Push notification aggregation

• US 10,462,122 B2
• Filed: 08/29/2016
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pivotal Software, Inc. (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Pivotal Software, Inc. (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: Sojoodi, Sina, Winters, Joshua Paul Balla, D'Cunha, Mark Anthony, Khalili, Tanzeeb Rahman, Forde, Dwayne Elsworth, Smith, Matthew Leonard Robert, Szumlakowski, Robert, Riemer, Ernst Siegfried Norman
• Primary Examiner(s): Dalencourt, Yves
• Application Number:
  US15/250,864
• Publication Number:
  US 20170064025A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,156 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/04 for providing a confidential data exchange among entities communicating through data packet networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0823 using certificates cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving certificates H04L9/3263
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds

Abstract

A mobile computing device is operated to receive a trigger at a first instance. The trigger may be associated with a predefined condition or event or action. The mobile computing device may detect the predefined condition or event at a second instance. In response to detecting the predefined condition or event, a notification is activated on the mobile computing device that is based on the trigger.

Claims

1. A method for delivering content to a mobile computing device, the method being implemented by one or more processors and comprising:

identifying a content data set for transmission to the mobile computing device;

segmenting the content data set into multiple content segments;

generating a push notification set by generating a push notification for each content segment of the multiple content segments, each push notification of the push notification set including a payload with a corresponding content segment of the multiple content segments;

for each push notification of the push notification set, generating a corresponding metadata set including (i) data specifying a configuration for assembling the multiple content segments of the push notification set on the mobile computing device, (ii) data identifying a sequence number of the push notification, and (iii) data identifying a total number of push notifications of the push notification set based on a number of content segments of the multiple content segments;

packaging each push notification of the push notification set to include the corresponding metadata set; and

transmitting each push notification of the push notification set with the corresponding metadata set to the mobile computing device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the data specifying the configuration for assembling the multiple content segments includes a sequence for assembling the multiple content segments.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the data specifying the configuration for assembling the multiple content segments includes a rule that identifies which of the multiple content segments is to trigger execution of an application process on the mobile computing device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the corresponding metadata set of at least one push notification of the push notification set includes a rule specifying whether the mobile computing device is to initiate performance of a corresponding operation in response to receive some but not all of the total number of push notifications.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the content data set includes one or more messages.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the content data set includes an article.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein segmenting the content data set into the multiple content segments includes segmenting the content data set into payloads of size 2000 or 4000 bytes, based on a platform of the mobile computing device.

8. A network computer system comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory resource that stores instructions, that when executed by the one or more processors, cause the network computer system to;

identify a content data set for transmission to a mobile computing device;

segment the content data set into multiple content segments;

generate a push notification set by generating a push notification for each content segment of the multiple content segments, each push notification of the push notification set including a payload with a corresponding content segment of the multiple content segments;

for each push notification of the push notification set, generate a corresponding metadata set including (i) data specifying a configuration for assembling the multiple content segments of the push notification set on the mobile computing device, (ii) data identifying a sequence number of the push notification, and (iii) data identifying a total number of push notifications of the push notification set based on a number of content segments of the multiple content segments;

package each push notification of the push notification set to include the corresponding metadata set; and

transmit each push notification of the push notification set with the corresponding metadata set to the mobile computing device.

9. The network computer system of claim 8, wherein the data specifying the configuration for assembling the multiple content segments includes a sequence for assembling the multiple content segments.

10. The network computer system of claim 8, wherein the corresponding metadata set of at least one push notification of the push notification set includes a rule that identifies which of the multiple content segments is to trigger execution of an application process on the mobile computing device.

11. The network computer system of claim 8, wherein the corresponding metadata set of at least one push notification of the push notification set includes

a rule specifying whether the mobile computing device is to initiate performance of a corresponding operation in response to receive some but not all of the total number of push notifications.

12. The network computer system of claim 8, wherein the content data set includes one or more messages.

13. The network computer system of claim 8, wherein the content data set includes an article.

14. The network computer system of claim 8, wherein the instructions that cause the network computer system to segment the content data set into the multiple content segments, further causes the network computer system to:

segment the content data set into payloads of size 2000 or 4000 bytes, based on a platform of the mobile computing device.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium to store instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a network computer system, cause the network computer system to:

identify a content data set for transmission to a mobile computing device;

segment the content data set into multiple content segments;

generate a push notification set by generating a push notification for each content segment of the multiple content segments, each push notification of the push notification set including a payload with a corresponding content segment of the multiple content segments;

for each push notification of the push notification set, generate a corresponding metadata set including (i) data specifying a configuration for assembling the multiple content segments of the push notification set on the mobile computing device, (ii) data identifying a sequence number of the push notification, and (iii) data identifying a total number of push notifications of the push notification set based on a number of content segments of the multiple content segments;

package each push notification of the push notification set to include the corresponding metadata set; and

transmit each push notification of the push notification set with the corresponding metadata set to the mobile computing device.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the data specifying the configuration for assembling the multiple content segments includes a sequence for assembling the multiple content segments.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the data specifying the configuration for assembling the multiple content segments includes a rule that identifies which of the multiple content segments is to trigger execution of an application process on the mobile computing device.