Patent ID: 6907455

Claim:
A method for notifying a telephony device over a network of an occurrence of an event detected by an independent process, comprising the steps of: receiving an event indicator over the network in response to the occurrence of the event, the event indicator capable of activating a session of a web application based on an application-state data record created by the independent process, the event indicator comprising a uniform resource locator (URL) request identifying a persistent extensible markup language (XML) document, the persistent extensible markup language document comprising i) an identifier of the telephony device, ii) a reference to an application-defining XML document, and iii) event information based on the occurrence of the event; activating the session of the web application based on the application-state data record in response to receiving the event indicator; and providing an event notification over the network, the event notification suitable for providing audio output to the telephony device.