US 8,572,263 B1Granted

Push gateway systems and methods

AssigneeUrban Airship, Inc.

InventorsAdam C Lowry, Jared J Kuolt, Steven L Osborn, II

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Abstract

A push gateway includes a number of socket servers, a queue server, and arbiter serving, a mapping server and a number of worker servers. Each of the socket servers and the arbiter server includes a network interface. The queue server is coupled to the socket servers for bidirectional communication with the socket servers. The mapping server is coupled to the arbiter server and to the socket servers for bidirectional communication with the arbiter server and each of the socket servers. The worker servers are coupled to the queue server and the mapping server. The arbiter server is configured to facilitate communications over a network with the worker servers by at least partially balancing loads on the number of socket servers based, at least in part, upon the mapping server.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A system for operating a push gateway comprising:

a processor configured to:
develop a map of potential connections to the push gateway, wherein the map of potential connections is developed based at least in part on status information associated with one or more socket servers configured to maintain one or more socket connections;
store the developed map of potential connections;
derive a list of socket connections based at least in part on the developed map of potential connections;
receive a device identifier associated with a mobile device;
determine whether the mobile device associated with the device identifier has been registered based at least in part on the received device identifier;
send a secure ID to the mobile device in the event that the device was determined to have not been registered;
verify a secure ID of the mobile device in the event that the mobile device was determined to have been registered;
provide the derived list of socket connections to the mobile device in the event that the secure ID of the mobile device was verified;
and
push at least one message to the mobile device via a socket connection derived at least in part from the list of socket connections;
and
a memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions.

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