US 11,954,088 B2
Alert feed and subscription management
Nathaniel Botwick, San Francisco, CA (US); and Norris Lee, South San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Salesforce, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by salesforce.com, inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/162,433.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/050,658, filed on Jul. 10, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0012227 A1, Jan. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 16/21 (2019.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01); G06F 16/25 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/2358 (2019.01) [G06F 9/542 (2013.01); G06F 16/219 (2019.01); G06F 16/252 (2019.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
generating, by one or more processors, a first subscription based on a frequently viewed field accessed by a first user in a collaborative document stored in a cloud collaborative environment, wherein the first subscription specifies a criterion of a change to the frequently viewed field within the collaborative document, and wherein users of the cloud collaborative environment have permissions to collaboratively change the frequently viewed field within the collaborative document from a respective device;
generating, by the one or more processors, an alert based on a first modification notice identifying a change to a first field of the collaborative document, wherein a second user of the cloud collaborative environment changes the collaborative document and the change satisfies a criterion specified in the first subscription for the first user of the cloud collaborative environment; and
inserting, by the one or more processors, the alert in an alert feed configured in an alert graphical user interface (GUI) to display a plurality of alerts for the first user of the cloud collaborative environment.