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Automatically providing notifications regarding interesting content from shared sources based on important persons and important sources for a user

  • US 9,563,875 B2
  • Filed: 12/02/2004
  • Issued: 02/07/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer implemented method for automatically providing notifications to a user regarding interesting content, comprising:

  • determining important persons for said user by monitoring communications of said user through an electronic mail application, wherein said determining includes automatically determining said important persons for said user responsive to said monitoring and without receiving an explicit request for notifications from said user, said automatically determined important persons for said user consisting only of a predetermined number of other users with which said user has most frequently communicated with via said electronic mail application;

    determining an important content source for said user, wherein said important content source comprises a central on-line discussion database;

    detecting, by an event generating process executing within said central on-line discussion database, modify operations, wherein said modify operations comprise adding at least one document to said important content source;

    transmitting, to a computer of said user over a computer network and by the event generating process executing within said central on-line discussion database, at least one Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) message notifying that there is a new document in said central on-line discussion database; and

    filtering received messages by said computer of said user such that said user is only notified when said modify operations are performed by said important persons, without notifying said user when said modify operations are performed by users other than said important persons.

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