Techniques to manage event notifications

• US 20080222654A1
• Filed: 03/09/2007
• Published: 09/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Bansal, Anuj, Kapoor, Rahul, Salgado, Rolando Jimenez, Thatte, Satish, Xu, LiHui, Abel, Todd
• Granted Patent: US 8,793,704 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/318
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/544 Remote
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

Techniques to manage event notifications are described. An apparatus may comprise a server having an event notification component. The event notification component may have an event agent component to receive a message indicating a change event for line of business (LOB) data, and convert the change event to a defined LOB entity event. The event notification component may have a notification service component to generate a LOB event message for the entity event. The event notification component may have an event database to store the event message in a user event queue. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving a message indicating a change event for line of business data;

converting said change event to a defined line of business entity event;

sending said entity event to a line of business notification service;

generating a line of business event message for said entity event; and

storing said event message in a user event queue.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising notifying a client device of said entity event.

3. The method of claim 1, comprising sending said event message to a client device.

4. The method of claim 1, comprising receiving a request for event messages for a client device.

5. The method of claim 1, comprising sending said event message to a client device as an electronic mail message.

6. The method of claim 1, comprising creating an entity view instance in a client data store for said entity event.

7. The method of claim 1, comprising processing said line of business event message by an event handler for an application program.

8. An article comprising a storage medium containing instructions that if executed enable a system to:

receive a line of business message indicating a change event;

convert said line of business message to a standard line of business entity event;

send said entity event to a line of business notification service;

generate a line of business event message for said entity event; and

store said event message in a user event queue.

9. The article of claim 8, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to notify a client device of said entity event.

10. The article of claim 8, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to send said event message to a client device.

11. The article of claim 8, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to receive a request for event messages for a client device.

12. The article of claim 8, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to send said event message to a client device as an electronic mail message.

13. The article of claim 8, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to create an entity view instance in a client data store for said entity event.

14. The article of claim 8, further comprising instructions that if executed enable the system to process said line of business event message by an event handler for an application program.

15. An apparatus comprising a server having an event notification component, said event notification component having an event agent component to receive a message indicating a change event for line of business data and convert said change event to a defined line of business entity event, a notification service component to generate a line of business event message for said entity event, and an event database to store said event message in a user event queue.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, said notification service component to notify a client device of said entity event.

17. The apparatus of claim 15, said notification service component to send said event message to a client device in response to a request from said client device.

18. The apparatus of claim 15, said notification service component to send said event message to a client device as an electronic mail message.

19. The apparatus of claim 15, comprising an application program event handler to process said event message for an application program on a client device.

20. The apparatus of claim 15, comprising a database event handler to process said event message for a client data store for a client device.