Providing localized individually customized updates from a social network site to a desktop application

• US 8,635,248 B2
• Filed: 06/23/2008
• Issued: 01/21/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Obasanjo, Oludare Victor, Ming, Paul Richard Chen, Chandramouli, Deepa, Liu, Jiahe, Longino, Austin, Dolin, Robert M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham, Hung Q
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHEUNG, HUBERT G
• Application Number:
  US12/143,873
• Publication Number:
  US 20090319577A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,038 Days
• Field of Search: 707/785
• US Class Current: 707/785
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A method of providing updates from a social network to a desktop application is provided. An update is created in an application and if the application has permission, it creates an entry in a recent activity queue. The queue is then subject to analysis to reduce the number of entries in the queue. Subscribers that have permission to receive updates from the publisher and the publishing application then receive updates from the publisher.

Claims

1. A method of creating a notification in response to a change to a resource on a network, the method comprising:

creating, by an application via a computer in response to the change, an update that represents the change, where changes including the change are each of a type of a plurality of types;

publishing, on behalf of a user, the update to a recent activity queue that comprises updates from a publisher, the published update comprising an identifier of the application;

analyzing the recent activity queue, including the published update, in view of collapse conditions, where the analyzing comprises determining that types of some of the updates, including the published update, match one of the collapse conditions; and

collapsing, in response to the analyzing, the some of the updates into a single update in the recent activity queue based on a template that corresponds to the matching types, where the collapse conditions include;

a plurality of updates that are for a common target,

a plurality of updates that are superseded by newer updates,

a plurality of updates that are by a common user, and

a plurality of updates that are for a common resource,

where the template is one of three templates, and where a first of the three templates has a cardinality value of one, a second of the three templates has a cardinality value of two, and a third of the three templates has a cardinality value of many.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising adding to the update metadata that describes an action that resulted in the update.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising formatting the published update, the formatting comprising causing translation, by a translation application, of a human language of the published update to another human language of a subscriber.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising communicating the published update to subscribers of a distribution list.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the distribution list is a list of the subscribers that have permission to access to the resource.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the subscribers are able to receive the published update based on membership in a group.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing, in response to receiving a supported data format from a subscriber, the published update in the received supported data format.

8. At least one computer storage media that is not a signal or carrier wave per se, the at least one computer storage media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a method of creating a notification in response to a change to a resource on a network, the method comprising:

creating, by an application in response to the making the change, an update that represents the change, where changes including the change are each of a type of a plurality of types;

publishing, on behalf of a user, the update to a recent activity queue that comprises updates from a publisher, the published update comprising an identifier of the application;

analyzing the recent activity queue, including the published update, in view of collapse conditions, where the analyzing comprises determining that types of some of the updates, including the published update, match one of the collapse conditions; and

collapsing, in response to the analyzing, the some of the updates into a single update in the recent activity queue based on a template that corresponds to the matching types, where the collapse conditions include;

a plurality of updates that are for a common target,

a plurality of updates that are superseded by newer updates,

a plurality of updates that are by a common user, and

a plurality of updates that are for a common resource,

where the template is one of three templates, and where a first of the three templates has a cardinality value of one, a second of the three templates has a cardinality value of two, and a third of the three templates has a cardinality value of many.

9. The at least one computer storage media of claim 8, the method further comprising formatting the published update, the formatting comprising causing translation, by a translation application, from a human language of the published update to another human language of a subscriber.

10. The at least one computer storage media of claim 8, the method further comprising communicating the published update to subscribers of a distribution list.

11. The at least one computer storage media of claim 10, wherein the distribution list is a list of the subscribers that have permission to access to the resource.

12. The at least one computer storage media of claim 10, wherein the subscribers are able to receive the published update based on membership in a group.

13. The at least one computer storage media of claim 8, the method further comprising providing, in response to receiving a supported data format from a subscriber, the published update in the received supported data format.

14. A system configured for creating a notification in response to a change to a resource on a network, the system comprising:

a computer comprising a recent activity queue;

an application configured for creating, in response to making the change to the resource, an update that represents the change, where changes including the change are each of a type of a plurality of types;

a publisher configured for publishing, on behalf of a user, the update to the recent activity queue that comprises updates, the published update comprising an identifier of the application and an identifier of the publisher;

the computer further configured for analyzing the recent activity queue, including the published update, in view of collapse conditions, where the analyzing comprises determining that types of some of the updates, including the published update, match one of the collapse conditions, and for collapsing, in response to the analyzing, the some of the updates into a single update in the recent activity queue based on a template that corresponds to the matching types, where the collapse conditions include;

a plurality of updates that are for a common target,

a plurality of updates that are superseded by newer updates,

a plurality of updates that are by a common user, and

a plurality of updates that are for a common resource,

where the template is one of three templates, and where a first of the three templates has a cardinality value of one, a second of the three templates has a cardinality value of two, and a third of the three templates has a cardinality value of many.

15. The system of claim 14, further comprising the computer further configured for formatting the published update, the formatting comprising causing translation, by a translation application, from a human language of the published update to another human language of a subscriber.

16. The system of claim 14, further comprising the computer further configured for communicating the published update to subscribers of a distribution list.