Patent ID: 8484335

Claim:
A download notification method, comprising: identifying a movie for download by a user device; requesting, by the user device, a download of the movie to the user device; configuring a notification application of the user device to provide a notification to a user related to a status of the download, wherein the notification application is operative to monitor the status of the download; before the download is complete, receiving at the user device an alert in a notification message for display to the user on a display of the user device, in which the notification message indicates that the download will be viewable on the user device when a certain buffer is attained prior to completion of the download; and during the download and while the notification application monitors the download, receiving an alert in another notification message for display on the display of the user device in a notification window, in which the another notification message asks on the display of the user device whether the user desires to change notification preferences at that point for notifying the user about the status of the download of the movie; the notification preferences being an identification of a notification device upon which the user desires to receive display of the status of the download of the movie including a progress of the download, successful conclusion, and stopped; wherein the notification device to receive display of the status of the download of the movie is initially the user device, and the user configures the notification application to change the display of the status of the download of the movie from the user device initially used to a new notification device.