Patent ID: 8479035

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, at a portable electronic device, a first signal that instructs the portable electronic device to enter a limited functionality mode, wherein, in the limited functionality mode, one or more transmission functionalities associated with the portable electronic device are disabled; and in response to receiving the first signal, identifying one or more tasks currently being transmitted or to be transmitted by the one or more transmission functionalities; identifying a subset of the one or more tasks to be completed based on one or more of: (i) an urgency associated with the limited functionality mode, (ii) one or more characteristics of each identified task currently being transmitted or to be transmitted by the one or more transmission functionalities, or (iii) transmission bandwidth associated with the one or more transmission functionalities; determining a time delay based on the determined subset of the one or more tasks; and entering the limited functionality mode after waiting until an earlier one of: (i) the subset of the one or more tasks that use the one or more transmission functionalities have been completed, or (ii) the time delay has expired.