Method and apparatus for minimizing application delay by pushing application notifications

• US 9,438,640 B2
• Filed: 08/28/2014
• Issued: 09/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Vonage America LLC (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson)
• Original Assignee: Vonage America Incorporated (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson)
• Inventors: Efrati, Tzahi
• Primary Examiner(s): BOUTAH, ALINA A
• Application Number:
  US14/471,970
• Publication Number:
  US 20140372622A1
• Time in Patent Office: 740 Days
• Field of Search: 709/228, 709/204, 709/206, 709/220, 370/352, 455/418, 455/426.1, 455/435.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1073 Registration or de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1104 Session initiation protocol [SIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

A method for minimizing application initialization delay comprising sending, from a privileged application executing on a mobile device, a registration message to a server, receiving, at the privileged application, a response message from the server, extracting, from the response message, application information and notifying the mobile device of the application information.

Claims

1. A method for providing application information updates in a response message, comprising:

receiving, at a registration service, a registration message directly from a device;

receiving application information updates from one or more third party services related to applications on the device;

forming, in response to receiving the registration message, a response message comprising at least the application information updates;

adding the application information updates into the response message, wherein the application information updates comprise updated content from the one or more third party services; and

sending the formed response message to the device, wherein the response message enables the device to update information in the application.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the application information updates are embedded into one or more headers of the response message.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the formed response message to the registration message is an Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) 200 “

OK”

message.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the registration service is a VoIP registration service, and wherein the registration message is a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) REGISTER message.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the formed response message to the registration message is an SIP 200 “

OK”

message.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the application information updates are embedded into one or more headers of the SIP 200 “

OK”

message.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

embedding application flag information into the response message, wherein the application flag information comprises flags indicating application information to be updated.

8. An apparatus for providing application information updates in a response message, comprising:

a registration service configured to;

receive a registration message directly from a device;

receive application information updates from one or more third party services related to applications on the device;

form, in response to receiving the registration message, a response message comprising at least the application information updates;

add the application information updates into the response message, wherein the application information updates comprise updated content from the one or more third party services; and

send the formed response message to the device, wherein the response message enables the device to update information in the application.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the registration service is further configured to embed the application information updates into one or more headers of the response message.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the registration service is a VoIP registration service, and wherein the registration message is a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) REGISTER message.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the registration service is further configured to send a SIP 200 “

OK”

message as the response message to the registration message.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the registration service is further configured to embed the application information updates into one or more headers of the response message.

13. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the registration service is further configured to send a SIP 200 “

OK”

message as the response message to the registration message.

14. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the registration service is further configured to embed application flag information into the response message, and wherein the application flag information comprises flags indicating application information to be updated.