Jennifer L Swift

US Patent:

20160277909, Sep 22, 2016

Filed:

Mar 20, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/663996

Inventors:

- Atlanta GA, US
Kathy X. Liao - Bellevue WA, US
Michael D. Stice - Atlanta GA, US
Jennifer S. Swift - Redmond WA, US
Jim Forbes - Kirkland WA, US
David Craig - Winston GA, US
Saritha Bandi - Alpharetta GA, US

International Classification:

H04W 4/20
H04W 68/02

Abstract:

A gateway device is enabled to initiate sending of push notifications to an associated device. The push notifications can be sent even when a gateway device related application is not running on the device. The push notifications can also be sent to the device whenever it has internet connectivity, even if the internet connectivity is not being provided by the gateway device hotspot. In an embodiment, a mobile access gateway system can receive a notification from the gateway device that is directed to another device. The mobile access gateway system can determine whether or not the gateway device and the other device are related to each other and then instruct a push notification server to send the device a push notification.