private final ScheduledExecutorService downloadScheduler = Executors.newSingleThreadScheduledExecutor(1);

final Runnable scoreHttpRunnable = new Runnable() {
    @Override public void run() {
...
//do Http Syncronously here- I guess whatever is in the doInBackground(...) part of that Async task you wrote!
...
final int newScoreResult = ... (do whatever you do here)
...
runOnUiThread(new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { yourView.updateHoweverYouLike(newScoreResult); } })
...
};
downloadScheduler.scheduleAtFixedRate(scoreHttpRunnable, 0, 4, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

AsyncTasks should ideally be used for short operations (a few seconds at the most.)

@Override
protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
    Log.d(TAG, "type - " + params[0] + ", url = " + params[1] + ", name = " +   params[2]);


    downloadFile(params[1], params[2]);


    return null;
}

URL url = new URI(Url.replace(" ", "%20")).toURL();
        URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
        connection.setConnectTimeout(1000);
        int fileLength = connection.getContentLength();

        mSavePath = CommonUtilities.getFileSavePath(mContext, fileName, fileLength);
        Log.d(TAG, "*** saveFilePath - " + mSavePath);

        InputStream inputStream = connection.getInputStream();
        if (inputStream != null) {
            File file = new File(mSavePath);

            BufferedOutputStream bufferOutputStream = new   BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(file));
            byte byteArray[] = new byte[1024];
            int len = 0;
            long total = 0;

            while ((len = inputStream.read(byteArray)) != -1) {
                bufferOutputStream.write(byteArray, 0, len);
                total += len;
            }

            bufferOutputStream.flush();
            bufferOutputStream.close();
            inputStream.close();
        } else {
            Log.d(TAG, "*** inputStream is null");

        }