Personalized Aggregated Activity Feed

• US 20180121849A1
• Filed: 05/25/2017
• Published: 05/03/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Torres, Melissa, DeMaris, John, Longhurst, Janet, Wu, Yimin, Mazner, Jeremy, Meyerzon, Dmitriy, Buelich, II, Nicholas Anthony, Voronkov, Nikita, Ford, Adam
• Granted Patent: US 10,540,620 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06313 Resource planning in a project environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

In one example, an activity feed server may describe events in a project by collecting events from across multiple services into an activity feed personalized to the user. The activity feed server may store an event set describing activities related to the project. The activity feed server may rank a mature event set from the event set of events older than a period matching a processing delay based on a relevance weighting for a user to generate a curated event list. The activity feed server may queue a recent event set of events younger than the processing delay in chronological order to generate a recent event list. The activity feed server may generate an event list having the curated event list and the recent event list. The activity feed server may send the activity feed having the event list to a client device for presentation to the user.

Claims

1. An activity feed server, comprising:

memory configured to store an event set describing activities related to a project;

a processing core having at least one processor configured to

rank a mature event set from the event set of events older than a period matching a processing delay based on a relevance weighting for a user to generate a curated event list,

queue a recent event set of events younger than the processing delay in chronological order to generate a recent event list, and

generate an event list having the curated event list and the recent event list; and

a communication interface configured to send the activity feed having the event list to a client device for presentation to the user.

2. The activity feed server of claim 1, wherein the processing core is configured to match a group identifier for the project in a virtual collaboration space to an associated group identifier for the project in an associated network service.

3. The activity feed server of claim 1, wherein the communication interface is configured to retrieve an associated event set from an associated network service for addition to the event set.

4. The activity feed server of claim 1, wherein the processing core is configured to add an associated event set from an associated network service to the event list prior to ranking.

5. The activity feed server of claim 1, wherein the processing core is configured to categorize an event into an event subject based on an event type for an associated file.

6. The activity feed server of claim 1, wherein the processing core is configured to apply an event weight to an event based on an event subject.

7. The activity feed server of claim 1, wherein the processing core is configured to assign a focus weight to an associated file based on a user interaction with the associated file.

8. The activity feed server of claim 1, wherein the processing core is configured to factor at least one of an event weight and a focus weight for an event in to ranking the curated event set.

9. The activity feed server of claim 1, wherein the processing core is configured to age a curated event out of the curated event list.

10. The activity feed server of claim 1, wherein the processing core is configured to adjust a position of a curated event in the curated event list in relation to a recent event on the recent event list based on a predicted interaction likelihood.

11. The activity feed server of claim 1, wherein the processing core is configured to promote a curated event having an event weight over a promotion threshold above the recent event list in the event list.

12. The activity feed server of claim 1, wherein the processing core is configured to remove a curated event from the curated event set if the curated event matches a recent event.

13. A computing device, having a memory to store a series of instructions that are executed by at least one processor to implement an activity feed listing events describing activities related to a project, the computing device configured to

maintain the activity feed based on a virtual collaboration space for the project for access by the user;

collect a collaboration space event set from the virtual collaboration space for an event set related to the project;

identify an associated network service used in support of the project;

retrieve an associated event set from the associated network service;

add the associated event set to the event set;

rank the event set based on a relevance weighting for the user to generate an event list;

send the activity feed having the event list to a client device for presentation to the user.

14. The computing device of claim 13, wherein the computing device is further configured to

generate an event based on a file at the virtual collaboration space.

15. The computing device of claim 13, wherein the computing device is further configured to

maintain a user profile describing a user position within the project.

16. The computing device of claim 13, wherein the computing device is further configured to

associate the project with a group identifier.

17. The computing device of claim 13, wherein the computing device is further configured to

match a group identifier for the project in the virtual collaboration space to an associated group identifier for the project in an associated network service.

18. The computing device of claim 13, wherein the computing device is further configured to

rank a mature event set from the event set of events older than a period matching a processing delay based on the relevance weighting for the user to generate a curated event list as part of the event list.

19. A machine-implemented method, comprising:

maintaining, for a virtual collaboration space for a project, an activity feed listing events describing activities related to the project for access by a user;

collecting an event set related to the project;

ranking a mature event set from the event set of events older than a period matching a processing delay based on a relevance weighting for the user to generate a curated event list;

queuing a recent event set of events younger than the processing delay in chronological order to generate a recent event list;

combining the curated event list and the recent event list into an event list; and

sending the activity feed having the event list to a client device for presentation to the user.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

matching a group identifier for the project in the virtual collaboration space to an associated group identifier for the project in an associated network service;

retrieving an associated event set from the associated network service for addition to the event set; and

adding the associated event set from the associated network service to the event list prior to ranking.