Query-based notification architecture

• US 9,665,588 B2
• Filed: 05/21/2010
• Issued: 05/30/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: MacLaurin, Matthew B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ortiz Ditren, Belix M
• Application Number:
  US12/784,884
• Publication Number:
  US 20100228778A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,566 Days
• Field of Search: 707634
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/302 where the computing system component is a software system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3079 the data filtering being achieved by reporting only the changes of the monitored data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/1734 Details of monitoring file system events, e.g. by the use of hooks, filter drivers, logs
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching

Abstract

A data repository monitoring system that utilizes queries to generate notifications in response to the identification of new and changed content. The system includes a monitoring component that monitors a plurality of disparate repositories in order to identify the receipt of new or modified content. The monitoring component includes a query component(s) that identifies metadata of imported content. The query can be generated and communicated to the monitoring component via a graphical user interface. A notification component is also provided to generate a prompt upon the receipt of incoming content as identified by the query component. The invention employs a centralized store (e.g., change queue) that maintains metadata corresponding to imported (e.g., new) metadata.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates tracking content of a plurality of repositories, the system comprising:

one or more processors;

one or more memories having stored thereupon a plurality of processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform actions comprising;

monitoring imported metadata that corresponds to content received into the plurality of repositories to determine that a change occurs with respect to the content;

executing a query that monitors the plurality of repositories for metadata that indicates the change with respect to the content; and

defining the query based on a hardware limitation of a computing device, the defining including sending a command to omit a notification of the change with respect to the content in response to determining that new content associated with the change has a characteristic that exceeds the hardware limitation of the computing device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the actions further comprise maintaining the imported metadata.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the hardware limitation is a memory capacity or a storage capacity of the computing device.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the actions further comprise conditionally generating an alert of the change based at least on the imported metadata matching the query.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the actions further comprise providing a user interface including a notification panel that receives the alert.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the actions further comprise designating the query as a standing query based at least partly on receiving an icon that represents the query at the notification panel of the user interface.

7. The system of claim 4, wherein the alert is a visual alert.

8. The system of claim 4, wherein the alert is an audible alert.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the actions further comprise indicating a level of confidence that the query is in accordance with a user intention based at least in part on at least one of probabilistic, statistic, or regression based analysis.

10. A computer-implemented method comprising:

defining a query as an important query that monitors at least one of a plurality of disparate repositories for metadata associated with new content, the query being defined based at least in part on a predicted user intention generated by artificial intelligence, and the plurality of disparate repositories including one or more repositories that are each associated with one of local file stores, shared file stores, or websites;

assigning a value that indicates a level of confidence that the predicted user intention is in accordance with an actual user intention based at least in part on an automatic classifier function that employs at least one of probabilistic, statistic, or regression based analysis;

storing metadata that corresponds to the new content;

executing the query to identify the metadata; and

generating a notification upon identification of the metadata.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising adding the query to a notification panel of a graphical user interface.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising designating the query as a standing query.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising storing the metadata in a change queue.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the defining the query further comprises employing at least one of rule-based logic, probabilistic, statistical, or regression based analysis to automatically define the query.

15. A computer-implemented method comprising:

providing a user interface that enables a user to define a query;

detecting a dragging of an icon that represents the query onto a notification panel at the user interface;

designating the query as an important query that monitors at least one of a plurality of disparate repositories, the plurality of disparate repositories including one or more repositories each associated with one of local file stores, shared file stores, or websites;

displaying via the user interface a first indication in response to determining that the important query has identified metadata that corresponds to new content and that the new content is received by a first software application for storage in the plurality of disparate repositories; and

displaying via the user interface a second indication in response to determining that the important query has identified metadata that corresponds to the new content and that the new content is received by a second software application for storage in the plurality of disparate repositories, the first software application being different from the second software application.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the user interface displays the query via the notification panel.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

rewriting the query automatically using artificial intelligence in accordance with at least one of a predefined rule or a predicted user intention; and

executing the query as rewritten by the artificial intelligence to monitor the plurality of disparate repositories to detect a change to the content of the one or more repositories.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising providing an alert of a change to content of the one or more repositories.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the alert is a visual alert.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the alert is an audible alert.