Patent ID: 7249159

Claim:
A computerized system comprising: a mechanism designed to access and store information regarding context information and notification parameters, the notification parameters including at least one of a relevance parameter that indicates whether information given context thereof is relevant to a user's context, a novelty parameter that indicates whether information is new to the user, and a fidelity parameter that indicates loss of value of information due to truncation and/or summarization of the information; at least one notification source, each source designed to generate notifications; at least one notification sink, each sink designed to receive the notifications and having parameters associated with it representing at least one of: a) a transmission reliability of the notification sink indicating a likelihood that the user will receive information contained within a notification conveyed to the notification sink, b) a cost of communication of the notification sink indicating a communication cost incurred by the user when receiving information contained within a notification conveyed to the notification sink, and c) a cost of disruption of the notification sink indicating a disruption cost incurred by the user when receiving information contained within a notification conveyed to the notification sink; and, a notification manager designed to convey the notifications generated by the at least one notification source to the at least one notification sink based on the information stored in the mechanism.