Patent ID: 8144006
Filing Date: 2012-03-27
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for generating and displaying a message alert, said method comprising: storing, on a resource accessible to a server, an alert preference for a subscriber, wherein said alert preference comprises a first alert description for a first device and a second alert description for a second device, wherein said first alert description is related to whether said first device is a private device or a shared device, and when said first device is a private device, said first alert description is further related to the size of a display on said first device, and said second alert description is related to whether said second device is a private device or a shared device, and when said second device is a private device, said second alert description is further related to the size of a display on said second device, wherein a shared device is a device with a device property that said shared device may be used simultaneously by several people and a private device is a device with a device property that said private device may not be used simultaneously by several people; receiving a message for said subscriber at said server; if said first device is detected as present by said server: generating, according to said first alert description, a first message alert associated with said message; and sending said first message alert for said subscriber to said first device; and if said second device is detected as present by said server: generating, according to said second alert description, a second message alert associated with said message; and sending said second message alert for said subscriber to said second device.