Automatic Notification System and Process

• US 20110231557A1
• Filed: 05/26/2011
• Published: 09/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Sharp, Christopher Brooke, McCarthy, Brendan A.
• Granted Patent: US 8,612,527 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/227
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication

Abstract

Receiving a notification message by a mobile subscriber can include establishing a session with a notification service; maintaining a persistent communication connection with the notification service after the session is established; subscribing to a node hosted by the notification service, wherein the node is pre-provisioned for use by a mobile subscriber; and receiving from the notification service a notification message corresponding to the subscribed node. Further, a message can be transmitted over the communication connection to the notification service at a predetermined interval and it can be determined whether the communication connection is viable. Additionally, it can be determined that the communication connection is no longer viable if no response is received from the notification service, the period of the predetermined interval can be decreased, and another session with the notification service can be established.

Claims

1. A method performed by one or more processes executing on a mobile electronic device, the method comprising:

establishing, by the mobile electronic device, a session with a notification service system;

maintaining, by the mobile electronic device, the established session with the notification service system at least in part by

repeatedly transmitting messages to the notification service system, and

receiving, from the notification service system, respective responses to the transmitted messages, said transmitting the messages and said receiving the respective responses occurring in alternate fashion such that the messages are transmitted to the notification service system only after receipt of responses from the notification service to respective previous messages;

determining, by the mobile electronic device, that no response to a message transmitted by the mobile electronic device has been received from the notification service;

re-establishing, by the mobile electronic device, the session with the notification service system in response to said determining; and

maintaining, by the mobile electronic device, the re-established session with the notification service system at least in part by resuming said repeatedly transmitting the messages to the notification service system and said receiving the responses from the notification service system, the transmissions of the re-established session being repeated more frequently than the transmissions of the originally established session.