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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsGiselli Panontini De Souza Sana, Daniel V Kling, Sridhar Raman, Jim R Van Eaton, Russell L Simpson
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A server push model for client/server communications. The push architecture operates on top of a non-push (e.g., request/response) protocol (e.g., HTTP) to combine notifications from multiple data sources (e.g., email, text messaging, etc.). The server can be a middle-tier server (or proxy) to which a single web client registers interest in one or more notification types from one or more data sources. The mid-tier server aggregates the notifications from the various data sources and delivers the notifications to the requesting client via a single “push” pipe. The web client then distributes each notification to the appropriate parts of the client user interface. A producer/consumer locking mechanism eliminates blocking threads waiting on a mutual exclusion lock. A notification throttling mechanism distinguishes different types of notifications in order to guarantee that the client is not overloaded with too much information.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
A computing device comprising:
A computer-readable storage medium not consisting of a signal, the computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions, the computer-executable instructions, when executed, causing a computing device to perform steps comprising:
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