Patent ID: 9350693
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing notifications from a first computing device to at least one other computing device, comprising: capturing, by a first cross-notification component on the first computing device, a native notification from the operating system of the first computing device or from an application running on the first computing device, wherein the first computing device is a member of a plurality of computing devices, wherein each of the plurality of computing devices has a cross-notification component, and wherein the plurality is associated with a single user; formatting, by the first cross-notification component, the captured native notification as a first notice; causing, by the first computing cross-notification component, the first notice to be displayed by the first computing device; causing, by the first cross-notification component, the first notice to be transmitted to all other devices of the plurality of computing devices; and receiving, by the first cross-notification component, from one of the plurality of computing devices, a response to a notice, wherein if the response relates to the first notice transmitted by the first computing device, then the response is applied to the first notice by the cross-notification component and the response is also applied to the native notification by the operating system of the first computing device or by the application running on the first computing device, and wherein if the response relates to a second notice that was received by the plurality of computing devices from a second computing device of the plurality of computing devices, then the response is applied to the second notice by the first cross-notification component.