Patent ID: 9509857
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: G06N,G06Q,H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method to notify mobile devices via push notification, comprising: collecting, by one or more computing devices, mobile device application usage history of a first mobile device across a plurality of mobile device applications installed on the first mobile device; receiving, by the one or more computing devices from the first mobile device, a mobile device application usage trigger event; for each of a plurality of candidate push notifications, determining by the one or more computing devices, a quality score adjustment as a function of the collected mobile device application usage history and the trigger event wherein a candidate push notification of an application having usage sooner in the usage history after a trigger event receives a more favorable quality score adjustment than a candidate push notification of an application having usage later in the usage history after a trigger event; auctioning, by the one or more computing devices, among the plurality of candidate push notifications, an opportunity to push a notification to the first mobile device based on the adjusted quality scores; and pushing, by the one or more computing devices, the notification of the auction winner to the first mobile device.