Patent ID: 9747783
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: G08B

Claim:
1. A method for an alert service, comprising: receiving, at the alert service, an alert message from an alert provider; determining, using control circuitry, a user designated to receive the alert message; assigning, using the control circuitry, an alert level to the alert message based on settings for the alert provider that are associated with the user; sending, from the alert service, the alert message to the user designated to receive the alert message; prior to generating for display content of the alert message, determining whether the settings for the alert provider that are associated with the user permit automatically generating for display the content of the alert message; determining that the settings for the alert provider that are associated with the user do not permit automatically generating for display the content of the alert message; based on determining that the settings for the alert provider that are associated with the user do not permit automatically generating for display the content of the alert message: