Alcatel Lucent Assigned Patent

Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne Billancourt, France, has been assigned a patent (10,070,290) developed by Kawsar, Fahim, and Acer, Utku Gunay, Antwerp, Belgium, for a “system and method for scheduling background synchronization of application data.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system, (1) for scheduling background synchronization of application data, (2) between a mobile communication device, (3) and a cloud storage, (4), comprising: –a collecting unit, (100) estimating the size of application data, (2), –a prediction unit, (101) adapted to predict future locations, (300) of the mobile communication device, (3) at future times, (301), –a cost module, (102) adapted to calculate a cost of transfer, (5) at future times, (301) and future locations, (300), and –a scheduler, (103) adapted to schedule the background synchronization at a future time, (311) based on cost of transfer, (511).”

The patent application was filed on May 19, 2015 (15/313,240).