Context aware message notification

• US 20070180036A1
• Filed: 11/29/2006
• Published: 08/02/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Gomez, Laurent, Wrona, Konrad, Hebert, Cedric, Ulmer, Cedric
• Application Number:
  US11/606,430
• Publication Number:
  US 20070180036A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

A method for managing message notification to a user, comprising the operations of: receiving a message addressed to the user; obtaining context information based on the context the user is in; obtaining a user'"'"'s preference based on the obtained context information; depending on the obtained user'"'"'s preference, selectively generating and delivering a message notification to the user for notifying the user of the received message.

Claims

1. A method for managing message notification to a user, comprising:

receiving a message addressed to the user;

obtaining context information based on the context the user is in;

obtaining a user'"'"'s preference based on the obtained context information; and

depending on the obtained user'"'"'s preference, selectively generating and delivering a message notification to the user for notifying the user of the received message.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the obtaining of the context information and the obtaining of the user'"'"'s preference are performed periodically.

3. A method according to claim 2, further including setting a message notification function depending on the obtained user'"'"'s preference and wherein the selectively generating and delivering the message notification is performed depending on the set message notification function.

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein the setting of the message notification function is performed by an API, a modification of a properties file or native methods.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein the obtaining of the context information and the obtaining of the user'"'"'s preference are performed substantially every time a message is received.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein the obtaining of the context information comprises determining at least one of location information, environmental information, temporal information, user information and computing information.

7. A method according to claim 1, wherein the delivering of the message notification includes displaying a message notification to user and/or a operation of outputting a sound to the user.

8. A method according to claim 1, wherein the received message is an email message.

9. A method according to claim 1, wherein the received message is a workflow notification.

10. A computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program containing computer readable instructions which, when loaded and executed in a suitable computing environment, performs a method according to claim 1.

11. A computer program product containing computer readable instructions which, when loaded and executed in a suitable computing environment, performs a method according to claim 1.

12. Apparatus for managing message notification to a user, comprising:

an application program to receive a message addressed to the user and to generate and deliver message notifications to a user;

a context aware message notification architecture comprising

a context-aware message notification component to obtain context information based on the context the user is in; and

a user preference component to obtain a user'"'"'s preference based on the obtained context information;

wherein a message notification is selectively generated and delivered to the user depending on the obtained user'"'"'s preference.