US 12,395,569 B2
Providing local push notifications for crew members of a mass transportation vehicle
Brian George Plattenburg, Decatur, GA (US); Brian Ashley Still, Melbourne, FL (US); and Howard Ramon Vining, Atlanta, GA (US)
Assigned to DELTA AIR LINES, INC., Atlanta, GA (US)
Filed by Delta Air Lines, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US)
Filed on Feb. 22, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/584,280.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/503,987, filed on May 24, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0396978 A1, Nov. 28, 2024
Int. Cl. H04L 67/55 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 67/55 (2022.05) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
detecting, by a wireless device operated by a travel crew member, a trigger indicating that the wireless device is to connect to a wireless communication system of a vehicle and is to attempt to register for local push notifications for a duration of travel involving the vehicle;
obtaining, by the wireless device upon connection to the wireless communication system of the vehicle, vehicle travel information that identifies the duration of travel involving the vehicle;
identifying, by the wireless device and based on the vehicle travel information, whether one or more local push notifications are to be received by the wireless device for the duration of travel involving the vehicle, wherein the identifying includes comparing the vehicle travel information that identifies the duration of travel involving the vehicle with travel assignment information that identifies durations of travel for a plurality of vehicles to which the travel crew member is assigned; and
based on determining that one or more local push notifications are to be received by the wireless device for the duration of travel involving the vehicle, registering, by the wireless device, with a notification server of the vehicle to receive the one or more local push notifications for the duration of travel involving the vehicle, wherein the one or more local push notifications that are to be received by the wireless device for the duration of travel involving the vehicle are based on a role of the travel crew member for the duration of travel involving the vehicle and are based on one or more locations of a cabin of the vehicle to which the travel crew member is assigned to perform passenger services for the duration of travel involving the vehicle.