US Patent 7366796 Method and levels of ping notification

Patent 7366796 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on April, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Patent attributes

Current Assignee

Microsoft

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

73667960

Date of Patent

April 29, 2008

Patent Application Number

106457930

Date Filed

August 21, 2003

Patent Primary Examiner

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Salad Abdullahi

Patent abstract

A method is provided for sending notifications to a mobile device to indicate that there is data on a computing device to be synchronized. Under one embodiment, the notification is sent as a short message service message. Multiple levels of notification are possible with the lowest level indicating only that there is data to be synchronized and the highest level identifying the object that changed and the content of the change.