Event forwarding

• US 8,150,960 B2
• Filed: 11/23/2005
• Issued: 04/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Kumbalimutt, Vishwajith
• Primary Examiner(s): Winder, Patrice
• Assistant Examiner(s): Golabbakhsh, Ebrahim
• Application Number:
  US11/286,757
• Publication Number:
  US 20070118642A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,323 Days
• Field of Search: 709/224, 709/201, 709/206, 709/238
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/544 Remote
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

Handling events. A method may be practiced, for example, in a networked computer system including an event handling computer connected to one or more event generating computers. The method includes an act of generating an event at an event generating computer. The event is rendered into a rendered event in an application independent format by combining static context information with dynamic event information. The rendered event is transmitted to the event handling computer.

Claims

1. In a networked computer environment including an event handling computer connected to one or more event generating computers, a method of handling events comprising:

receiving at an event generating computer a message from the event handling computer specifying a format for events to be sent to the event handling computer as either being rendered or raw events, wherein rendered events comprise data readable in an application independent format and raw events comprise data in a format readable by an application that generated an event;

generating an event at the event generating computer;

rendering the event into the format specified by the event handling computer, wherein the specified format comprises a rendered event in an application independent format by combining static context information with dynamic event information; and

transmitting the rendered event and a rendered event definition to the event handling computer in an event package including a plurality of rendered events and corresponding rendered event definitions based on a batching request specified in the message received from the event handling computer, the event package indicating the format specified by the event handling computer, the rendered event definition comprising an XML schema defining how the rendered event is to be displayed at the event handling computer.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein rendering comprises rendering the event in a language specified by the event handling computer.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a message from the event handling computer specifying filter criteria defining what events should be transmitted to the event handling computer.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the event to the event handling computer comprises pushing the rendered event to the event handling computer.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the event to the event handling computer comprises having the rendered event pulled by the event handling computer.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing an indication to the event handling computer that the event is a rendered event.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the static context information includes at least one of a user name, a description string or a category.

8. In a networked computer environment including an event handling computer connected to one or more event generating computers, a method of handling events comprising:

subscribing to a publication/subscription service at an event generating computer, wherein subscribing to a publication/subscription service comprises;

transmitting a message from an event handling computer to the event generating computer, wherein the message specifies a format for events to be sent to the event handling computer as either being rendered events or raw events, wherein rendered events comprise data readable in an application independent format and raw events comprise data in a format readable by an application associated with an event; and

receiving an event from the event generating computer in the format specified by the event handling computer in the act of subscribing to the publication/subscription service, wherein the specified format is rendered events and the received event is received with a rendered event definition comprising an XML schema defining how the rendered event is to be displayed at the event handling computer, wherein the rendered event and the rendered event definition are received in an event package including a plurality of rendered events and corresponding rendered event definitions based on a batching request specified in the message transmitted from the event handling computer.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein subscribing to a publication/subscription service further comprises specifying filter criteria defining events to be transmitted from the event generating computer to the event handling computer, and wherein receiving an event from the event generating computer comprises receiving an event meeting the filter criteria.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising sending an XML message to the event generating computer, wherein the XML message specifies the filter criteria and specifies the format for events as either being rendered or raw events.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein specifying filter criteria defining events to be transmitted from the event generating computer to the event handling computer comprises specifying at least one of channels to be monitored, type of event, or time of event.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein receiving an event comprises receiving the rendered event comprising a static portion and a dynamic portion, the static portion including context information and the dynamic portion including information generated in conjunction with generating the event, the method further comprising processing the rendered event by displaying the event in an application independent format.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein subscribing to publication/subscription service further comprises specifying language criteria including an indication of a language in which the event is to be rendered.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein receiving the event from the event generating computer comprises pulling events from the event generating computer.

15. A computer system for use in a network environment including one or more interconnected computers, including an event handling computer configured to display events received at the event handling computer, the computer system comprising:

a processing unit configured to run program modules and application programs;

a memory configured to store data and program modules, memory comprising;

a publication/subscription service configured to receive subscriptions from one or more event handling computers to receive events, wherein a subscription specifies a format for events to be sent to the one or more event handling computers as either raw or rendered events, wherein rendered events comprise data readable in an application independent format and raw events comprise data in a format readable by an application that generated an event;

an application program configured to generate events;

an event rendering program module configured to render events into the format specified by the one or more event handling computers, wherein the specified format comprises rendered events including static context information and dynamic event information; and

a sending program module configured to send rendered events and corresponding rendered event definitions to an event handling computer registered with the publication/subscription service in an event package based on a batching request specified in a subscription received from the event handling computer, the event package indicating a format specified by the event handling computer, the rendered event definitions comprising XML schemas defining how corresponding rendered events are to be displayed at the event handling computer.

16. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the event render program module and the sending program module are embodied as one module.

17. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the sending program module comprises functionality for pushing rendered events to the event handling computer.

18. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the event rendering program module comprises functionality for rendering events in a language specified by an event handling computer.