Patent ID: 8719348

Claim:
A message notification method comprising: electronically receiving a new message at a first inbox of a recipient, the new message having a sender-forced trigger and, embedded within the new message, a request for a triggering event to be set at a messaging client device of the recipient such that a notification message for the new message is sent by the messaging client device to a second inbox of the recipient if the triggering event occurs in accordance to a priority ranking order and if the sender-forced trigger is denied based on a sender-forced trigger setting previously defined by the recipient; setting, via a processor, the triggering event at the messaging client device of the recipient in accordance with the priority ranking order if the sender-forced trigger is denied, wherein the priority ranking order is previously defined by the recipient and indicates which requests for triggering events to send a notification message are to be granted responsive to receiving the new message; sending a denial notification to a sender of the new message in response to the sender-forced trigger being denied; and sending a notification message to the second inbox in response to occurrence of the triggering event and the triggering event being associated with a priority ranking having a higher priority ranking than associated priority rankings of any other triggering events that have also occurred, wherein the request for the triggering event includes a time period specified by the sender of the new message, wherein the time period is timed upon receipt of the new message by the messaging client device, wherein the triggering event is triggered responsive to the new message not being viewed at the messaging client device within the time period.