Patent ID: 8255466
Filing Date: 2012-08-28
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of selectively establishing network connectivity, the method comprising: monitoring, on a client, communications activity incident to accessing a network, the communications activity including a request to access the network; identifying, on the client, an application associated with the communications activity; determining, on the client, that the communications activity for the application was initiated in response to user interaction with the client and is separate and distinct from an ambient background process; accessing, on the client, a communications configuration associated with the application, the communications configuration indicating how the application is configured to access the network by performing operations that include: selectively establishing, on the client, network connectivity based on the determination that the communications activity for the application was initiated in response to user interaction with the client and is not an ambient background process that generates a communications requirement in response to something other than user interaction; and enabling, on the client, the application to access the network to support the communications activity.