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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2012
Sharad Agarwal, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher Riederer, New York, NY (US);
Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, Redmond, WA (US);
Jitendra Padhye, Redmond, WA (US);
Sharad Agarwal, Seattle, WA (US);
Christopher Riederer, New York, NY (US);
Lenin Ravindranath Sivalingam, Redmond, WA (US);
Jitendra Padhye, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for reducing network usage of a computing device are provided herein. The method includes receiving a network call relating to a network transfer from an application at an application programming interface of the computing device. The method also includes determining whether the network transfer is relevant to a current state of the application and procrastinating the network transfer if it is not relevant to the current state of the application.