KR20070075782A - Method for establishment of timer on/of cycle in mobile phone - Google Patents

Abstract

A timer update time setup method in a mobile communication terminal is provided to reduce the number of times that the terminal is awaken from a sleep mode in a section where operation of the terminal does not occur, according to an external call and internal user patterns, thereby reducing current consumption. An MPU(Micro Processor Unit) sets a particular time slot and the reference number of times(301). The MPU confirms whether the current time is the set time slot(303). If an external event occurs in a time slot having the small number of designated times(304), an updating process is collectively performed(314). If frequency of use at the current time slot is larger than the reference number of times, the MPU maintains a previous state without updating a timer(305,311).

Description

Method for setting timer update time in mobile communication terminal {Method For Establishment of Timer On / Of Cycle in Mobile Phone}

1 is an internal configuration diagram of a mobile communication terminal referred to in the description of an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a flow chart of a user's usage pattern of a mobile communication terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart for updating a timer when there is an external event and a result from the result of the survey of FIG. 2 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

       The present invention relates to a timer time adjusting method in a mobile communication terminal, in particular

 The present invention relates to a method of reducing current consumption by adjusting a timer update time according to a usage pattern of a mobile communication terminal.

In general, portable terminals such as mobile communication terminals and PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) employ various power saving techniques to maximize battery power usage time by minimizing battery current consumption to save battery power. As an example, in the case of domestic application 10-2005-0028003, there is a method of reducing the battery consumption by turning off the display device when the frequency of use is less than the reference frequency in the time zone to which the user belongs each time the user operates the mobile terminal. . Another example is the Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2004-0059335, there is a method to reduce the battery consumption by constantly forcing to sleep when you do not want to receive.

However, the mobile communication terminal is constantly updated regardless of the type of timer, especially the type of timer (protocol timer, UI timer, application timer .....), so the current consumption generated here is large. This is because the current consumption increases when the mobile communication terminal wakes up frequently in the sleep state.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for reducing the current consumption by reducing the frequency of waking in the sleep by setting the timer update time from the frequency of use of the mobile communication terminal.

         In order to accomplish the above object, the present invention provides a process for investigating a usage pattern from an internal event of a user's mobile communication terminal for each time zone, and a time zone having a high frequency based on the survey result of the process. Off time), delaying the timer update time if the frequency is low from the survey result, and calling the external event in the time interval with the low frequency This process consists of updating the timer update again.

       Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description, specific details such as specific components are shown, which are provided to help a more general understanding of the present invention, and it is understood that these specific details may be modified or changed within the scope of the present invention. It will be obvious to those of ordinary skill in the field. Hereinafter, the same reference numerals in the accompanying drawings reveal that they have similar or identical functions. In particular, parts not related to the present invention in the drawings will not be described in detail.

1 is an internal configuration diagram of a mobile communication terminal referred to in the description of an embodiment of the present invention.

An example of applying the present invention to a conventional mobile communication terminal is shown. The micro-processor unit (MPU) 100 processes various functions of a mobile communication terminal such as a telephone call, data communication, and a wireless Internet connection, and also performs mobile communication for each time zone according to an embodiment of the present invention as described below. A terminal usage pattern is examined, a section setting for adjusting a timer update is performed based on the survey result, and a control is made to adjust a timer update in a specific section. The memory 102 stores a program for processing and controlling the MPU 100 and data for examining a user pattern and other various data, and for storing user pattern data irradiated by an interrupt or polling on the MPU 100. Provide working memory. The memory 102 stores the frequency of use of the mobile communication terminal for each time zone according to the embodiment of the present invention by the MPU 100.

The key input unit 104 includes various keys and provides the MPU 100 with key input data corresponding to a key pressed by the user. The display device 106 displays the received or stored image or the image representing various operation information provided from the MPU 100 on the screen under the control of the MPU 100. A coder-decoder (CODEC) 108 connected to the MPU 100 and a microphone 110 and a speaker 112 connected to the codec 108 are used for telephone calls and voice recording.

The RF module 114 transmits and receives a radio signal with a mobile communication base station. The RF module 114 modulates a signal to be transmitted from the MPU 100 through the baseband processor 116 and transmits the signal to the base station through the RF signal. In addition, the RF signal received from the base station is demodulated and provided to the MPU 100 through the baseband processor 116. The baseband processor 116 processes the baseband signal between the RF module 114 and the MPU 100.

Referring to FIG. 2, which shows a flowchart of a terminal usage pattern management process according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the MPU 100 determines whether an event by a user operation of a preset type is generated by polling and interrupting at step 201. Detect. If it is detected in step 201, the MPU 100 executes step 203. In step (203), if the MPU 100 searches for the current time, that is, whether there is an event by a preset user operation, in step 205, the number of times according to the occurrence of the event of the mobile communication terminal in the time zone to which each time belongs. That is, the frequency of use is increased and stored in the memory 102. At that time, the frequency of use for each time zone is updated and stored.

The event by the user manipulation of the preset form refers to a form generated by the user when the user uses the mobile communication terminal. This type includes key input, cover opening and closing, attaching and detaching earphones, and attaching and detaching a charger. Dog of the cover mentioned above. Lung can be either flip, folder or slide depending on the type of mobile communication terminal.

On the other hand, since incoming or outgoing calls are not made by the user's attempt, events generated by the user's operation of the mobile terminal in response to incoming or outgoing messages should be included in the frequency of use of the mobile terminal. It is not set by an event of. The MPU 100 detects such an occurrence of an event that should be included in the terminal usage frequency in software by an interrupt method or a polling method in step 201.

When the mobile communication terminal is operated by the user in a predetermined form as described above, an example of the frequency of use of the mobile communication terminal for each time zone updated by the MPU 100 is shown in Table 1 below. The MPU 100 accumulates the terminal usage frequency for each time zone as shown in Table 1 below in a predetermined period, for example, in a week or month. Accordingly, the usage pattern of the mobile communication terminal for each time zone of the user is managed.

As described above, when the MPU 100 controls the update of the timer according to the embodiment of the present invention in a state in which a usage pattern of the user's mobile communication terminal is managed for each time zone, the MPU 100 may determine (301). In the step, as the initial setting value, the user sets a specific time period and reference frequency at which the user does not operate the mobile communication terminal. In step 303, the current time is set to check whether the time zone. If there is no text or a call to the external event x in the corresponding time zone, it is checked whether the terminal use frequency of the current time zone is less than the reference frequency in step 305.

The reference frequency in step 301 is a value for maintaining the timer without updating the timer in a time zone where the user does not use or uses the mobile communication terminal at all. Referring to Table 1, it can be seen that the frequency of the mobile communication terminal is not used or used at all from 01 o'clock to 06 o'clock, compared to other time zones. Accordingly, when the usage pattern of the user's mobile communication terminal is shown in Table 1, the reference frequency may be set to five times, for example.

Then, as shown in Table 1, since the frequency of use (5) of the mobile communication terminal in the current time zone is less than the reference frequency (4) in the time zone from 02 to 06 o'clock, the timer delays updating in step (307). To reduce power consumption. That is, since the operation of the mobile communication terminal by the user hardly occurs at this time, it is not necessary to update the timer at the actually set time, so that a method of delaying the timer update may be applied. In addition to time-sensitive timers such as protocol timers, UI timers (e.g., time updates in 1 minute increments, battery icons, etc.) will sleep by delaying the update for the section where user's mobile terminal operation does not occur. It can reduce the frequency of waking, which eliminates power consumption. As shown in Table 1 above, the UI timer update that occurs between 2 am and 5 am can be applied collectively at 5 pm. If an external event (a problem message or a phone call) occurs in step 304 in a time zone having a low frequency specified in step 303, the update may be performed collectively in step 304.

On the contrary, if the frequency of use of the mobile communication terminal in the current time zone is greater than the reference frequency, the process proceeds from step 305 to step 311. In step 311, the MPU 100 maintains the previous state without updating the timer.

Meanwhile, in the above description of the present invention, specific embodiments have been described, but various modifications may be made within the scope of the present invention. In particular, in the embodiment of the present invention has been described an example of applying the present invention to a mobile communication terminal, it is similarly applied in other fields than the portable terminal that requires power saving. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited by the described embodiments, but should be defined by the equivalents of the claims and claims.

As described above, the present invention can identify the user pattern of the mobile communication terminal and reduce the current consumption by reducing the frequency of waking from sleep in the time when the operation is rarely generated by the user. By updating every time, the effect of the pattern is maintained.

Claims (5)

In the timer time setting method of the mobile communication terminal, The time period during which the frequency of use of the mobile communication terminal is frequently used is maintained as it is; Timer update time setting method for a mobile communication terminal, characterized in that for adjusting the delay to update the timer to reduce power consumption when the frequency of use of the process is small. The method of claim 1, wherein the timer update delay causes the frequency at which the timer wakes up from the sleep to be reduced. In the timer update time setting method of the mobile communication terminal, Investigating the usage pattern from the internal events of the user's mobile terminal by time zone, The time period with a high frequency based on the survey result of the above process is to maintain the timer update as it is, The timer update time setting method of the mobile communication terminal, characterized in that it comprises a step of delaying the timer update time when the frequency is less time from the survey result of the process. The method of claim 3, And updating a batch when there is a call from an external event in a time zone with a low frequency. The method of claim 4, wherein External event is a method of setting a timer update time in a mobile communication terminal, characterized in that the call by an external call (text reception, telephone call ...).

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