Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Manoj Sivakumar

Shaunak Chatterjee

Shipeng Yu

Kinjal Basu

Guanchao Wang

Yiping Yuan

Sowmitra Thallapragada

Pratik Daga

Matthew Hsing Hung Walker

Thomas Dickens

Varun Bharill

A unified notification platform for offline creation and distribution of notification content from a variety of data sources is described. The notification platform provides data adaptors that are reusable for generating notifications of different types, specifically, for generating notifications of different types that have features that have meaning across different notification types such that these features can be used to generate comparable relevance scores with respect to candidate profiles. The relevance score calculated for a notification with respect to a member profile is used to determine whether the notification is to be presented to the member represented by the member profile.

Content generation and targeting

This disclosure relates to requesting content items of a web page, via a first request and a second request and responding to the requests. The server computer receives the first request from a client computer and responds to the first request by sending a plurality of default content items to the requesting client computer. The server computer receives the second request from the client computer and responds to the second request by sending a plurality of non-default content items to the requesting client computer. In one or more disclosed embodiments, the client computer stores the plurality of non-default content items in a cache. This disclosure also relates to parsing data in the cache.

Requesting, responding and parsing

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