Patent ID: 8326231

Claim:
A method of operating a mobile electronic device, comprising: connecting, by an electronic device, to a network; transmitting, by the electronic device, at least one communication to the network, identifying, by a processor of the electronic device, at least one communication parameter of the at least one communication; determining, by the processor of the electronic device, a first disconnect time as which to disconnect from the network based on the at least one communication parameter identified by the processor; disconnecting from the network at the first disconnect time; wherein: the at least one communication includes a first communication and a second communication; the identifying at least one communication parameter includes identifying; communication parameters of the first communication as: a time that the first communication was transmitted, and a destination of the first communication; communication parameters of the second communication as: a time that the second communication was transmitted, and the destination of the first communication; and the determining when to disconnect from the network is based on an amount of time between the time that the first communication was sent to the destination and the time that the second communication was sent to the destination.