ACTIVITY FEED SERVICE

• US 20180302302A1
• Filed: 05/09/2017
• Published: 10/18/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Doggett, Chani A., Meyers, Brian R., Gallardo, John E., Gbadegesin, Abolade, Novak, Michael J., Yao, Yisheng, Paliswiat, Bartosz H., Tatapudi, Kiran, Hamilton, Colleen E., Henry, Shawn P., Tubbs, Kenneth M., Srinivasan, Sriram, Arslan, Mahmut
• Granted Patent: US 10,693,748 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3438 monitoring of user actions tracking the activity of the user H04L67/535
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0856 by backing up or archiving configuration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

Technology related to an activity feed service is disclosed. In one example of the disclosed technology, a method can include receiving updates to activity streams, where a respective activity stream indicates an engagement of a respective user with applications executing on a respective client device connected to a network. The different activity streams associated with a particular user can be merged to generate a merged activity stream associated with the particular user. The different received activity streams can correspond to different respective client devices. The merged activity stream associated with the particular user can be transmitted over the network.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a first activity stream associated with a particular user, the first activity stream indicating engagement of the user with a first application executing on a first platform;

receiving a second activity stream associated with the particular user, the second activity stream indicating engagement of the user with a second application executing on a second platform;

merging the first activity stream and the second activity stream to generate a merged activity stream associated with the particular user; and

transmitting the merged activity stream associated with the particular user to the first platform.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein merging the first activity stream and the second activity stream comprises:

identifying a common activity in the first activity stream and the second activity stream; and

combining a first record from the first activity stream corresponding to the common activity and a second record from the second activity stream corresponding to the common activity into a third record of the merged activity stream.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the merged activity stream is transmitted to all devices identified in a device graph associated with the particular user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the merged activity stream is transmitted to the first platform in response to receiving an update to the second activity stream.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the merged activity stream; and

transmitting the merged activity stream to a third platform in response to a synchronization request from the third platform.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving information related to the engagement of the particular user with the first application from a backing service associated with the first application; and

using the received information to augment the merged activity stream before transmitting the merged activity stream to the first platform.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining an applicability of activities of the second activity stream with regards to the first platform, and wherein merging the first activity stream and the second activity stream comprises removing activities from the second activity stream that are not applicable to the first platform.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the applicability of the activities of the second activity stream with regards to the first platform is based on a first location associated with the first platform and locations associated with respective activities of the second activity stream.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the applicability of the activities of the second activity stream with regards to the first platform is based on whether a build of the second application is available for the first platform.

10. A method comprising:

transmitting a local activity stream associated with a particular user, the local activity stream indicating engagement of the user with a first application executing on a first platform; and

receiving a merged activity stream associated with the particular user, the merged activity stream indicating engagement of the user with a second application executing on a second platform and the first application executing on the first platform.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving a selection of an activity from the merged activity stream to restore on the first platform; and

restoring the activity from the merged activity stream on the first platform.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the selected activity from the merged activity stream corresponds to the second application executing on the second platform, and restoring the selected activity on the first platform comprises executing a build of the second application targeted to the first platform.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein restoring the selected activity on the first platform comprises installing the build of the second application targeted to the first platform on the first platform.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

generating the local activity stream, and wherein generating the local activity stream comprises condensing local activities associated with the particular user before transmitting the local activity stream.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein receiving the merged activity stream is in response to the first platform transitioning from a lower power state to a higher power state.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein receiving the merged activity stream is in response to the particular user engaging with the second application executing on the second platform.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein transmitting the local activity stream is in response to updating a record of the local activity stream based on engagement of the user with the first application.

18. An activity feed server computer comprising:

a network interface configured to communicate over a network; and

a processor in communication with the network interface, the processor configured to;

receive updates to activity streams from the network interface, wherein a respective activity stream indicates an engagement of a respective user with applications executing on a respective client device connected to the network;

merge different activity streams associated with a particular user to generate a merged activity stream associated with the particular user, the different received activity streams corresponding to different respective client devices; and

transmit the merged activity stream associated with the particular user to the network interface for communication over the network.

19. The activity feed server computer of claim 18, wherein merging the different activity streams comprises:

identifying a common activity among the different activity streams; and

combining records from the different activity streams corresponding to the common activity into a merged record of the merged activity stream.

20. The activity feed server computer of claim 18, wherein the merged activity stream is transmitted to a first client device associated with the particular user in response to an update to an activity stream associated with a different client device associated with the particular user.