Push notification activation

• US 9,923,887 B2
• Filed: 08/29/2016
• Issued: 03/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pivotal Software, Inc. (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Pivotal Software, Inc. (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: Sojoodi, Sina, Winters, Joshua Paul Balla, D'Cunha, Mark Anthony, Khalili, Tanzeeb Rahman, Forde, Dwayne Elsworth, Smith, Matthew Leonard Robert, Szumlakowski, Robert, Riemer, Ernst Siegfried Norman
• Primary Examiner(s): Figueroa, Marisol
• Application Number:
  US15/250,853
• Publication Number:
  US 20170064024A1
• Time in Patent Office: 568 Days
• Field of Search: 4554561-457
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/04 for providing a confidential data exchange among entities communicating through data packet networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0823 using certificates cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication involving certificates H04L9/3263
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• 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 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• 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 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds

Abstract

A mobile computing device is operated to receive a trigger at a first instance. The trigger may be associated with a predefined condition or event or action. The mobile computing device may detect the predefined condition or event at a second instance. In response to detecting the predefined condition or event, a notification is activated on the mobile computing device that is based on the trigger.

Claims

1. A method for operating a mobile computing device, the method comprising:

(a) receiving, on the mobile computing device, each of (i) a trigger associated with a predefined condition or event, and (ii) a plurality of notifications for use by a plurality of applications;

(b) when the mobile computing device is without network access, detecting, by the mobile computing device, the predefined condition or event; and

(c) in response to detecting the predefined condition or event, activating, by the mobile computing device, at least one of the plurality of notifications based on the trigger, wherein activating the at least one of the plurality of notifications includes determining which of the plurality of applications are to receive the activated notification.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein (a) includes obtaining notification data from a network service, wherein the plurality of notifications are based on the notification data.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprises enabling a user to define each of the plurality of notifications, the trigger, predefined condition or event, and/or notification data.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the predefined condition or event corresponds to at least one of a geographic condition or a proximity condition.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining which of the plurality of applications are to receive the activated notification is based on which of the plurality of applications correspond to the activated notification.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein (a) includes receiving the notification data as the trigger when the mobile computing device is online, the notification data originating from a network service.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein (b) includes using sensing data local to the mobile computing device to detect the predefined condition or event.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein (c) is performed without use of the network service.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein (b) and (c) are performed when the mobile computing device is offline.

10. A mobile computing device comprising:

one or more processors;

a memory;

network resources, including a network interface to exchange communications with an external source;

wherein the one or more processors;

use the network resources to receive (i) notification data for a plurality of notifications from the external source, each notification of the plurality of notifications corresponding to an application being executed on the mobile computing device and (ii) data that defines a condition for activating the notification, wherein at least one of the plurality of notifications is associated with the data that defines the condition;

store the plurality of notifications in the memory that is based on the notification data;

detect an occurrence of the condition using local resources of the mobile computing device; and

in response to detecting the occurrence of the condition, locally activate the at least one of the plurality of notifications without use of the network resources, wherein activating the at least one of the plurality of notifications includes determining which of a plurality of applications are to receive the activated notification.

11. The mobile computing device of claim 10, wherein the one or more processors activate the notification by processing each of the plurality of notifications as a push notification.

12. The mobile computing device of claim 10, wherein the one or more processors determine the data that defines the condition from a header of each of the plurality of notifications of the notification data.

13. The mobile computing device of claim 10, wherein the condition corresponds to a geographic condition.

14. The mobile computing device of claim 13, further comprising:

one or more sensors, and

wherein the one or more processors use the one or more sensors to detect the occurrence of the condition.

15. The mobile computing device of claim 14, wherein the one or more sensors include at least one of a Global Positioning System (GPS) unit, accelerometer, inertial mass unit, or magnetometer.

16. A non-transitory computer readable medium that stores instructions, which when executed by one or more processors of a mobile computing device, cause the of a mobile computing device to:

(a) receive each of (i) a trigger associated with a predefined condition or event, and (ii) a plurality of notifications for use by a plurality of applications;

(b) when the mobile computing device is without network access, detect the predefined condition or event; and

(c) in response to detecting the predefined condition or event, activate at least one of the plurality of notifications based on the trigger, wherein activating the at least one of the plurality of notifications includes determining which of the plurality of applications are to receive the activated notification.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16, wherein the instructions for (a) further includes obtaining notification data from a network service, wherein the plurality of notifications are based on the notification data.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16, wherein the instructions further cause the mobile computing device to:

enable a user to define the notification, the trigger, predefined condition or event, and/or notification data.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16, wherein the predefined condition or event corresponds to a geographic condition.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16, wherein the predefined condition or event corresponds to a proximity condition.