Patent ID: 9685050
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: G08B,H04M

Claim:
1. A method updating a notification preference of a system, the method comprising: detecting, by a detector of the system, a remote alert; identifying, by a disambiguation module of the system, at least one feature of the remote alert; determining, by the disambiguation module of the system, a plurality of alerts available to the system; mapping, by the disambiguation module of the system, the at least one feature of the remote alert and the available alerts to a concept map; and selecting, by the disambiguation module of the system, an alert from the plurality of available alerts using the mapping, wherein a selected alert changes a notification preference of the system, wherein the selected alert changes the notification preference of the system, and wherein the selection of the selected alert from the plurality of available alerts using the mapping further comprises selecting the selected alert based on a measure of semantic distance between the remote alert and each of the alerts available to the system.