Real time push notification in an event driven network

• US 20060200387A1
• Filed: 07/15/2005
• Published: 09/07/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fiorano Technologies Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Atul Saini
• Inventors: Saini, Atul
• Granted Patent: US 7,617,162 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0269 based on user profile or attribute
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass

Abstract

This invention discloses a method and system for matching attributes across an event driven network of user applications at the instance of a change in the attribute profiles of a user application. Each user application in the network has a set of one or more updatable attributes. Once a change is made to one or more attributes in the user application, information about the changed attribute is broadcasted to other user applications in the event driven network. A notification manager coordinates the trigger for notification and the matching of the attributes.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method of matching attributes across an event driven network of user applications through broadcasting change notifications to a subnet of transacting user applications in the event driven network, comprising the steps of:

creating a network of user applications wherein each user application has a set of one or more updatable attributes;

generating attribute profiles for users of one or more user applications in the network, wherein an attribute profile consists of a set of sub-attributes, each said sub-attribute comprising a set of bytes of information;

storing the user application attribute profile in a database;

transmitting the attribute profile between the user applications over the event driven network, wherein the user applications exchange information with each other either directly or indirectly using one or more transmission protocols;

broadcasting the information of any changed attribute in the attribute profile recorded by a user application to one or more user applications in the event driven network, said broadcasting occurring when any attribute in the attribute profile of the user application is changed;

comparing one or more sub-attributes of an incoming attribute profile with one or more sub attributes of the stored attribute profile of the receiving user application, wherein the matching is performed within the receiving user application whereby the need for a centralized matching engine is precluded and wherein the step of comparing one or more sub-attributes is implemented by a set of matching instructions for the attributes, with the matching instructions stored in any user application thereby obviating the need for a central user application or central device;

creating and transmitting a notification in the event of a successful match with one or more user applications on the network.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein each user application is accessible by every other user application in the event driven network.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the attribute profile comprises any information of transactional interest to the user.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the user application can reside in a computer, personal digital assistant or a wireless handset.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the event driven network is an enterprise network, local area network or a wide area network.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein at least two of the user applications can communicate independent of a third user application in the event driven network.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the event driven network is a peer to peer network, wherein each user'"'"'s computer is accessible by another peer though one or more hops.

8. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the step of notifying a successful match occurs for one or more matches of attributes after a comparison of the changed attribute with the stored request of the user.

9. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the step of generating a request by a user includes setting an expiry time for notification.

10. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the step of updating an attribute occurs when the user application is either logged in or logged out of the event driven network.

11. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the step of sending a notification of a successful match is executed through one or more communication means such as e-mail, short message send, pop up electronic messages, fax message and phone call.

12. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the step of generating a request includes specifying the means of communication in the event of a notification.

13. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the subnet is defined by the geographical location or area of interest of the user.

14. A system for matching attributes across an event driven event driven network of user applications, comprising:

a database located in the user'"'"'s user application for storing the attribute information of the user application, wherein the database is located in the device hosting the user application or the database is a distributed database across multiple devices in the event driven network; and

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a notification manager embedded in every user application for sensing changes in attributes in the local database and transmitting the information on the changed attributes to other user applications.