Schemas for a notification platform and related information services
First Claim
1. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon a data structure, comprising:
- a notification regularized according to a notification schema, the notification including;
a first set of data comprising notification identification information;
a second set of data comprising notification content; and
a third set of data comprising requirements for sending the notification to a client;
and wherein a notification service receives the notification and analyzes the third set of data against client-related criteria to determine conditions for sending the notification to the client.
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Abstract
Described is a schema-based notification platform that provides regularized notification handling including user control and normalization of the operation of policies across different information types and contexts. Information-service schemas and services are combined to build a content-sensitive and context-sensitive information service to communicate information to recipient devices of users that subscribe to those services. An information agent service collects the information, and based on various criteria, determines if, when, and how to send and render the information, and to which subscribing client device or devices. The set of schemas include a notification schema that represents the subscription of a service to an information source and details about that information, and a device schema that represents information about user devices. The information agent service accesses criteria including user preferences and user contextual information, including presence information, location information, and schedule information along with people and groups data and extended-context data. Preferences about subscriptions and information handling policies may be stored and used at notification sources or in more central preference encodings. Access to multiple preferences is maintained, and a user interface is provided that allows users to inspect and control multiple subscriptions in one conceptual place.
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19 Claims
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1. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon a data structure, comprising:
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a notification regularized according to a notification schema, the notification including;
a first set of data comprising notification identification information;
a second set of data comprising notification content; and
a third set of data comprising requirements for sending the notification to a client;
and wherein a notification service receives the notification and analyzes the third set of data against client-related criteria to determine conditions for sending the notification to the client. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon a data structure, comprising:
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a notification regularized according to a notification schema, the notification including;
a first set of data comprising notification content;
a second set of data comprising requirements for sending the notification to a client; and
a third set of data comprising notification volatility information;
and wherein a notification service receives the notification and analyzes the second set of data against client-related criteria to determine conditions for sending the notification to the client, and if the notification can presently meet the conditions, the notification is sent to the client, and if the notification cannot meet the conditions but can meet the conditions later, the notification is maintained until sent when the conditions are met or until the volatility information expires the notification. - View Dependent Claims (19)
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