Extensible user context system for delivery of notifications
CA 2519973 C · Owner: Van Dok, Cornelis K. · Inventors: Van Dok, Cornelis K.; Mckee, Timothy P.; Debry, Fabrice A.
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A system (200) for controlling the delivery of notifications. The system brokers and serializes the delivery of notifications (206) from multiple sources. In addition, a shared notion of user context is provided for , determining the appropriate handling for each of the notifications. In one embodiment, a user context consists of a condition that may be true or false and an instruction that is to be followed if the condition is true. For example, if a user is listening to music the instruction may be to show the , notification on the screen but not play any sound for the notification. A user's contexts are declared by the operating system and arbitrary programs(204). The user's …
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