Patent ID: 8116439

Claim:
A method for providing a notification to a user, comprising: determining that a notification is to be provided to a user by a server at a monitored endpoint, the determination being based on the server receiving an interrupt request associated with a call intrusion or GUI (Graphical User Interface) notification; determining that the user is currently engaged in a predetermined activity on a computational device at the monitored endpoint; identifying a next boundary in the predetermined activity in which to provide the notification to the user; and providing the notification to the user at the monitored endpoint in temporal proximity to the identified next boundary, wherein: the predetermined activity is providing user input to an application, the notification is a graphical icon, the computational device is a computational component, the next boundary is a pause in a user activity, the user input is at least one of typing on a keyboard, inputting voice commands, inputting commands using a stylus, and inputting commands using a mouse; and the identifying step further comprises: identifying a pause of at least a predetermined duration, wherein the identified next boundary is the identified pause.