Patent ID: 8879704

Claim:
A method for notifying users of events, said method comprising: monitoring, by a computer, scheduled user activity of a user, said monitoring based on user notification information in a storage location, said user notification information pertaining to a scheduled event; in response to a detection, from said monitoring, of a change in the scheduled user activity, said computer ascertaining that the change necessitates notifying the user of the scheduled event due to the change impacting whether the user can participate in the scheduled event; in response to said ascertaining, said computer notifying the user of the scheduled event wherein said notifying the user comprises transmitting to the user via a text message a number to call to connect to the scheduled event, the transmitted number being included as part of the text message; and said computer modifying the user notification information in the storage location, based on the detected change in the user activity, in response to having received an instruction from the user to change the user notification information in the storage location.