MANAGING NOTIFICATIONS PUSHED TO USER DEVICES

• US 20170171338A1
• Filed: 02/27/2017
• Published: 06/15/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Garcia, David Harry, Papakipos, Matthew Nicholas
• Granted Patent: US 10,021,203 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/01 Satellite radio beacon positioning systems transmitting time-stamped messages, e.g. GPS [Global Positioning System], GLONASS [Global Orbiting Navigation Satellite System] or GALILEO
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/13 Receivers
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1093 Calendar-based scheduling for persons or groups
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1095 Meeting or appointment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/10 Active monitoring, e.g. heartbeat, ping or trace-route
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/226 Delivery according to priorities
• 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 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

In one embodiment, a computing device determines a communication to be sent to a client computing device. The communication could be a push notification or a keep-alive message from a social-networking system, the client computing device being associated with a user of the social-networking system. The computing device determines that a plurality of network connections already exists between the social-networking system and the client computing device, wherein at least one of the network connections is reserved for, and dedicated exclusively to, sending or receiving notifications or keep-alive messages. The computing device sends the communication to the client computing device using the reserved and dedicated network connection.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

by a computing server, determining a communication to be sent to a client computing device, wherein the communication comprises a push notification or a keep-alive message from a social-networking system; and

by the computing server, sending the communication to the client computing device, wherein;

the client computing device has a plurality of network connections with the social-networking system, wherein at least one of the network connections from the plurality of network connections is reserved for and dedicated exclusively to sending and receiving notifications or keep-alive messages; and

the communication is sent to the client computing device via the reserved and dedicated network connection.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the sending the communication to the client computing device is based on a priority of the communication with respect to a user of the client computing device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the communication is sent to the client computing device if the priority of the communication exceeds a predetermined threshold.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the priority of the communication comprises indicating whether the communication is interruptive or non-interruptive.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the priority of the communication is based at least in part on one or more of:

a location of an entity associated with the communication;

an interest value determined for the communication with respect to the user;

a time associated with the communication;

or

a connection value indicating a number of the user'"'"'s connections on a social graph associated with the communication.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the user is associated with the social-networking system, and the priority of the communication for the user is based on information regarding that user stored by the social-networking system.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the priority of the communication is further based on one or more current activities of the user.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the current activities of the user are determined based on a status of the client computing device determined by one or more sensors of the client computing device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the one or more sensors comprise one or more of:

an altimeter;

a motion sensor;

a light sensor;

a temperature sensor;

or

a biometric sensor.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the one or more current activities of the user are based at least in part on one or more events scheduled in a calendar of the user.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the user has indicated one or more events or one or more types of events scheduled in the calendar for which the user does not wish to receive push notifications.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the push notification is sent to the client computing device to be received by a secondary processor of the client computing device, wherein the secondary processor uses a priority of the communication to determine whether to wake up a main processor of the client computing device to perform a task associated with the communication.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the secondary processor is a sensors hub of the client computing device.

14. The method of claim 12 wherein the secondary processor is a low-power-consuming processor.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of network connections between the client computing device and the social-networking system is maintained by a connection pool manager of the client computing device.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of network connections comprises one or more network connections intended to be shared among a plurality of software applications executing on the client computing device.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein the keep-alive message is sent to a secondary processor of the client computing device.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the reserved and dedicated connection is used by the secondary processor of the client computing device to send a response to the social-networking system.

19. One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed to:

determine a communication to be sent to a client computing device, wherein the communication comprises a push notification or a keep-alive message from a social-networking system; and

send the communication to the client computing device, wherein;

the client computing device has a plurality of network connections with the social-networking system, wherein at least one of the network connections from the plurality of network connections is reserved for and dedicated exclusively to sending and receiving notifications or keep-alive messages; and

the communication is sent to the client computing device via the reserved and dedicated network connection.

20. A system comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors operable when executing the instructions to;

determine a communication to be sent to a client computing device, wherein the communication comprises a push notification or a keep-alive message from a social-networking system; and

send the communication to the client computing device, wherein;

the client computing device has a plurality of network connections with the social-networking system, wherein at least one of the network connections from the plurality of network connections is reserved for and dedicated exclusively to sending and receiving notifications or keep-alive messages; and

the communication is sent to the client computing device via the reserved and dedicated network connection.