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Web based client/server notification engine

  • US 8,015,152 B2
  • Filed: 01/24/2006
  • Issued: 09/06/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for improving client-side content updates comprising:

  • sending a registration from a client-side notification engine of a communications application to a web server with a central notification engine to register for update notifications;

    at a particular time interval, sending a polling request from the client-side notification engine to the central notification engine for polling whether the central notification engine has one or more update notifications identified with the registration from the client-side notification engine;

    when the central notification engine has one or more notifications to report, receiving a notification response from the central notification engine wherein the notification response is an aggregation of updates from a first data store and a second data store, the updates comprising two or more of the following;

    email, calendar, contacts, notes, or tasks;

    when the central notification engine has no notifications to report, receiving a notification response from the central notification engine indicating that no updates have occurred.

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