Aggregating and Delivering Information

• US 20090089380A1
• Filed: 09/28/2007
• Published: 04/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Chandrasekhar, Padmini, Wang, Qiang, Wei, Min, Pandian, Agnita, Kay, Jeffrey Brian
• Application Number:
  US11/863,572
• Publication Number:
  US 20090089380A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

Embodiments are provided which include functionality to manage and control a provision of information to end users. In an embodiment, components of a system can be configured to manage and control a delivery of web feed information through an information pipeline. In one embodiment, components of a system can be configured to manage and control a delivery of subscription content and other information associated with a number of subscriptions to user email applications. A framework can be configured to use one or more serving components when managing and controlling the delivery of subscription content to end users. Other embodiments and functionality are available.

Claims

1. A system configured to manage a provisioning of information, the system comprising:

a server comprising;

a subscription component configured to use subscription information associated with a number of subscriptions;

an aggregation component configured to aggregate the number of subscriptions, wherein the aggregation component is configured to retrieve subscription content associated with the number of subscriptions and further includes a number of handlers configured to manage a number of subscription types, wherein each handler can be configured to map from a subscription format to a message representation; and

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a store to store the number of subscriptions and subscription information.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein each handler is further configured to map from the subscription format to all email representation by mapping subscription items to parts of the email representation.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising an email server and a hub server, wherein the email server and hub server are configured to manage and control the deliver of the web feed items based in part on a number of defined delivery rules to manage the delivery of the web feed items.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a rule component including a number of rules that can be configured to apply a messaging policy when controlling a delivery of the subscription content.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising an email communication pipeline, wherein the system further includes a number of rules which can be configured to control a delivery of subscription content communicated through the email communication pipeline.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein one or more of the number of rules can be configured to apply a messaging policy when controlling the deliver;

of the subscription content.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the number of rules can be configured to filter feed items by directing specific feed items to designated user inboxes.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the number of rules include a set of associated conditions, exceptions, and actions.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the set of conditions identify messages to which an action can be applied, exceptions identify the messages to which an action should not be applied, and an action can be used to affect the deliver, of the messages.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the aggregation component is further configured to aggregate and deliver email items from alternative email stores, calendar information, and contact information to an email inbox.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the aggregation component is further configured to deliver syndicated content to a number of email inboxes.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the subscription component is further configured to remove duplicate subscription information to maintain a unique set of subscription information.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the subscription component is further configured to monitor user mailboxes when locating subscriptions and monitoring subscription changes such that the aggregation component can use a unique set of subscription information when aggregating subscription items.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the aggregation component can operate to retrieve linked subscription content associated with the subscriptions, thereby enabling a user to interact with the linked subscription content while in an offline mode.

15. A system configured to manage a delivery, of information comprising:

first serving component for collecting information associated with a number of web feed items, wherein the first serving component includes a number or rules that can be configured to control the delivery of the web feed items based at least in part on a number of conditions, exceptions, and actions; and

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second serving component for aggregating the number of web feed items and retrieving content associated with the number of web feed items, wherein the second serving component is further configured to convert from a web feed format to an email representation.

16. The system of claim 15, further comprising an email server for retrieving subscription information associated with the number of web feed items and a hub server for aggregating and converting the subscription information and the number of web feed items, wherein the email server and hub server are configured to manage and control the delivery of the web feed items based in part on the number of rules, wherein the number of rules can be configured to control the delivery of the web feed items to one or more email inboxes.

17. A method of managing a communication of information comprising:

retrieving information associated with a number of user subscriptions, wherein the number of user subscriptions is associated with subscription content;

collecting the information associated with the number of subscriptions including the subscription content;

converting the subscription content to a message representation; and

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controlling a deliver of the subscription content using one or more messaging rules, wherein the one or more messaging rules can be used to distribute the subscription content to a user in accordance with the message representation.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising removing duplicate information associated with the number of user subscriptions, including duplicate web feed items.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising balancing a subscription load based at least in part on a shared state determination.

20. The method of claim 17, further comprising retrieving linked content associated with the subscription content to enable interaction with the linked content while in an offline mode.