System and method for pushing smart alerts

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10686904-B2
Application number	US-201715786781-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 18, 2017
Priority date	Nov 1, 2013
Publication date	Jun 16, 2020
Grant date	Jun 16, 2020

Abstract

An alert notification is received and evaluated by a processor. An identifier of a subscriber who is registered to receive the first alert notification is identified. The subscriber identifier is used to select assessment rules corresponding to the first alert notification. The assessment rules are applied to the alert notification to determine whether the receipt of the alert notification satisfies a condition for taking one or more actions. If the condition is met, one or more commands are issued to effectuate the one or more actions.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of communicating alert notifications, comprising:
receiving, by a notification server from an alert provider, an alert notification that includes triggering information configured to cause a client application operating in a background of a client device of a target subscriber to perform an action;
determining, by the notification server, whether the alert notification includes a subscriber eligibility rule;
identifying, by the notification server, one or more subscribers registered to receive the alert notification based on provider rules stored at the notification server in response to determining that the alert notification does not include the subscriber eligibility rule;
identifying, by the notification server, the one or more subscribers registered to receive the alert notification based on the subscriber eligibility rule included in the received alert notification in response to determining that the alert notification includes the subscriber eligibility rule, the identified one or more subscribers including the target subscriber;
determining, by the notification server, whether one or more filter parameters associated with the target subscriber indicate that the target subscriber meets all requirements for receiving the alert notification; and
transmitting the alert notification to the target subscriber to cause the client application currently operating in the background of the client device of the target subscriber to perform the action in response to the notification server determining that the one or more filter parameters associated with the target subscriber indicate that the target subscriber meets all the requirements for receiving the alert notification.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, by the notification server, filter data from the target subscriber prior to receiving the alert notification; and
storing, in the notification server, the filter data as the one or more filter parameters.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein transmitting the alert notification to the target subscriber to cause the client application currently operating in the background of the client device of the target subscriber to perform the action comprises sending the alert notification as a broadcast notification to the target subscriber and at least one other subscriber in the identified one or more subscribers.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein transmitting the alert notification to the target subscriber to cause the client application currently operating in the background of the client device of the target subscriber to perform the action comprises sending the alert notification as a point-to-point notification to the target subscriber.

5. A notification server, comprising:
a memory; and
a processor connected to the memory, wherein the processor is configured with processor executable instructions to perform operations comprising:
receiving from an alert provider an alert notification that includes triggering information configured to cause a client application operating in a background of a client device of a target subscriber to perform an action;
determining whether the alert notification includes a subscriber eligibility rule;
identifying one or more subscribers registered to receive the alert notification based on provider rules stored at the notification server in response to determining that the alert notification does not include the subscriber eligibility rule;
identifying the one or more subscribers registered to receive the alert notification based on the subscriber eligibility rule included in the received alert notification in response to determining that the alert notification includes the subscriber eligibility rule, the identified one or more subscribers including the target subscriber;
determining whether one or more filter parameters associated with the target subscriber indicate that the target subscriber meets all requirements for receiving the alert notification; and
transmitting the alert notification to the target subscriber to cause the client application currently operating in the background of the client device of the target subscriber to perform the action in response to the notification server determining that the one or more filter parameters associated with the target subscriber indicate that the target subscriber meets all the requirements for receiving the alert notification.

6. The notification server of claim 5 , wherein the processor is configured with processor executable instructions to perform operations further comprising:
receiving filter data from the target subscriber prior to receiving the alert notification; and
storing the filter data as the one or more filter parameters in the memory.

7. The notification server of claim 5 , wherein the processor is configured with processor executable instructions to perform operations such that transmitting the alert notification to the target subscriber to cause the client application currently operating in the background of the client device of the target subscriber to perform the action comprises sending the alert notification as a broadcast notification to the target subscriber and at least one other subscriber in the identified one or more subscribers.

8. The notification server of claim 5 , wherein the processor is configured with processor executable instructions to perform operations such that transmitting the alert notification to the target subscriber to cause the client application currently operating in the background of the client device of the target subscriber to perform the action comprises sending the alert notification as a point-to-point notification to the target subscriber.

9. A non-transitory processor readable medium having stored thereon processor executable instructions configured to cause a processor of a notification server to perform operations comprising:
receiving from an alert provider an alert notification that includes triggering information configured to cause a client application operating in a background of a client device of a target subscriber to perform an action;
determining whether the alert notification includes a subscriber eligibility rule;
identifying one or more subscribers registered to receive the alert notification based on provider rules stored at the notification server in response to determining that the alert notification does not include the subscriber eligibility rule;
identifying the one or more subscribers registered to receive the alert notification based on the subscriber eligibility rule included in the received alert notification in response to determining that the alert notification includes the subscriber eligibility rule, the identified one or more subscribers including the target subscriber
determining whether one or more filter parameters associated with the target subscriber indicate that the target subscriber meets all requirements for receiving the alert notification; and
transmitting the alert notification to the target subscriber to cause the client application currently operating in the background of the client device of the target subscriber to perform the action in response to the notification server determining that the one or more filter parameters associated with the target subscriber indicate that the target subscriber meets all the requirements for receiving the alert notification.

10. The non-transitory processor readable medium of claim 9 , wherein the stored processor executable instructions are configured to cause the processor to perform operations further comprising:
receiving filter data from the target subscriber prior to receiving the alert notification; and
storing the filter data

Assignees

• Time Warner Cable Entpr Llc

Inventors

• Kumar Naresh

Classifications

• H04L67/55 Primary

  Push-based network services · CPC title

• H04L63/0815 Primary

  providing single-sign-on or federations · CPC title

• H04W12/06

  Authentication · CPC title

• H04L67/26 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic