US 10,454,864 B2Granted

Delivering messages from message sources to subscribing recipients

AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC

InventorsSteven W. Ickman, Thomas M. Laird-McConnell

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Abstract

Many scenarios involve the delivery of messages received from various message sources to recipients, based on subscriptions established between various recipients and message sources. The recipients may be distributively assigned to one or more message servers, either operating independently or as part of an interoperating message server set. Respective message servers may generate a subscription filter indicating whether at least one assigned recipient subscribes to respective message sources, and may utilize the subscription filter to determine, upon receiving a message from a message source, whether to discard the message or store the message for delivery. Interoperating message servers may also exchange subscription filters, and upon receiving a message from any message source, a message server may utilize the subscription filters of the other message servers to determine which other message servers are assigned at least one subscribing recipient, and may retransmit the message only to such message servers.

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Dependent claims

A method of causing a message server having a processor, a memory, and a subscription filter, to deliver messages respectively generated by a message source to a first user and a second user of the who are serviced by the message server, the method comprising:

executing, by the processor, instructions that cause the message server to:
responsive to receiving a message from a message source:
examine the subscription filter to determine whether at least one-of the first user and the second user subscribes to the message source;
responsive to determining that at least one of the first user and the second user subscribes to the message source:
store a copy of the message in the memory, and
store in the memory an association of the message with the at least one of the first user and the second user who subscribe to the message source;
and
responsive to a receive request from a selected user to receive messages:
identify a selected message that is associated with the selected user;
retrieve, from the message store, the copy of the selected message;
and
present the selected message to the user.

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Facts

Application: 14/257,894Filed 21 Apr 2014 · continuation
Priority: 23 Jun 2010
Published: US 2014/0229561 A114 Aug 2014
Granted: 22 Oct 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H04L 51/212
Monitoring or handling of messages: using filtering or selective blocking
G06F 9/542
Interprogram communication: event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
H04L 51/214
Monitoring or handling of messages: using selective forwarding
H04L 51/52
User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail: for…

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Application12/821,683Parent of this continuation · filed 23 Jun 2010
US 2014/0229561 A1Pre-grant publication · published 14 Aug 2014
US 8,706,822 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2011/0320538 A1Published application
US 10,454,864 B2This patent

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