Patent ID: 7325028

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving an email, the email corresponding to a user profile, the user profile including one or more of a notification criteria, a user name, and a delivery vehicle list, wherein the notification criteria includes a sender name; upon receiving the email, activating a notification agent to facilitate providing prioritized notification; generating a notice corresponding to the email via the notification agent, wherein a name associated with the email matches the sender name of the notification criteria, wherein the notice is customized according to contents of the user profile and sent to a device associated with a user; determining a delivery vehicle associated with a device from the delivery vehicle list, wherein the delivery vehicle includes one or more of Global System for Mobiles (GSM), Short Messaging Service (SMS), and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP); if the device uses the SMTP, sending the customized notice corresponding to the email to the device via the SMTP; and if the device does not use the SMTP and use the GSM, sending the customized notice corresponding to the email to the device via the SMS.