US 11,240,332 B2Granted

Subscription based event notifications

AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC

InventorsCesar M. Ruiz-Meraz, Clemens F. Vasters, David L. Stucki, Hillary Caituiro Monge, Hitesh Madan, Jayaraman Kalyana Sundaram, PadmaPriya Aradhyula Bhavani, Venkata Raja Gopal Ravipati

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Abstract

Systems and methods for providing targeted event notifications to subscribers are disclosed. In an example embodiment, events may be received from a publisher. The events may be categorized into a plurality of topics. The events may be distributed among brokers to process a topic selected from the plurality of topics based on the events. Further, it may be determined whether the topic exists in a list of topics handled by the brokers. Authentication credentials of the publisher may be validated, based on the determination. Based on the validation, queues of the events may be formed based on an order of receipt of the events. The events present in the queues may be filtered based on subscriptions of the events. For the fileted events, targeted even notifications may be forwarded to the subscribers.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

a receiver to receive events from a publisher, the events being categorized into a plurality of topics;
a distributor, in communication with the receiver, to distribute the events among brokers to process a topic from the plurality of topics based on the events;
the brokers, in communication with the distributor, to:
determine whether the topic exists in a list of topics handled by the brokers;
validate authentication credentials of the publisher, based on the determination;
form a queue of the events based on an order of receipt of the events, based on the validation;
filter the events present in the queue based on subscriptions of the events;
and
dispatch a targeted event notification to subscribers for the filtered events;
a router in communication with the receiver to route the events;
and
at least one governor in communication with the router to determine an operational status of at least one of an edge node, at least one of the brokers, and a cluster, based on usage metrics,
wherein the at least one governor includes a node resource governor to:
compute node metrics based on the usage metrics;
transmit the node metrics to a cluster resource governor and a regional resource governor for further computation;
and
perform operations based on instructions received from the cluster resource governor and the regional resource governor.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/824,352Filed 19 Mar 2020 · continuation
Priority: 15 Aug 2017
Published: US 2020/0220941 A19 Jul 2020
Granted: 1 Feb 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification16 codes

H04L 67/55
Network services: push-based network services
G06F 9/542
Interprogram communication: event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
H04L 12/1859
For broadcast or conference , e.g. multicast: adapted to provide push services, e.g. data channels
H04L 45/306
Route determination based on requested QoS: route determination based on the nature of the carried application

Family

Application62/545,806Us provisional application · filed 15 Aug 2017
Application15/906,902Parent of this continuation · filed 27 Feb 2018
US 2020/0220941 A1Pre-grant publication · published 9 Jul 2020
US 10,637,946 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2019/0056978 A1Published application
US 11,240,332 B2This patent

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