Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Darren Louie

Gaurav S Anand

Kevin Michael Woley

George Joy

Matthew Robert Ayers

Benjamin D L Stewart

Donovan P Regan

Ravikant Cherukuri

Jeroen Vanturennout

Benjamin Salim Srour

Kandarp Jani

Rajeev Dutt

Evgeny Skarbovsky

Basel Abdus Salam

Yossi Firstenberg

Yosef Firstenberg

Lan Tang

William Lau

Cheuk Wan William Lau

Suresh Parameshwar

Mohammad Saifur Rahman

Nathan J Kuchta

Sachin Jagadish Patil

Matthew R Ayers

Fei Dai

Aditi Saha Aditi

Pranathi Venkatayogi

Various embodiments provide session-based filtering to filter messages in a cooperative manner between a client and a service provider. In at least some embodiments, a service provider can establish a messaging session with a client and deliver messages to the client. The client can implement various client-side techniques to filter some of the messages based on various client designated criteria. The service provider can obtain feedback from the client indicative of one or more of the delivered messages that have been filtered. The service provider can dynamically create a session-based list based on the feedback and use the list during the session to block messages on the server-side according to the client designated criteria. When the session concludes, the session-based list can be discarded. In this manner, message filtering can occur without persistent storage of state data for the filtering at the service provider.

Cooperative session-based filtering

A notification service receives messages including various data from application services, and provides notifications including that data to the appropriate computing devices. Each computing device includes a notification system that receives notifications from the notification service and provides those notifications to the appropriate applications on the computing device. If an application is not allowed to run on a computing device, the notification system on the computing device provides an indication to the notification service to block notifications for the application on the computing device. The notification service ceases providing notifications to a computing device targeting applications for which notifications are blocked on the computing device until an indication is received from the computing device to unblock notifications for the application.

Power efficient brokered communication supporting notification blocking

Stateless application notifications are described that enable third parties to provide messages to client applications. A communication channel can be established between a notification service and an application. Upon request, the notification service can generate obfuscated routing data for the channel, which can be in the form of a channel handle or token. The routing data can be encrypted and digitally signed to obscure the content and format of the routing data from third parties. An application service possessing the obfuscated routing data can package a notification with the data and send the package to the notification service for delivery. The application service does so without knowing the channel particulars encoded by the obfuscated routing data. The notification service that produces the obfuscated routing data can decrypt and interpret the data, and deliver the notification on the channel to an appropriate endpoint application on behalf of the application service.

Stateless application notifications

Various embodiments enable automatic cooperative logging of information associated with a connection between at least two computing devices. In some cases, a first computing device can automatically trigger logging on a second computing device upon detection of at least one scenario. Alternately or additionally, the second computing device can respond to the first computing device with additional and/or supplemental logging requests.

Cooperative client and server logging

In one embodiment, a notification servermay batch together notifications to reduce power consumption. A notification servermay receive a power consumption profilefrom a client device. The notification servermay assign a notification batch schedule at a notification serverbased on the power consumption profile

Batching notifications to optimize for battery life

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