Patent ID: 8682983

Claim:
A method for delivery of an email message and an audio/video attachment to an internet protocol television enabled display device, the method comprising: receiving at a back-end processing system of an internet protocol television gateway the email message and the audio/video attachment from an email account, the back-end processing system in communication with a preference server storing user notification display preferences, the back-end processing system applying the user notification display preferences to the email message, the user notification display preferences identifying preferences for a duration of a notification message, wherein the user notification display preferences are used to configure the notification message to be displayed for a predetermined time interval; saving the email message and the audio/video attachment, wherein saving the audio/video attachment includes encoding the audio/video attachment using a media encoder to convert the audio/video attachment to a useable format; analyzing the email message to determine if an internet protocol television account is associated with data within the email message; determining a plurality of set top box identifiers, the set top box identifiers being associated with the internet protocol television account; and transmitting through a front-end processing system of the internet protocol television gateway a notification to set top boxes corresponding to the set top box identifiers associated with the internet protocol television account in the event that the data within the email message is determined to be associated with the internet protocol television account; wherein the back-end processing system performs image analysis to identify and analyze the contents of the audio/video attachment according to user specified pattern matching and pattern recognition criteria.