Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Yosef Firstenberg

Larry Jin

Joseph Anthony East

Lan Tang

George Joy

Gaurav S Anand

Jeroen Vanturennout

Kevin Michael Woley

Ranjib Singh Badh

Matthew Robert Ayers

Li Hua

Ravikant Cherukuri

Alton Kwok

Darren Louie

Cheuk Wan William Lau

Eyal Axelrod

Vipul Bansal

Ritu Varma

Ihor Leshko

Matthew R Ayers

An actionable event notification disclosed herein provides actionable push notifications that allow an application server to collect information from end users. The actionable event notification includes a notification server that receives notification requests from application servers and communicates notifications to users where the notifications include specification for a notification UI form. In one implementation, the notification server modifies the callback identification on the notification from identification for the application server to identification for the notification server. A client device presents the notification UI form to a user to receive user responses. The user responses are communicated back to the notification server. The notification server processes the user responses and communicates them to the application server as necessary. Alternatively, the user responses are communicated directly to the application server requesting the notifications.

Processing actionable notifications

Actionable notifications

One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for providing awareness of user availability. A user may activate a device, and a request to manage an availability status can be sent from the device to a communication service. The communication service may resultantly set up monitoring of the user status, and the availability status of the user can be set to available. If an active status update is not received from the user device, the availability status of the user can be changed from available to away. If an active status update for the user continues not to be received (e.g., for a few hours) and/or device connectivity seems lost, the availability status of the user can be changed from away to offline. This can be done in a resource/power efficient manner by not requiring continual execution of an associated application and/or continual network connectivity of the device.

User availability awareness

The claimed subject matter provides a method for communicating with a client. The method includes receiving a notification token that identifies the client. The method further includes registering the client to receive a message when the client is not connected to the server. The method also includes sending the message to the client when the client does not have a connection to the server, based on the registering and the notification token. The message may be sent using a notification channel.

Messaging for notification-based clients

The claimed subject matter provides a method for publishing location information. The method includes receiving the location information from an entity. The entity may be associated with a geographic location. The method further includes identifying one or more entities to be notified of the location information. Additionally, the method includes sending the location information to the identified entities.

Publishing location information

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

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