Aggregating content from different content sources at a cloud service

US9219776B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

• Jonathan LeCroy · Redmond, US
• Gurashish Singh Brar · Redmond, US
• Joe Yap · Sammamish, US
• Victor Wang · San Diego, US
• Umut Alev · Mercer Island, US
• Vamsi Kanamaluru · Kirkland, US
• Dmitri Gavrilov · Redmond, US
• Tali Roth · Kirkland, US
• Aditi Desai · Redmond, US
• Mike Borysenko · Redmond, US
• Ethan Joseph Bernstein · Mercer Island, US
• Patrick Tousignant · Bellevue, US
• Fernando Garcia · Redondo Beach, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 24, 2013
• Grant date: Dec 22, 2015
• Expiry date: Sep 16, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L65/403
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A cloud service stores and aggregates content that is obtained from different content sources using different protocols. For example, the content may include electronic messages, calendar information, contacts, social network content, feed data, search results, and the like. The cloud service aggregates content for each user based on the user's configuration settings. The cloud service may perform processing on the aggregated content before it is delivered and displayed to the user on the client device. For example, one or more views may be generated and stored by the cloud service before the view is requested from the client. Changes made to the aggregated content on the client may be synchronized with the content source. Searches may be made across all or a portion of the different content sources that are aggregated for a user.