Enabling notification from a network resource

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10708374-B2
Application number	US-201815951998-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 12, 2018
Priority date	Feb 20, 2014
Publication date	Jul 7, 2020
Grant date	Jul 7, 2020

Abstract

Techniques for enabling notification from a network resource are described. In at least some embodiments, a user subscribes to receive notifications from a network resource, such as a website, a web-based resource, and so forth. The network resource can provide notifications to a client device of the user, such as a push notification indicating that content is available from the network resource. Based on the push notification, content from the network resource can be presented on the client device, such as in a notification indicator presented on the client device and associated with the network resource.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
at least one processor; and
one or more computer-readable storage media devices including instructions stored thereon executable by the at least one processor to, at a client device:
receive an indication of user input requesting to subscribe to receive content from a network resource;
generate a channel link including an identifier to identify the client device by which the content from the network resource is to be output;
map the channel link to a notification indicator at the client device for the network resource, the notification indicator generated to represent the network resource at the client device and to provide output from the network resource on the client device; and
receive content from the network resource based on the channel link and cause the notification indicator to output the content at the client device.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the content comprises a push notification from the network resource to the client device.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are further executable by the at least one processor to: authenticate with a notification service to allow the network resource to provide the content to the client device.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are further executable by the at least one processor to: authenticate with a notification service to allow the network resource to provide the content to the client device, the notification service being separate from the network resource.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the notification indicator comprises a visual mechanism displayed on the client device and configured to output the content from the network resource.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the instructions are further executable by the at least one processor to:
communicate the channel link to the network resource to enable the network resource to provide the content to the client device.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the network resource comprises a website, and wherein the notification indicator comprises a visual representation separate from the website.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the content includes audio content, and wherein the instructions are further executable by the at least one processor to:
cause the audio content to be output by the client device.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the notification indicator is generated by a service separate from the network resource.

10. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
executing, by a processor at a client device, the steps of:
receiving an indication of user input requesting to subscribe to receive content from a network resource;
generating a channel link including an identifier to identify the client device by which the content from the network resource is to be output;
mapping the channel link to a notification indicator at the client device for the network resource, the notification indicator generated to represent the network resource at the client device and to provide output from the network resource on the client device; and
receiving content from the network resource based on the channel link and causing the notification indicator to output the content at the client device.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the notification indicator is generated by a service separate from the network resource.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the content comprises a push notification from the network resource.

13. The method of claim 10 , wherein the method further includes authenticating the client device with a notification service to allow the network resource to provide the content to the client device.

14. The method of claim 10 , wherein the method further includes authenticating the client device with a notification service to allow the network resource to provide the content to the client device, the notification service being separate from the network resource.

15. The method of claim 10 , wherein the notification indicator comprises a visual mechanism displayed on the client device and configured to output the content from the network resource.

16. The method of claim 10 , wherein the method further includes communicating the channel link from the client device to the network resource to enable the network resource to provide the content to the client device.

17. The method of claim 10 , wherein the network resource comprises a website, and wherein the notification indicator comprises a visual representation separate from the website.

18. The method of claim 10 , wherein the content includes audio content, and wherein the method further includes causing the audio content to be output by the client device.

Assignees

• Microsoft Technology Licensing Llc

Inventors

• Lau Cheuk Wan William
• Dolin Robert M
• Jin Larry
• Yamini Smriti
• Roberts Melanie Vanessa
• Tang Lan

Classifications

• G06F16/951 Primary

  Indexing; Web crawling techniques · CPC title

• H04L67/55 Primary

  Push-based network services · CPC title

• H04L67/146

  Markers for unambiguous identification of a particular session, e.g. session cookie or URL-encoding · CPC title

• H04L67/02

  based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP] · CPC title

• H04L67/26 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic