US 11,606,443 B1Granted

Read-time relevance-based unseen notification handling

AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC

InventorsDavid Benjamin Liu, Rakesh Malladi, Swetha Nagabhushan Karthik, Gargi Harish Bhandari, Ajith Muralidharan, Ruiqi Wang

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Abstract

Technologies for unseen notification handling are described. Embodiments select an initial set of notifications, provide the selected initial set of notifications to a client device, store seen notifications in a first data store, maintain sent but unseen notifications in a second data store that is an in-memory online data store, retrieve a set of the sent but unseen notifications from the second data store, create a list of unseen notifications by combining the retrieved set of sent but unseen notifications with a set of unsent and unseen notifications, generate a set of relevance scores for the list of unseen notifications, create a new version of the list of unseen notifications based on the new set of relevance scores, and provide the new version of the list of the unseen notifications to the client device.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

selecting an initial set of notifications based on an initial set of relevance scores;
providing the selected initial set of notifications to a client device;
storing seen notifications of the initial set of notifications and a user identifier associated with the client device in a first data store that is an online data store but not an in-memory data store;
maintaining sent but unseen notifications of the initial set of notifications and the user identifier in a second data store that is an in-memory online data store;
retrieving a set of the sent but unseen notifications from the second data store;
creating a list of unseen notifications by combining the retrieved set of sent but unseen notifications with a set of unsent and unseen notifications;
generating a new set of relevance scores for the list of unseen notifications;
creating a new version of the list of unseen notifications based on the new set of relevance scores;
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responsive to an online trigger event received from the client device, providing the new version of the list of the unseen notifications to an in-app notification service of the client device.

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A system, comprising:

at least one processor;
memory coupled to the at least one processor;
the memory stores instructions that when executed by the at least one processor cause the at least one processor to be capable of:
selecting an initial set of notifications based on an initial set of relevance scores;
providing the selected initial set of notifications to a client device;
storing seen notifications of the initial set of notifications and a user identifier associated with the client device in a first data store that is an online data store but not an in-memory data store;
maintaining unseen notifications of the initial set of notifications and the user identifier in a second data store that is an in-memory online data store;
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responsive to an online trigger event received from the client device, (i) retrieving a set of unseen notifications from the second data store, (ii) generating a new set of relevance scores for the unseen notifications in the retrieved set, (iii) creating a list of unseen notifications based on the new set of relevance scores, and (iv) providing the list of unseen notifications to the client device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.