Patent ID: 9026581
Filing Date: 2015-05-05
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. In a mobile device, a method of interacting with a first social networking website and a second social networking website by way of a network, the method comprising: (a) communicating indirectly with the first social networking website by interacting with an intermediate web server by way of the network, the intermediate web server in turn being in communication with the first social networking website; (b) receiving, from the intermediate web server, notifications and first information, wherein the mobile device receives at least some of the notifications in an asynchronous manner off of the network via a push channel from the intermediate web server at times determined by the intermediate web server, and wherein the mobile device receives the first information following a pull request; (c) communicating indirectly with a second social networking website also by interacting with the intermediate web server by way of the network, the intermediate web server in turn being in communication with the second social networking website, wherein the mobile device receives the first information from the first social networking website by way of the intermediate web server; (d) displaying on the mobile device each of the first and second information in a format that is standardized and excludes at least some formatting information that would be present if the mobile device had received the first and second information based upon communications with the first and second social networking websites directly in a manner not involving the intermediate web server; (e) determining, based at least in part upon a user input received at the mobile device, that the mobile device should communicate directly with the first social networking website in a manner not involving the intermediate web server; and (f) communicating with the first social networking website directly in the manner not involving the intermediate web server.