Method and system for pushing asynchronous notifications to networked devices

摘要

A method and system for pushing asynchronous notifications to devices in a network including client devices and server devices. A connection is established between a client device and a server device, wherein the client device sends a request for data to the server device, the server device includes a notification tag in a reply to the request from the client device for the client device to maintain the connection to the server device to await notifications from the server device, the client device receives the reply from the server device and checks for a notification tag in the reply such that if the reply includes a notification tag the client device maintains the connection to the server device to send notifications to the client device via the connection.