Patent ID: 11902395
Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
receiving a digital electronic notification comprising an identification of a user account that is to receive the digital electronic notification;
identifying a plurality of devices corresponding to the user account on which is installed an application corresponding to the digital electronic notification;
determining using processing circuitry, for each of the plurality of devices, historical usage data relating to the application and the device of the plurality of devices, wherein the historical usage data of each device comprises:
a time stamp indicating the time the device was last used;
historical notification response data indicating a number of responses to notifications from the application on the device; and
historical application usage data indicating an amount of usage of the application on the device;

determining an urgency of the notification;
determining a set of devices from the plurality of devices, wherein the time stamp of each device in the set of devices is within a time window;
determining whether the urgency of the notification is greater than a threshold value;
in response to determining that the urgency of the notification is greater than the threshold value, selecting, using the processing circuitry, a particular device of the set of devices having a highest historical notification response data among the set of devices;
in response to determining that the urgency of the notification not greater than a threshold value, selecting, using the processing circuitry, a particular device of the set of devices having a highest historical application usage data among the set of devices; and
transmitting the digital electronic notification to the particular device.