Patent ID: 8610564

Claim:
An electronic device comprising: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory containing instructions for providing: an address book application for storing contact information of one or more contacts; a plurality of event generation and handling components associated with different device event types and for generating a notification event upon occurrence of an event handled by the respective event generation and handling component; a profile management component for managing user profiles defining user preferences of notifications associated with different incoming device event types and managing profile exceptions defining one or more notification exceptions to the user profiles, each of the one or more notification exceptions defining one or more of the contacts from the address book application and at least one attribute from the respective contact for selecting the respective notification exception; and a user notification component for generating a user notification for a generated notification event from one or more of the plurality of event generation and handling components, the user notification generated in accordance with one of the one or more profile exceptions when an attribute of the generated notification event matches an attribute associated with the respective exception profile.