Patent ID: 7392306
Filing Date: 2008-06-24
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of providing users with alert messages, the method comprising: monitoring receipt of a plurality of alert feeds broadcast from one or more remote servers, the plurality of alert feeds including a group of user-specific alert feeds that are each associated with an event specific to a particular user and a group of general alert feeds that are each associated with an event related to multiple users; receiving information indicating that a user has requested to receive an alert message when receipt of a particular alert feed is detected; receiving an alert feed from a remote server included in the one or more remote servers, the alert feed being one of the monitored plurality of alert feeds; determining whether the received alert feed corresponds to an alert feed in the group of user-specific alert feeds or an alert feed in the group of general alert feeds; conditioned on the received alert feed corresponding to an alert feed in the group of user-specific alert feeds: conditioned on the received alert feed corresponding to an alert feed in the group of general alert feeds: providing the user with an alert message associated with the received alert feed conditioned on determining that the received alert feed is the particular alert feed.