Patent ID: 7506035
Filing Date: 2009-03-17
Classification: G04G

Abstract:
1. A method for receiving personalized information at an alarm clock device, the method comprising: enabling the alarm clock device to announce alarm clock presence perceivable by a client device that is proximate to the alarm clock device; enabling the alarm clock device to interface with the client device; automatically transmitting a device identifier of the alarm clock device from the alarm clock device to the client device; associating, at the client device, the device identifier of the alarm clock device with a profile identifier for a user identity profile associated with the client device, wherein the user identity profile has previously been established for purposes other than for configuration of the alarm clock device; transmitting the device identifier of the alarm clock and the profile identifier from the client device to a data source remote to the alarm clock; receiving, at the alarm clock device, information from the data source that is personalized to the user identity profile associated with the client device.