Patent ID: 7260610

Claim:
A convergence system, comprising: an information handling system for providing a notification to a user of selected events occurring within the information handling system, the information handling system comprising: a display for displaying a user interface, the user interface capable of displaying a notification representing at least one event occurring in the system; an auxiliary memory containing software that includes at least one message source for detecting an event occurring in an application and generating a message containing selected information about the event; a message dispatch engine for filtering, queuing, and dispatching the at least one message and generating a notification of the event to a user, the message dispatch engine adapted to accept an action by the user through the user interface; and at least one message sink for receiving the message from the message dispatch engine and communicating the action to the application whereupon the application executes the action; a main memory for executing the software loaded from the auxiliary memory; and a processor for running the software and generating the user interface for the display, wherein the information handling system is capable of integrating multiple information and entertainment media.