Publish-subscription platforms for alert messages and related methods and computer program products

• US 8,914,433 B2
• Filed: 09/20/2007
• Issued: 12/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Glasgow, Jay, Hart, Charles Frederick, Dodgen, Jeff David, Branam, Michael Glenn
• Primary Examiner(s): Hussain, Imad
• Application Number:
  US11/858,250
• Publication Number:
  US 20080147737A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,644 Days
• Field of Search: 709/206, 709/217, 709/238, 709/227, 709/201, 455/404, 455/422.1, 455/456.1, 455/466, 455/518, 455/404.1, 455/456.2, 379/265.09, 379 37- 51, 370/392, 370/503, 340/286.06, 340/539.16, 340/7.58, 340/7.59, 340/506, 340/534, 375/272
• US Class Current: 709/201
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 27/005 with transmission via computer network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

An alert delivery system includes a publish-subscription platform that is configured to receive alert messages from one or more sources. The publish-subscription platform is further configured to publish the alert messages to client devices based on matches between geographic locations respectively associated with ones of the alert messages and geographic locations respectively associated with ones of the client devices.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving alert messages from an alert source, the alert messages comprising an analog alert message;

converting the analog alert message to a digital alert message;

publishing the alert messages to client devices based on matches between geographic locations respectively associated with ones of the alert messages and geographic locations respectively associated with ones of the client devices and based on whether the client devices have subscribed to the alert messages;

authenticating using an authentication server the client devices using session initiation protocol to obtain the geographic locations associated with the client devices;

authenticating using the authentication server customers of Web services; and

storing authentication information associated with the Web services customers in an information repository;

wherein the alert messages are not associated with an incoming call from a calling device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the publishing the alert messages comprises:

comparing the geographic locations associated with the alert messages with the geographic locations associated with the client devices;

publishing the alert messages to the client devices based on comparing the geographic locations associated with the alert messages with the geographic locations associated with the client devices.

3. The method of claim 2, further wherein publishing the alert messages to the client devices comprises:

translating between Web Services Description Language messages and Session Initiation Protocol messages.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein authenticating the client devices comprises:

converting the geographic locations obtained from the client devices into Federal Information Processing Standard codes; and

storing the Federal Information Processing Standard codes associated with the client devices in an information repository.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the information repository comprises one of:

a home subscriber server database that is a repository for IP address information roaming information, and telephony services information associated with the client devices;

a home location register that is a repository for registration information, call settings, subscribed features, location information directory information, mobility management information, and identification information associated with the client devices; and

a customer identity store that is a repository for the geographic locations associated with the client devices.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein authenticating the client devices comprises:

providing the authentication information associated with the Web services customers to Web services providers that have leased the authentication information.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein publishing the alert messages comprises:

publishing the alert messages to the client devices using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.

8. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor and comprising computer readable program code that when executed by the processor causes the processor to perform operations comprising;

receiving alert messages from an alert source, the alert messages comprising an analog alert message;

converting the analog alert message to a digital alert message;

publishing the alert messages to client devices based on matches between geographic locations respectively associated with ones of the alert messages and geographic locations respectively associated with ones of the client devices and based on whether the client devices have subscribed to the alert messages;

authenticating using an authentication server the client devices using session initiation protocol to obtain the geographic locations associated with the client devices;

authenticating using the authentication server customers of Web services; and

storing authentication information associated with the Web services customers in an information repository;

wherein the alert messages are not associated with an incoming call from a calling device.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein publishing the alert messages comprises:

comparing the geographic locations associated with the alert messages with the geographic locations associated with the client devices;

publishing the alert messages to the client devices based on comparing the geographic locations associated with the alert messages with the geographic locations associated with the client devices.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein publishing the alert messages comprises:

publishing the alert messages to the client devices using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.

11. The system of claim 9, further wherein publishing the alert messages to the client devices comprises:

translating between Web Services Description Language messages and Session Initiation Protocol messages.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein authenticating the client devices comprises:

converting the geographic locations obtained from the client devices into Federal Information Processing Standard codes; and

storing the Federal Information Processing Standard codes associated with the client devices in an information repository.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the information repository comprises one of:

a home subscriber server database that is a repository for IP address information roaming information, and telephony services information associated with the client devices;

a home location register that is a repository for registration information, call settings, subscribed features, location information directory information, mobility management information, and identification information associated with the client devices; and

a customer identity store that is a repository for the geographic locations associated with the client devices.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein authenticating the client devices comprises:

providing the authentication information associated with the Web services customers to Web services providers that have leased the authentication information.

15. A computer program product, comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable memory comprising computer readable program code that when executed by a processor causes the processor to perform operations comprising;

receiving alert messages from an alert source, the alert messages comprising an analog alert message;

converting the analog alert message to a digital alert message;

publishing the alert messages to client devices based on matches between geographic locations respectively associated with ones of the alert messages and geographic locations respectively associated with ones of the client devices and based on whether the client devices have subscribed to the alert messages;

authenticating using an authentication server the client devices using session initiation protocol to obtain the geographic locations associated with the client devices;

authenticating using the authentication server customers of Web services; and

storing authentication information associated with the Web services customers in an information repository;

wherein the alert messages are not associated with an incoming call from a calling device.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein publishing the alert messages comprises:

comparing the geographic locations associated with the alert messages with the geographic locations associated with the client devices;

publishing the alert messages to the client devices based on comparing the geographic locations associated with the alert messages with the geographic locations associated with the client devices.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein publishing the alert messages comprises:

publishing the alert messages to the client devices using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.

18. The computer program product of claim 16, further wherein publishing the alert messages to the client devices comprises:

translating between Web Services Description Language messages and Session Initiation Protocol messages.

19. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein authenticating the client devices comprises:

converting the geographic locations obtained from the client devices into Federal Information Processing Standard codes; and

storing the Federal Information Processing Standard codes associated with the client devices in an information repository.

20. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the information repository comprises one of:

a home subscriber server database that is a repository for IP address information roaming information, and telephony services information associated with the client devices;

a home location register that is a repository for registration information, call settings, subscribed features, location information directory information, mobility management information, and identification information associated with the client devices; and

a customer identity store that is a repository for the geographic locations associated with the client devices.