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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsTammy L. Savage, James A. Holt, David L. Waldrop, Christopher E. Mitchell, Miten Navnitrai Mehta
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Described is a technology in which a platform unifies various social network and alerting mechanisms to provide a relationship-based communication network. An affiliation service allows organizations and individuals to connect, grant permissions and share useful information about themselves in the form of relationship-based and other attributes. A publishing service routes that information to the correct recipients, including by matching desired attributes to attributes of clients recipients. A data exchange service facilitates reporting, routing, monitoring and responding to such information, as well as providing relevant external data feeds to clients. In this manner, users and organizations are able to more easily connect and work together to resolve societal problems via a single platform that facilitates user and organizational participation.
In a computing environment, a system comprising, a platform by which clients communicate messages, including an affiliation service that collects client attributes and endpoint preference data that includes client relationships with at least one other affiliates, a publishing service that sends a message from a sender client to at least one recipient client, the publishing service referencing the endpoint preference data of each recipient client to send the message to an endpoint of that client as specified in the endpoint preference data, and a data exchange service by which clients send reports, and receive content based on the attributes of each client.
In a computing environment, a method comprising:
In a computing environment, a system comprising, a publishing service that is coupled to client profile data including attributes and client preference data, the publishing service configured to:
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