Patent ID: 9473905
Filing Date: 2016-10-18
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for multichannel preferred device notification, the method comprising: receiving an electronic notification for a user; determining whether a device group comprising a plurality of electronic devices is defined for the user; identifying a notification subgroup comprising more than one of the electronic devices located within a predefined overlapping notification range based on determining that the device group is defined for the user; transmitting a location and activation status request to one or more of the electronic devices based on receiving the electronic notification for the user; collecting a location indicator and an activation status of the electronic devices in the device group; filtering the notification subgroup to remove any of the electronic devices having a sleeping status; identifying a primary device from the notification subgroup based on a notification priority defined for each of the electronic devices in the notification subgroup; sharing an identifier of the primary device and a membership list of the notification subgroup to the electronic devices of the notification subgroup; triggering generation of a notification output corresponding to the electronic notification on the primary device; and coordinating a reassignment of one of the electronic devices as the primary device through a notification server having a notification manager, the reassignment based on a change in location of one or more of the electronic devices and a time of day.