Method and system for centralized user notification and application execution control

• US 20070055770A1
• Filed: 04/18/2006
• Published: 03/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Shenfield, Michael, Vitanov, Kamen, Bibr, Viera, Goring, Bryan, Rogers, Jeffrey, Karmakar, Srimantee
• Granted Patent: US 8,082,292 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like

Abstract

A method for providing application-defined notifications to a user upon receipt of an event at a device is provided. A list of applications is centrally maintained, the list defining, for each application, event identification and corresponding event notification. Whenever an event is received and identified, the corresponding event notification for the event identification is dispatched to the user.

Claims

1. A method for providing application-defined notifications to a user upon receipt of an event, comprising:

centrally maintaining a list of applications for said user, said list defining, for each application, event identification and corresponding event notification;

receiving said event, comprising event identification; and

centrally dispatching to said user said corresponding event notification for said event identification.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising:

receiving from said device an action in response to said notification;

requesting that said application performs an operation corresponding to said action.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said device comprises a wireless handheld device.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said maintaining a list of applications comprises:

for each application, registering event identification and said corresponding event notifications at a time of installing said application.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said user notification comprises at least one of emitting a sound, vibrating, display of a dialog with text and appearance of an icon on a main screen of said device.

6. A system for providing application-defined event notifications to a user upon receipt of an event at a device, said system comprising:

a communication module for receiving said event;

an event processor module for determining event identification information from said event;

a storage module for storing event identification for registered applications and event notification corresponding thereto; and

a control module for receiving said event identification from said event processor module, retrieving said event notification from said storage module and providing said event notification to said user.

7. A computer-readable medium on which is stored a method for providing application-defined notifications to a user upon receipt of an event, said method comprising:

centrally maintaining a list of applications for said user, said list defining, for each application, event identification and corresponding event notification;

receiving said event, comprising event identification; and

centrally dispatching to said user said corresponding event notification for said event identification.

8. The computer-readable medium as claimed in claim 7, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving from said device an action in response to said notification;

requesting that said application performs an operation corresponding to said action.

9. The computer-readable medium as claimed in claim 7, wherein said device comprises a wireless handheld device.

10. The computer-readable medium as claimed in claim 7, wherein said maintaining a list of applications comprises:

for each application, registering event identification and said corresponding event notifications at a time of installing said application.

11. The computer-readable medium as claimed in claim 7, wherein said user notification comprises at least one of emitting a sound, vibrating, display of a dialog with text and appearance of an icon on a main screen of said device.