ADJUSTING PUSH NOTIFICATIONS BASED ON LOCATION PROXIMITY

• US 20140095617A1
• Filed: 09/30/2013
• Published: 04/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Razer (Asia-Pacific) Pte. Ltd. (Razer Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Nextbit Systems, Inc. (Razer Incorporated)
• Inventors: Chan, Michael A., Quan, Justin
• Granted Patent: US 10,671,634 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/125 characterised by the use of retention policies retention policies for HSM systems G06F16/185
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/174 Redundancy elimination performed by the file system management of the data involved in backup or backup restore using de-duplication of the data G06F11/14
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/20 of structured data, e.g. relational data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/273 Asynchronous replication or reconciliation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/275 Synchronous replication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/278 Data partitioning, e.g. horizontal or vertical partitioning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5038 considering the execution order of a plurality of tasks, e.g. taking priority or time dependency constraints into consideration scheduling strategies G06F9/4881 and subgroups
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/26 at least one of which is mobile
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• 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 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

Technology is disclosed for transmitting notification updates to computing devices (“the technology”). Various embodiments of the technology includes a proxy server that facilitates transmission of notifications to the computing devices based on a location proximity and/or access pattern of the computing devices. In one such embodiment, if a particular computing device of the user is not within a predefined location proximity of a primary computing device of the user, the proxy server delays or decreases the frequency of transmission of the notifications to the particular mobile device. In another example, based on the access pattern of the particular computing device, if the proxy server determines that the user is not likely to use the particular computing device, e.g. until a certain point of time, the proxy server delays or decreases the frequency of the transmission of the notifications to the particular mobile device until around that certain point of time.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting notifications using a proxy server, the method comprising:

receiving, at the proxy server, a request to transmit the notifications to a first computing device associated with a user, the request including the notifications;

determining, by the proxy server, a location proximity between the first computing device and a primary computing device associated the user;

determining, by the proxy server, whether the location proximity between the first computing device and the primary computing device satisfies a proximity based notification criterion; and

responsive to a determination that the location proximity between the first computing device and the primary computing device satisfies the proximity based notification criterion, facilitating, by the proxy server, a transmission of the notifications to the first computing device.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

responsive to a determination that the location proximity between the first computing device and the primary device does not satisfy the proximity based notification criterion, storing, by the proxy server, the notifications for later transmission to the first computing device.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

facilitating, by the proxy server, the transmission of the stored notifications to the first computing device when the location proximity between the first computing device and the primary computing device satisfies the proximity based notification criterion.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether the location proximity satisfies the proximity based notification criterion includes determining whether a proximity value determined as a function of geographical distance between the first computing device and the primary device is within a predefined range.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether the location proximity satisfies the proximity based notification criterion includes determining whether the first computing device and the primary computing device share a common communication network.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the common communication network includes a wireless network.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether location proximity satisfies the proximity based notification criterion includes determining whether a distance between the first computing device and the primary computing device is within a predefined range that allows the first computing device and the primary computing device to communicate with each other directly using a peer to peer communication technology.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the peer to peer communication technology includes at least one of (a) Bluetooth, (b) WiFi direct, (c) Near field communication (NFC), (d) AirDrop, or (e) Infrared.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the primary computing device associated with the user includes at least one of (a) a computing device that is being used by the user at a given instance or (b) a computing device that is used by the user more frequently than other computing devices associated with the user.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the proximity based notification criterion is determined based on an access pattern of the first computing device by the user.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein determining the access pattern of the first computing device includes tracking data specifying at least one of (a) a time of the day, (b) a day of the week, (c) a time of the month, (d) a time of the year, or (e) a period for which the first computing device is accessed by the user to generate historical access data.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising:

predicting, based on the historical access data, access data specifying at least one of (a) a time of the day, (b) a day of the week, (c) a time of the month, (d) a time of the year, or (e) a period for which the first computing device is likely to be accessed by the user.

13. The method of claim 12 further comprising:

facilitating the transmission of the notifications based on the predicted access data.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein determining the access pattern of the first computing device includes determining the access pattern of the first computing device in relation to an occurrence of an event that is not associated with the first computing device.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein facilitating a transmission of the notifications to the first computing device includes

adjusting a frequency of transmission of the notifications to the first computing device, the adjusting including increasing a frequency of the transmission when the location proximity between the primary computing device and the first computing device increases and decreasing a frequency of transmission of the notifications when the location proximity decreases.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving a request to transmit the notifications to a first computing device includes receiving the notifications at the proxy server from a remote server different from that of the proxy server.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving a request to transmit the notifications to a first computing device includes receiving the notifications at the proxy server from at least one of the primary computing device or other one or more computing devices associated with the user different from the first computing device.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein facilitating a transmission of the notifications to the first computing device includes facilitating, by the proxy server, the primary computing device to transmit the notifications to the first computing device directly.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein determining a location proximity between the first computing device and a primary computing device associated the user includes determining a first location of the first computing device and a second location of the primary device.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein determining the first location includes determining a geographical location of the first computing device via at least one of (a) a global positing system (GPS) device on the first computing device or (b) an application installed on the first computing device that has data specifying the geographical location of the first computing device.

21. The method of claim 1, wherein the notifications include at least one of (a) a notification from an application on the primary computing device, (b) a notification from an application associated with a remote server, (c) an update to an application installed on the first computing device, or (d) a synchronization message from the primary computing device for synchronizing a state of an application between the primary computing device and the first computing device.

22. A proxy server comprising:

a processor;

communication means that works in cooperation with the processor to receive notifications from at least one of a primary computing device associated with a user or a remote server that is in communication with the proxy server;

a location proximity determination module that works in cooperation with the processor to determine a location proximity between the primary computing device and a first computing device associated with the user, the location proximity including at least one of (a) a first proximity value determined as a function of geographical distance between the first computing device and the primary device or (b) a second proximity value determined as a distance between the first communicating device and the primary device; and

a notification push determination module that works in cooperation with the processor to determine whether at least one of (a) the first proximity value is within a first range for facilitating transmission of the notifications to the first computing device or (b) the second proximity value is within a second range that allows the first communicating device and the primary device to communicate with each other directly using a peer to peer communication technology.

23. The proxy server of claim 22, wherein the communication means is further configured to facilitate transmission of the notifications to the first computing device based on the determination by the notification push determination module.

24. The proxy server of claim 22, wherein the communication means is further configured to facilitate transmission of the notifications from the remote server to the primary computing device regardless of a result of the determination by the notification push determination module.

25. The proxy server of claim 22, wherein the peer to peer communication technology includes at least one of (a) Bluetooth, (b) WiFi direct, (c) Near field communication (NFC), (d) AirDrop, or (e) Infrared.

26. The proxy server of claim 22, wherein the location proximity determination module is configured to determine the location proximity between the first computing device and the primary computing device by determining a first location of the first computing device and a second location of the primary device.

27. The proxy server of claim 26, wherein the location proximity determination module is configured to determine the first location by determining a geographical location of the first computing device via at least one of (a) a global positing system (GPS) device on the first computing device, (b) an application installed on the first computing device that has data specifying the geographical location of the first computing device.

28. A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions which, when executed by a processor, performs a method of:

receiving at a proxy server a request to transmit notifications to a first computing device associated with a user, the request including the notifications;

determining by the proxy server a location proximity between the first computing device and a primary computing device associated the user; and

determining, by the proxy server, whether the location proximity between the first computing device and the primary computing device is within a predefined proximity range for facilitating transmission of the notifications to the first computing device; and

responsive to a determination that the location proximity is within the predefined proximity range, adjusting by the proxy server a frequency of transmission of the notifications to the first computing device as a function of the location proximity.

29. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 28 having instructions which, when executed by the processor, further performs the method of storing by the proxy server the notifications, responsive to a determination that the location proximity is not within the predefined proximity range, for later transmission to the first computing device.

30. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 28, wherein the instructions for adjusting the frequency includes instructions for at least one of increasing the frequency of transmission as the location proximity between the between the first computing device increases and the primary computing device or decreasing the frequency of transmission as the location proximity between the between the first computing device and the primary computing device decreases.

31. A method comprising:

receiving at a proxy server a request to transmit notifications to a first computing device associated with a user, the request including the notifications from at least one of a remote server or a primary computing device associated with the user;

determining, by the proxy server, whether the user is likely to use the first computing device based on an access pattern of the first computing device, the access pattern determined based on historical usage data of the first computing device and a location proximity between the first computing device and the primary computing device; and

responsive to a determination that the user is likely to use the first computing device, facilitating by the proxy server a transmission of the notifications to the first computing device.

32. The method of claim 31, wherein determining the access pattern based on the historical usage data and the location proximity includes determining whether the user is likely or not to access the first computing device (a) at a particular a time of the day, (b) at a particular day of the week, (c) at a particular a time of the month, (d) a particular a time of the year, (e) when the primary computing device is within a predefined location proximity range from the first computing device, (f) when the primary computing device is not within a predefined location proximity range from the first computing device, or (g) in relation to an occurrence of an event that is neither associated with the first computing device nor the primary computing device.