TECHNIQUES TO CONTROL NOTIFICATIONS FOR CONTENT ITEMS IN A COLLABORATION PLATFORM

• US 20170285896A1
• Filed: 04/01/2016
• Published: 10/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Chandra, Omeed, Fang, Ginger Elizabeth
• Granted Patent: US 10,775,972 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/30 Semantic analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4015 where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference

Abstract

Techniques to control notifications for a collaboration platform. Content items being stored in the collaboration platform are shared amongst devices coupled to the collaboration platform. To determine whether to subscribe to notifications corresponding to a content item, a notification component of the collaboration platform examines the content item for characteristics of an indirect relationship between the shared content item and a user of a device of the devices. If the indirect relationship exists and warrants a subscription to the notifications, the notification component stores subscription data for the content item and in response to an occurrence of a subscribed activity, the notification component communicates a notification message to the user'"'"'s device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a logic circuit; and

logic operative on the logic circuit to identify an indirect relationship between a content item and a user of a device, and store subscription data for the shared content item based upon the indirect relationship, the subscription data corresponding to communicating a notification message to the device in response to an activity corresponding to the shared content item.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, the logic further operative to process a content item being shared amongst a plurality of devices.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, the logic further operative to identify user behavior indicia associated with other content items.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, the logic further operative to communicate to the device a notification corresponding to a change to the content item.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, the logic further operative to modify the subscription data to remove or change a subscription to the content item.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, the logic further operative to identify a relationship between the user and an author of the content item.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, the logic further operative to compare the content item to another content item according to a semantic similarity metric.

8. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

processing a content item being shared amongst a plurality of devices;

identifying an indirect relationship between the shared content item and a user of a device of the plurality of devices; and

storing subscription data for the shared content item based upon the indirect relationship, the subscription data corresponding to communicating a notification message to the device in response to an activity corresponding to the shared content item.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 further comprising identifying user behavior indicia associated with other content items.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 further comprising communicating to the device a notification message corresponding to a change to the shared content item.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 further comprising modifying the subscription status to remove or change a subscription to the shared content item.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 further comprising identifying a relationship between a user and an author of the shared content item.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 further comprising comparing the shared content item to another shared content item according to a semantic similarity metric.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 further comprising modifying the subscription data in response to input communicated from the device.

15. At least one computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a system to:

process a content item being shared amongst a plurality of devices;

identify an indirect relationship between the shared content item and a user of a device of the plurality of devices; and

store subscription data for the shared content item based upon the indirect relationship, the subscription data corresponding to communicating a notification message to the device in response to an activity corresponding to the shared content item.

16. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, comprising instructions that when executed cause the system to:

identify user behavior indicia associated with other content items.

17. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, comprising instructions that when executed cause the system to:

communicate to the device a notification message corresponding to a change to the shared content item.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, comprising instructions that when executed cause the system to:

modify the subscription status to remove or change a subscription to the shared content item.

19. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, comprising instructions that when executed cause the system to:

identify a relationship between a user and an author of the shared content item.

20. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, comprising instructions that when executed cause the system to:

compare the shared content item to another shared content item according to a semantic similarity metric.