US 11,153,725 B2Granted

Method and system for sending bulk notifications

AssigneeNaver Corporation

InventorsTaekwan Kwon, Jungyoung Park, Seungmin Park

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Abstract

A bulk notification sending method includes, in response to sending a notification for providing content through a plurality of channels, retrieving subscribers of the channels connected to the content from a sending target database including information about subscribers for each channel; in response to a retrieved subscriber being a subscriber of a first channel among the channels, storing an identification value of the retrieved subscriber in each of a first storage for storing a sending target and a second storage for a redundancy removal and processing sending of a notification to the retrieved subscriber; and in response to the retrieved subscriber not being the subscriber of the first channel, retrieving the identification value of the retrieved subscriber from the second storage and determining whether to send the notification to the retrieved subscriber depending on whether the identification value of the retrieved subscriber is stored in the second storage.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A bulk notification sending method of a computer apparatus comprising at least one processor, the method comprising:

by the at least one processor,
in response to sending a notification for providing content through a plurality of content delivery channels, retrieving subscribers of the plurality of content delivery channels connected to the content from a sending target database comprising information about subscribers for each content delivery channel;
in response to a first retrieved subscriber being identified as a subscriber of a first content delivery channel among the plurality of content delivery channels, immediately sending, through the first content delivery channel, the notification to the first retrieved subscriber of the first content delivery channel, and storing an identification value of the first retrieved subscriber in each of a first storage for storing a sending target and a second storage for a redundancy removal;
and
in response to a second retrieved subscriber not being the subscriber of the first content delivery channel, determining to skip sending of the notification to the second retrieved subscriber in response to the identification value of the second retrieved subscriber being stored in the second storage, and determining to send the notification to the second retrieved subscriber in response to the identification value of the second retrieved subscriber not being stored in the second storage.

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A computer apparatus comprising:

at least one processor configured to execute computer-readable instructions,
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to,
in response to sending a notification for providing content through a plurality of content delivery channels, retrieve subscribers of the plurality of content delivery channels connected to the content from a sending target database comprising information about subscribers for each content delivery channel;
in response to a first retrieved subscriber being identified as a subscriber of a first content delivery channel among the plurality of content delivery channels, immediately sending, through the first content delivery channel, the notification to the first retrieved subscriber of the first content delivery channel, and store an identification value of the first retrieved subscriber in a first storage for storing a sending target and a second storage for a redundancy removal;
and
in response to a second retrieved subscriber not being the subscriber of the first content delivery channel, skip sending of the notification to the second retrieved subscriber in response to the identification value of the retrieved second subscriber being stored in the second storage, and send the notification to the second retrieved subscriber in response to the identification value of the retrieved second subscriber not being stored in the second storage.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/796,357Filed 20 Feb 2020
Priority: KR 10-2019-012840116 Oct 2019
Published: US 2021/0120378 A122 Apr 2021
Granted: 19 Oct 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

H04W 4/08
Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective…:…
H04W 76/40
Connection management: for selective distribution or broadcast
H04L 65/611
For supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio: for multicast or broadcast
H04L 67/55
Network services: push-based network services