Query-Based Notification Architecture

• US 20100228778A1
• Filed: 05/21/2010
• Published: 09/09/2010
• 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 9,665,588 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/780
• 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

1-20. -20. (canceled)

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

a processor; and

a monitoring component operated by the processor to monitor imported metadata that corresponds to content received into one of the plurality of repositories, the monitoring component employing the imported metadata to determine if a change occurs with respect to the content.

22. The system of claim 21, 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.

23. The system of claim 22, further comprising a user interface including a notification panel that receives the alert from the notification component to indicate a change to a standing query to a user.

24. A user interface that employs the system of claim 23.

25. The system of claim 22, further comprising a change queue component that maintains the imported metadata, the monitoring component interrogates the change queue component to obtain the imported metadata.

26. The system of claim 22, the alert is a visual alert.

27. The system of claim 22, the alert is an audible alert.

28. The system of claim 22, the monitoring component comprises a rule-based logic component that automatically defines the query component.

29. The system of claim 22, 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.

30. The system of claim 21, the monitoring component is located remotely from the plurality of disparate repositories.

31. A computer readable medium having stored thereon the components of claim 21.

32. A computer-implemented method comprising:

defining a query that monitors one of a plurality of disparate repositories for metadata associated with new content, the query being defined based at least in part on a predicted user intention generated by artificial intelligence;

assigning a value that indicates a level of confidence that the artificial intelligence generated query is in accordance with the actual user intention based at least in part on an automatic classifier function that employs at least one of probabilistic, statistic, or regression based analysis;

storing metadata that corresponds to new content;

executing the query to identify the metadata; and

generating a notification upon identification of the metadata.

33. The method of claim 32, further comprising adding the query to a notification panel of a graphical user interface.

34. The method of claim 32, further comprising designating the query as a standing query.

35. The method of claim 34, further comprising storing the metadata in a change queue.

36. The method of claim 32, the act of defining the query further comprises employing at least one of rule-based logic, probabilistic, statistical, or regression based analysis to automatically define the query.

37. A computer-implemented method comprising:

providing a user interface that enables a user to define a query to monitor at least one of the plurality of disparate repositories; and

displaying via the user interface an indication that the query has been rewritten to identify maintained metadata that corresponds to new content, the new content having been received by the plurality of disparate repositories.

38. The method of claim 37, wherein the user interface displays the user-defined query via a notification panel, the notification panel providing controls for designating the user-defined query as a standing query for continuously monitoring the at least one of the plurality of disparate repositories.

39. The method of claim 38, wherein the query is automatically rewritten in accordance with a predefined rule.

40. The method of claim 38, wherein the query is automatically rewritten in accordance with a predicted user intention.