Patent ID: 8082292
Filing Date: 2011-12-20
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for use in a mobile communication device providing application-defined notifications to a user upon receipt of an event in the mobile communication device, comprising: maintaining, in a system container of an application runtime environment of the mobile communication device, a mapping of applications for said user, said mapping comprising, for each application, at least one event identification and one or more corresponding event notifications; receiving an event in a communication module of the system container; extracting, from the received event, code identifying the event and an identification of an application associated with the event; based on said mapping of applications maintained in the system container and the code identifying the event and the identification of an application associated with the event, retrieving a corresponding event notification; and dispatching from the system container said corresponding event notification, said event notification being dispatchable even when a corresponding application is not running for said corresponding event notification.