Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Albert Liu

Anh Phuong Tran

Lloyd Alfred Moore

Adam Sapek

Poonam Ganesh Hattangady

Gary Jason Waliczek

Christopher Todd Guillory

John Mark Miller

Hugh A Teegan

Upender Sandadi

Kevin Daniel Resnick

Keith C Bentley

Sureshkumar Natarajan

Mark Sievert Larsen

Susan Annette Loh

M Omar Maabreh

Jane Van-nha Ly

Kishore Kumar Prakash

Ahn P Tran

Hugh Teegan

Anh P Tran

Combining network connection maintenance operations that use a resource to extend battery life. Each of the network connections has a timer and a defined tolerance for early connection maintenance. After receiving notification of an event, the network connections are accessed to identify the connections for which a maintenance operation may be performed early based on the timer and the tolerance. In an embodiment, the maintenance operation includes sending a transmission control protocol (TCP) keep-alive packet on the connection.

Aggregating connection maintenance to optimize resource consumption

Coalescing schedules that use a resource to extend battery life. Each of the schedules is defined to execute at a recurrent activation time within a defined tolerance. After receiving notification of an event, the schedules are accessed to identify the schedules that may be executed early based on their activation time and tolerance. The identified schedules are aggregated for execution.

Aggregating recurrent schedules to optimize resource consumption

Managing recurrent schedules based on events and conditions. Schedules from a plurality of applications are identified based on an activation time for the schedules and a determination of whether or not conditions defined for the schedules are met. The identified schedules are activated by performing actions associated with each of the identified schedules. In an embodiment, the schedules are grouped based on functionality and prioritized to avoid conflicts within each group.

Managing event-based conditional recurrent schedules

Coordinating delivery of data to a first computing device from a plurality of second computing devices based on known power times for a resource associated with the first computing device. One of the second computing devices requests a time interval for data delivery. The first computing device compares the requested time interval to the known power times to determine a delivery time. For example, the requested time interval is compared against activation times for recurrent schedules that use the resource, and against previously determined delivery times. The second computing device delivers data at the determined delivery time to preserve the resource. In some embodiments, the delivery time is adjusted for processing delays and network latency.

Coordinating data delivery using time suggestions

Mobile devices are provisioned automatically with VPN (Virtual Private Network) information so that users can automatically connect to their corporate networks using their devices. The OMA SyncML standard is extended to define VPN connections and provision them onto the devices automatically either over-the-air or by an IT application provided by the corporation.

SyncML based OMA connectivity object to provision VPN connections

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