Query-based notification architecture

• US 20060206532A1
• Filed: 03/14/2005
• Published: 09/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: MacLaurin, Matthew B.
• Granted Patent: US 7,747,556 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/302 where the computing system component is a software system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3079 the data filtering being achieved by reporting only the changes of the monitored data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/1734 Details of monitoring file system events, e.g. by the use of hooks, filter drivers, logs
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching

Abstract

A data repository monitoring system that utilizes queries to generate notifications in response to the identification of new and changed content. The system includes a monitoring component that monitors a plurality of disparate repositories in order to identify the receipt of new or modified content. The monitoring component includes a query component(s) that identifies metadata of imported content. The query can be generated and communicated to the monitoring component via a graphical user interface. A notification component is also provided to generate a prompt upon the receipt of incoming content as identified by the query component. The invention employs a centralized store (e.g., change queue) that maintains metadata corresponding to imported (e.g., new) metadata.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates tracking content of a plurality of repositories, the system comprising:

a monitoring component that monitors imported metadata that corresponds to content received into one of the plurality of repositories, the monitoring component employs the imported metadata to determine if a change occurs with respect to the content.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a query component that facilitates identifying the change with respect to the content; and

a notification component that generates an alert that prompts of the change.

3. The system of claim 2, further comprising a component that facilitates defining the query component.

4. A user interface that employs the system of claim 3.

5. The system of claim 2, further comprising a change queue component that maintains the imported metadata, the monitoring component interrogates the change queue component to obtain the imported metadata.

6. The system of claim 2, the alert is a visual alert.

7. The system of claim 2, the alert is an audible alert.

8. The system of claim 2, the monitoring component comprises a rule-based logic component that automatically defines the query component.

9. The system of claim 2, the monitoring component comprises an artificial intelligence component that predicts a user intention and defines the query component as a function of the user intention.

10. The system of claim 1, the monitoring component is located remotely from the plurality of disparate repositories.

11. A computer readable medium having stored thereon the components of claim 1.

12. A method of monitoring content in a plurality of disparate repositories, the method comprising:

defining a query that monitors one of the plurality of disparate repositories;

storing metadata that corresponds to new content;

rewriting the query to identify the metadata that corresponds to new content; and

generating a notification upon identification of the metadata.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising adding the query to a notification panel of a graphical user interface.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising designating the query as a standing query.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising storing the metadata in a change queue.

16. The method of claim 12, the act of defining the query further comprises employing at least one of rule-based logic and artificial intelligence to automatically define the query.

17. A system that facilitates identifying new content in a plurality of disparate repositories, the system comprising:

means for defining a query to monitor at least one of the plurality of disparate repositories;

means for extracting metadata from the new content received by the plurality of disparate repositories;

means for maintaining the metadata that corresponds to the new content;

means for rewriting the query to identify maintained metadata; and

means for prompting upon identification of the maintained metadata.

18. The system of claim 17, further comprising means for adding the query to a notification panel of a graphical user interface and means for designating the query as a standing query, the standing query continuously monitors the at least one of the plurality of disparate repositories.

19. The system of claim 18, further comprising means for automatically defining the query in accordance with a predefined rule.

20. The system of claim 18, further comprising means for automatically defining the query in accordance with a predicted user intention.