PROVIDING AN UNSEEN MESSAGE COUNT ACROSS DEVICES

摘要

Embodiments are directed to providing an indication of unseen email messages to a mobile device user, to establishing an unseen email message count and to maintaining a consistent unseen email message count across multiple mobile devices. In one scenario, a computer system receives subscription data that subscribes a user to email push notifications. The subscription data includes a token ID and a timestamp. The computer system determines that a new email message has arrived at the user's inbox and accesses the user's email inbox to determine the number of unseen email messages (which includes the number of email messages that have been received at the user's inbox and have not been viewed or marked as read using another email client since the time listed on the timestamp). The computer system also sends a push notification with the number of unseen email messages to each of the user's subscribed mobile devices.

主权项

1. A computer system comprising the following:
one or more processors; system memory; one or more computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the computing system to perform a method for providing an indication of unseen email messages to a mobile device user, the method comprising the following:
an act of receiving, from a mobile device user, subscription data that includes a token ID for at least one mobile device associated with the user and a timestamp that indicates the last time the mobile device user's email inbox was accessed, the subscription data subscribing the user to email push notifications;an act of determining that a new email message has arrived for the user at the user's email inbox;an act of accessing the user's email inbox to determine the number of unseen email messages, the number of unseen email messages comprising the number of email messages that have been received at the user's inbox and have not been viewed or marked as read using another email client since the time listed on the timestamp; andan act of sending a push notification to each of the user's subscribed mobile devices, the push notification providing the number of unseen email messages.