Pull notifications for applications

US12143677B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• HULU, LLC · US

Inventors

• Josh Stratton · Issaquah, US
• Tiffany Jiang · White Plains, US
• Elise Wang · Cerritos, US
• Ariela Ninka · Santa Monica, US
• Mingkui Liu · Beijing, CN
• Zhuofeng Wu · Los Angeles, US
• Suneeta Puranik · Los Angeles, US
• Andres Montano · Seattle, US
• Austin Wignall · Los Angeles, US
• Jillian Abeyta · Los Angeles, US
• Josh Nelson · Atlanta, US
• Andrew Salituri · Seattle, US
• Dominic Hopton · Kirkland, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 10, 2022
• Grant date: Nov 12, 2024
• Expiry date: Aug 10, 2042

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04N21/812
• WIPO field: Audio-visual technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

In some embodiments, a method selects an account associated with an application that is displaying content. A plurality of contact options is retrieved where the contact options in the plurality of contact options are able to receive pull notifications for the account. The method ranks the plurality of contact options based on information associated with the account and generates a plurality of pull notification options using the ranking of the plurality of contact options. The plurality of pull notification options is output to the application for display on the application. A pull notification option in the plurality of pull notification options is associated with information to cause an associated contact option to be contacted upon selection of the pull notification option.