Nokia Technologies Oy

Tommi Heinonen

Tuomas Veli Keskitalo

Ari Aarnio

An approach is provided for managing polling interval and activity time for communicating notifications from a server to a device. A notification server may cause a configuration of at least one polling interval and at least one activity time for communicating one or more notifications from at least one notification server to at least one device. Further, the notification server may cause a transmission of the at least one polling interval and the at least one activity time to the at least one device, wherein the polling interval specifies at least one offline time for the at least one device with respect to the at least one notification server, and wherein the activity time specifies at least one online time for the at least one device with respect to the at least one notification server.

Method and apparatus for providing a dynamic polling notification system

There are disclosed various methods and apparatuses notification service. In some embodiments the method comprises receiving an indication from a client device, which indication relates to a location; creating a subscription between the client and the location owner of said location being selected, and based on the subscription, transmitting notifications relating to the location to the client device. In some other embodiments, the method comprises selecting a location by an apparatus; transmitting an indication relating to said location to a server to have a subscription with a location owner of said location; based on the subscription, receiving notifications from the location owner.

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Tampere, Finland

Tommi Heinonen