BACKGROUND TASK EXECUTION OVER A NETWORK BASED ON NETWORK ACTIVITY IDLE TIME

Patent №

US 8,028,060

Granted

2011-09-27

Filed 2007

Owner

APPLE COMPUTER, INC.

Lab

AI components

2

planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11620613

Network activity of a client device that is coupled to a data network is monitored, to detect network activity idle time. Based upon detecting the idle time, an application running in the client device is automatically signaled that its background task be executed over the data network. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

PlanningAI hardwareH04L 43/0805G06F 9/4843

AI classification

Planning0.87
AI hardware0.69
Knowledge representation0.06
Natural language0.05
Vision0.00
Machine learning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

APPLE COMPUTER, INC.

assignment · 187190368

Assignors

WYLD, JEREMY, GANATRA, NITIN, WILLIAMSON, RICHARD JOHN

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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