Patent ID: 6980993
Filing Date: 2005-12-27
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. In a computer network, a method comprising, receiving a notification directed to a client from an information source, the notification regularized according to a notification schema; determining whether the user should receive the notification based on user preference and context data, and if so, determining a selected device to receive the notification and sending the notification to the selected device, wherein the preference data comprises source preference data regularized according to a source preference schema for access by the source, and main preference data regularized according to a main preference schema for access by an information agent where the notification is recieved, and determining at the information source that the user should receive the notification based on source preference data, and modifying data of the notification at the information agent based on the main preference data before sending the notification output to the selected device.