Patent ID: 9417759
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: opening a first browser window, the first browser window including a first browser tab accessing a first application; requesting unread notification information from a server for the first browser window; determining a total number of unread notifications for the first application and a second application; initializing a shared synchronized storage portion of a local storage at a client device with the requested unread notification information and the total number of unread notifications, the shared synchronized storage portion being used by the first browser window and a second browser window; updating the first browser tab with the total number of unread notifications; retrieving the requested unread notification information and a timestamp from the local storage at the client device for use in the first browser tab; determining whether the timestamp is recently updated; opening the second browser window, the second browser window including a second browser tab accessing the second application; updating the second browser tab with the total number of unread notifications from the shared synchronized storage portion at the client device if the timestamp was recently updated; and if the timestamp was not recently updated: