Push Notification Service Verification Gateway

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Solution Overview

Problem

Pushing information to mobile nodes can disrupt services currently running on the device, as existing methods do not effectively determine whether the incoming content is associated with the same service, leading to potential conflicts and disruptions.

Innovation Solution

An apparatus and method that determine whether incoming content is associated with the same service as content already running on the node, preventing transmission if they are not, thereby reducing the likelihood of service conflicts and enhancing user privacy by minimizing the disclosure of the current service.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of energy

If information is pushed to mobile nodes without service verification, then bandwidth efficiency is improved, but service conflict and disruption risk increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebandwidth efficiencyVSAvoidservice conflict risk
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of energyVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by verifying service compatibility before pushing content. The processing stage checks whether the incoming content is associated with the same service as content currently rendered at the node, and only transmits the content if the verification succeeds. This prevents service conflicts while maintaining push efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If service verification is performed before content transmission, then service conflict risk is reduced, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice conflict preventionVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies universality by integrating the service verification function into the existing content transmission processing stage. The same processing stage that handles content transmission also performs service compatibility verification, eliminating the need for separate verification hardware or software modules and minimizing system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Reliability

If service information is disclosed to verify content association, then service conflict prevention is improved, but user privacy is compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice conflict preventionVSAvoiduser privacy
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by performing service verification in a distributed manner where each node independently determines whether incoming content is associated with its currently rendered service. This eliminates the need to disclose service information to external entities, protecting user privacy while still enabling conflict prevention.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentEP2628290B1Transmitting information
Publication Date: 2023.09.20 INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS SAS
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AI summary

The present invention relates to the transmission of push information to a handset. Before pushing a page to the handset, it is checked that the page belongs to the same service as the page currently display. If the page to be pushed belongs to a different service, it is not pushed. The risk of disruption to the original service is thereby reduced. Checking is preferably done by a gateway to which the handset is connected. The gateway can store details of the page last transmitted to the handset in order to facilitate the check.