AGGREGATING CONTENT FROM DIFFERENT CONTENT SOURCES AT A CLOUD SERVICE

摘要

A cloud service stores and aggregates content that is obtained from different content sources using different protocols. For example, the content may include electronic messages, calendar information, contacts, social network content, feed data, search results, and the like. The cloud service aggregates content for each user based on the user's configuration settings. The cloud service may perform processing on the aggregated content before it is delivered and displayed to the user on the client device. For example, one or more views may be generated and stored by the cloud service before the view is requested from the client. Changes made to the aggregated content on the client may be synchronized with the content source. Searches may be made across all or a portion of the different content sources that are aggregated for a user.

主权项

1. A method for aggregating content at a cloud service, comprising:
obtaining content from different content sources that use different protocols using the cloud service; aggregating the content at the cloud service and associating the aggregated content with a user; storing the aggregated content for the user at the cloud service; and using a single delivery protocol to deliver aggregated content to a client computing device regardless of the different protocols used by the cloud service to obtain the content.