Patent ID: 9585119
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
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; collecting a location indicator of the electronic devices in the device group, the location indicator comprising a geographic location; determining an environment type based on the locations of the electronic devices in the notification subgroup; determining a notification priority based on a weighting of the environment type, a notification type, and a notification topic, wherein an order of the notification priority varies based on the weighting of the environment type, the notification type, and the notification topic, and the notification type distinguishes between a short message service notification and an e-mail notification; identifying a primary device from the notification subgroup based on the notification priority defined for each of the electronic devices in the notification subgroup; and triggering generation of a notification output corresponding to the electronic notification on the primary device.