Enabling information push for network- and device-agnostic internet services

In a multi-network environment, users are able to consume services via several networks, protocols, and connected devices. These services are usually bound to their specific technology and often limited to a dedicated device or service provider domain. In this paper, we investigate information distribution via push versus the client-server-based request/response model against the background of a converged Internet and Telecoms service stratum on top of multiple access networks. In our approach, convergence is achieved by integrating multiple separated communication channels in the service layer on top of an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) based Telecom environment and by providing an Identity enabler for interactions of the platform with 3^rd parties. We propose a service architecture enabling information sharing and push notifications via an abstract RESTful API for multiple communication channels.