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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2011
Girija Bhagavatula, Redmond, WA (US);
Aidan Downes, Seattle, WA (US);
Vadim Eydelman, Bellevue, WA (US);
Neeraj Garg, Hyderabad, IN;
Anand Lakshminarayanan, Redmond, WA (US);
Bimal K. Mehta, Sammamish, WA (US);
Deepak Rao, Bellevue, WA (US);
Rahul Thatte, Hyderabad, IN;
Girija Bhagavatula, Redmond, WA (US);
Aidan Downes, Seattle, WA (US);
Vadim Eydelman, Bellevue, WA (US);
Neeraj Garg, Hyderabad, IN;
Anand Lakshminarayanan, Redmond, WA (US);
Bimal K. Mehta, Sammamish, WA (US);
Deepak Rao, Bellevue, WA (US);
Rahul Thatte, Hyderabad, IN;
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A centralized service communicatively links an application provider to a plurality of different message forwarding services. The centralized service receives a request and authenticates the application provider associated with the request. Further, the centralized service delivers a message embodied by the request to a first message forwarding service with a first protocol and/or to a second message forwarding service with a second protocol different than the first protocol.