Social network notifications
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsJared A. Brown, Monica Estela Gonzalez Veron, Jannes Paul Peters, Adam E. Barrus, Albert Shen, Michael R. Ducker, Gokul P. Thirumalai, Ryan M. Haning, Karen L. Davis
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Abstract
Social network notifications are described. In implementations, a notification is received at a client device from a social network service that includes content that is posted for access via the social network service and includes an identifier of an originator of the posting. The notification is output by the client device to include the content from the posting and the identifier of the originator of the posting.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving a notification at a client device from a social network service that includes content that is posted for access via the social network service and includes an identifier of an originator of the posting;
- and
- outputting the notification by the client device to include the content from the posting and the identifier of the originator of the posting.
A method implemented by at least one computing device, the method comprising:
- receiving a communication at a social network service that includes content that is to be posted for access via the social network service;
- configuring a notification to include the content from the communication and an identifier of an originator of the communication;
- and
- transmitting the notification having the content and the identifier for receipt by one or more users of the social network service.
A client device comprising one or more modules that are configured to perform operations comprising displaying one or more notifications received from a social network service in a user interface, the notifications sent to the client device due to an indication that a user of the client device is a friend of an originator of a communication that initiated the notification, the one or more notifications that are displayed are filtered for display based on a likely relevancy of the notification to the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.