the wake-up list.

4 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein before stopping the wake-up of the terminal device by the N application wake-up timers, the method further comprises:
transferring, by the wake-up control apparatus, N pieces of application wake-up timer information from a wake-up list to a suspension list, wherein the wake-up list comprises M wake-up lists, and wherein M is an integer greater than or equal to N; and stopping, by the wake-up control apparatus, the wake-up of the terminal device by the application wake-up timers corresponding to the N pieces of the application wake-up timer information in the suspension list.

5 . The method according to claim 4 , wherein transferring the N pieces of the application wake-up timer information from the wake-up list to the suspension list comprises:
transferring, by the wake-up control apparatus according to application identifier information in a preset blacklist, the application wake-up timer information that is in the wake-up list and that comprises the application identifier information in the preset blacklist to the suspension list, wherein the application wake-up timer information comprises identifier information of an application to which an application wake-up timer belongs; determining, by the wake-up control apparatus, whether a type of an application wake-up timer in the application wake-up timer information in the wake-up list is a type that can wake up the terminal device, wherein the application wake-up timer information indicates that the type of the application wake-up timer is the type that can wake up a terminal device or a type that is incapable of waking up a terminal device; and transferring, by the wake-up control apparatus, the application wake-up timer information that is in the wake-up list and that comprises the type that can wake up the terminal device to the suspension list when the wake-up control apparatus determines that the type of the application wake-up timer in the wake-up list is the type that can wake up the terminal device.

6 . The method according to claim 5 , wherein the wake-up control apparatus determines that the type of the application wake-up timer in the wake-up list is the type that can wake up the terminal device, and wherein the method further comprises:
determining, by the wake-up control apparatus, whether the type that can wake up the terminal device is a type that is useless to wake up a terminal device; and transferring, by the wake-up control apparatus, the application wake-up timer information that is in the wake-up list and that comprises the type that is useless to wake up the terminal device to the suspension list when the wake-up control apparatus determines that the type that can wake up the terminal device is the type that is useless to wake up the terminal device.

7 . The method according to claim 5 , wherein the wake-up control apparatus determines that the type of the application wake-up timer in the wake-up list is the type that can wake up the terminal device, and wherein the method further comprises:
determining, by the wake-up control apparatus, whether the type that can wake up the terminal device is a type of repeatedly waking up a terminal device; and transferring, by the wake-up control apparatus, the application wake-up timer information that is in the wake-up list and that comprises the type of repeatedly waking up the terminal device to the suspension list when the wake-up control apparatus determines that the type that can wake up the terminal device is the type of repeatedly waking up a terminal device.

8 . The method according to claim 7 , wherein determining whether the type that can wake up the terminal device is the type of repeatedly waking up the terminal device comprises:
determining, by the wake-up control apparatus, whether the application wake-up timer information comprises a wake-up period; and determining, by the wake-up control apparatus, that the type that can wake up the terminal device is the type of repeatedly waking up the terminal device when the wake-up control apparatus determines that the application wake-up timer information comprises the wake-up period.

9 . The method according to claim 7 , wherein before determining whether the type that can wake up the terminal device is the type of repeatedly waking up the terminal device, the method further comprises:
acquiring, by the wake-up control apparatus within a preset time, wake-up intervals at which one of the application wake-up timers of the type that can wake up a terminal device wakes up the terminal device K times, wherein K is an integer greater than or equal to 2; obtaining, by the wake-up control apparatus, an average wake-up interval according to K- 1 wake-up intervals; and obtaining, by the wake-up control apparatus, a mean square error of the wake-up intervals according to the K- 1 wake-up intervals and the average wake-up interval, and wherein determining whether the type that can wake up the terminal device is the type of repeatedly waking up a terminal device comprises:
determining, by the wake-up control apparatus, whether the mean square error is a value belonging to a preset range; and
determining, by the wake-up control apparatus, that the type that can wake up the terminal device is the type of repeatedly waking up the terminal device when the wake-up control apparatus determines that the mean square error is the value belonging to the preset range.

10 . A wake-up control apparatus, comprising:
a first processor configured to turn off a network connection; and a second processor configured to stop wake-up of a terminal device by N application wake-up timers when the network connection is not in a connected state, wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 1.

11 . The apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the second processor is further configured to:
determine whether the network connection is in the connected state after stopping the wake-up of the terminal device by the N application wake-up timers; and resume the wake-up of the terminal device by the N application wake-up timers when the network connection is in the connected state.

12 . The apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the second processor is further configured to:
transfer N pieces of application wake-up timer information from a suspension lis

Assignees

• Huawei Device Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wei Konggang
• Peng Yu
• Zhu Xiaolong

Classifications

• Y02B60/50

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• H04W76/04

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W52/0251 Primary

  using monitoring of local events, e.g. events related to user activity · CPC title

• Y02D30/70

  in wireless communication networks · CPC title

• H04W52/0264

  by selectively disabling software applications · CPC title