Background transfer service for applications on mobile devices

US11006369B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

• Marc McClure · Seattle, US
• Abolade Gbadegesin · Sammamish, US
• Chittur Padmanabhan Subbaraman · Carnation, US
• Jianping Yin · Sammamish, US
• Jorge I. Raastroem · Issaquah, US
• Yasser Shaaban · Seattle, US
• Timothy Noonan · Cary, US
• Rachel Jiang · Redmond, US
• Peter J. Torr · Kirkland, US
• Vishal V. Ghotge · Bellevue, US
• Gregory Arthur de Souza · Seattle, US
• Pavan Rajamohan Hullumane · Seattle, US
• Adrian Dragomir · Bellevue, US
• Darin Miller · Sammamish, US
• Megan Donahue · Seattle, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 20, 2020
• Grant date: May 11, 2021
• Expiry date: Jan 20, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02D30/70
• WIPO field: Audio-visual technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The subject disclosure is directed towards a background transfer service that provides platform-level support for third party applications to queue data transfers to run in the background, including when the application is not running in the foreground. Applications may thus perform downloading and uploading tasks in the background; however the background transfer service manages the data transfer requests so as to limit each background application's ability to interfere with foreground application operations, that is, by controlling resource usage according to one or more policies.