Patent ID: 8819277
Filing Date: 2014-08-26
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for delivering an alert, comprising: determining that an alert should be delivered, wherein the alert corresponds to a message that includes message data; before sending the alert, sending the message data corresponding to the alert to each of two or more devices capable of receiving the message; receiving device data corresponding to the two or more devices, wherein the device data is transmitted by each of the two or more devices in response to the device receiving the message data corresponding to the alert; calculating a score for each of the two or more devices based on the device data received from the two or more devices and corresponding to the two or more devices; and sending the alert to the device having the highest calculated score, wherein the message data corresponding to the alert has previously been delivered to the device that receives the alert before the alert is sent to the device.