PUSH NOTIFICATION ACTIVATION

• US 20170064024A1
• Filed: 08/29/2016
• Published: 03/02/2017
• 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
• Granted Patent: US 9,923,887 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 a trigger at a first instance, the trigger being associated with a predefined condition or event;

(b) detecting the predefined condition or event at a second instance;

(c) in response to detecting the predefined condition or event, activating a notification on the mobile computing device that is based on the trigger.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein (a) includes obtaining notification data from a network service at the first instance, wherein the notification is based on the notification data.

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

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

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the predefined condition or event corresponds to a proximity condition.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein (a) includes receiving the notification data as the trigger when the mobile 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 notification data for a notification from the external source;

store a notification in the memory that is based on the notification data, the notification being associated with data that defines a condition for triggering the notification;

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

locally activate the notification without use of the network resources.

11. The mobile computing device of claim 10, wherein the one or more processors activate the notification by processing the notification 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 an incoming notification that includes 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, cause the one or more processors to perform operations that include:

(a) receiving a trigger at a first instance, the trigger being associated with a predefined condition or event;

(b) detecting the predefined condition or event at a second instance;

(c) in response to detecting the predefined condition or event, activating a notification on the mobile computing device that is based on the trigger.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16, wherein (a) includes obtaining notification data from a network service at the first instance, wherein the notification is based on the notification data.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16, further comprises enabling the 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.