Patent ID: 9647969
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for utilizing email as a transport mechanism for social system activity stream posting, comprising: receiving, by a source service computer system, content to be delivered to a social system activity stream, the content related to a social system event; determining, by the source service computer system, that an imposed impediment prevents direct synchronous interaction between the source service computer system and the social system activity stream; preparing, by the source service computer system, responsive to the determining, an email from the content, wherein a destination email address of the email is dynamically determined by the source service computer system; programmatically submitting the email to a source email system configured to send the email across the imposed impediment; sending, by the source email system, the email to a target email system across the imposed impediment for asynchronous delivery; receiving the email at the target email system, the received email including the content related to the social system event; processing the received email, by a processing device, wherein processing the received email comprises recognizing metadata indicative of the content related to the social system event and scanning the received email to identify the content related to the social system event that is to be posted to the social system activity stream; extracting from the received email, by the processing device, the content related to the social system event that is to be posted to the social system activity stream, wherein the extracting further comprises extracting a gadget identifier; obtaining by the processing device, based on the gadget identifier, a gadget from an external repository; posting, by the processing device, the content related to the social system event and the gadget to the social system activity stream; and presenting, by the processing device using the gadget additional information related to the social system event wherein the additional information is not included in the received email.