SYSTEM AND METHOD OF A RELAY SERVER FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATIONS AND NOTIFICATION BETWEEN A MOBILE DEVICE AND APPLICATION SERVER

• US 20110191474A1
• Filed: 04/13/2011
• Published: 08/04/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seven Networks LLC (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Seven Networks Inc
• Inventors: Fiatal, Trevor
• Granted Patent: US 8,799,410 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/225
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/026 Details of "hello" or keep-alive messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication

Abstract

Providing a mobile device with web-based access to data objects is disclosed. Authentication information is sent from a mobile device to a relay server. The relay server executes a connection application to establish a connection to a web access server. The authentication information is provided to the web access server associated with a data store hosting a data object. Upon authentication, the data object is provided to the relay server from the data store. The data object is then provided to the mobile device.

Claims

1. A method of providing a mobile device web-based access to a data object, the method comprising:

establishing, by a relay server, a connection to a web access server associated with the application server;

wherein, access of the relay server to the data object hosted by the application server is enabled in response to authentication of access to the application server; and

receiving, by the relay server, keep-alive pings from the mobile device to maintain connectivity between the mobile device and the relay server.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, by the relay server, that the data object has been updated; and

sending a notification to the mobile device that the object has been updated.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, by the relay server, that the data object has been updated; and

automatically sending an updated version of the data object to the mobile device.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to detecting that the data object has been updated, sending a query to determine whether a user of the mobile device wishes to receive an updated version of the data object; and

transmitting the updated version of the data object to the mobile device in response to determining that the user wishes to receive the updated version of the data object.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein, the relay server generates keep alive pings to be sent to the web access server.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising, sending, by the relay server keep alive pings to the web access server.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein, the relay server receives instructions from the mobile device to generate keep alive pings to be sent to the web access server.

8. A method of providing a mobile device web-based access to a data object, the method comprising:

establishing, by a relay server, a connection to a web access server associated with the application server;

wherein, access of the relay server to the data object hosted by the application server is enabled in response to authentication of access to the application server;

generating, by the relay server, keep-alive pings to be sent to the web access server to maintain connectivity between the relay server and the web access server; and

sending the keep-alive pings to the web access server.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein, the relay server receives instructions to generate keep alive pings to be sent to the web access server.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein, the instructions are received from the mobile device.

11. A method of providing a mobile device web-based access to a data object, the method comprising:

establishing, by a relay server, a connection to a web access server associated with the application server;

wherein, access of the relay server to the data object hosted by the application server is enabled in response to authentication of access to the application server;

receiving the data object from the application server and subsequently determining that the data object has been updated; and

notifying the mobile device indicating that the data object has been updated.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising, receiving, at the relay server, credential information for the authentication of access from the mobile device.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising, retrieving credential information for the authentication of access from a database at the relay server.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein, the notifying the mobile device includes sending an updated version of the data object.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein, the notifying the mobile device includes sending a query to determine whether a user of the mobile device wishes to receive an updated version of the data object.