US 9,438,700 B2 · System and method for servers to send alerts to connectionless devices

Abstract

A method of sending alerts from servers to client devices is provided. The alert can be generated with a server application and may include customer information. The alert may then be sent to a message router. The message router receives a station ID of the client device based on the customer information. A communication type of the client device can be determined based on the station ID and one or more of a plurality of protocol gateways can be selected based on the communication type. The alert can be forwarded to the selected one or more of the plurality of protocol gateways where it may be formatted for the selected client device. The formatted alert may then be forwarded via the network to the selected client device.

Claims36

Dependent claims

A method of sending a message to a client device, comprising:

retrieving, at a message router, identification information associated with a client device from client information, wherein said identification information includes a device address of said client device;
determining a communication type of said client device based on a size and content of said identification information;
selecting at least one protocol gateway based on said communication type;
and
forwarding said message to said selected at least one protocol gateway based on said communication type;
wherein said message is formatted by said selected at least one protocol gateway for transmission to said client device.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/735,235Filed 7 Jan 2013 · continuation

Priority

31 Jan 2000

Published

US 2013/0212195 A115 Aug 2013

Granted

6 Sep 2016

Term ends

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Classification6 codes

F02M 25/0809
Adding fuel vapours drawn from engine fuel reservoir: judging failure of purge control system
H04L 12/66
Data switching networks: arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
H04L 67/565
Provisioning of proxy services: conversion or adaptation of application format or content
H04L 67/63
Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and…: routing…

Family

Application09/494,553Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 31 Jan 2000

Application09/694,297Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 24 Oct 2000

Application09/723,285Parent of this continuation · filed 28 Nov 2000

US 2013/0212195 A1Pre-grant publication · published 15 Aug 2013

US 8,370,435 B1Parent of this continuation

Application09/723,285Parent of this continuation-in-part

US 9,438,700 B2This patent

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System and method for servers to send alerts to connectionless devices

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System and method for servers to send alerts to connectionless devices

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Abstract

Claims36