Patent ID: 8352961

Claim:
A method for notifying a user of a small computer device of notification events with predetermined notification types depending on the user's environment and corresponding to stored notification profiles, the method comprising: storing two or more notification profiles for each of one or more users, such that each notification profile is assigned a predetermined environmental notification mode from a selection of one or more environmental notification modes and such that each notification profile has one or more notification events from a selection of one or more notification events and such that each of the notification events is assigned at least one notification type from a selection of one or more notification types; displaying an environmental notification mode menu comprising two or more modes of the one or more environmental modes; displaying a notification event menu comprising the one or more notification events; displaying a notification type menu comprising the one or more notification types; receiving a first selection signal to select a first notification mode from the displayed notification mode menu; applying the first notification mode to the small computer device such that the device remains in the first notification mode until another notification mode is selected; as a result of applying the first notification mode, notifying the user of notification events with assigned notification types in accordance with the notification profile assigned to the first notification mode; receiving a second selection signal to select a second notification mode; applying the second notification mode to the small computer device such that the device remains in the second notification mode until another notification mode is selected; and as a result of applying the second notification mode, notifying the user of notification events with assigned notification types in accordance with the notification profile assigned to the second notification mode.