Notification System and Method for a Mobile Data Communication Device

• US 20080288604A1
• Filed: 10/27/2007
• Published: 11/20/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/1998
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Mousseau, Gary P., Pathiyal, Krishna K., Lazaridis, Mihal, Major, Harry
• Application Number:
  US11/925,811
• Publication Number:
  US 20080288604A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/207
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting

Abstract

A message notification scheme operable at a mobile data communication device, comprising one or more of the following: receiving data items redirected from a computer system; determining if the data items include characterization information based on a characterization scheme; and if so, extracting the characterization information and comparing the characterization information to a plurality of stored notification schemes at the mobile data communication device to provide an appropriate alert associated with a select notification scheme.

Claims

1. A message notification method operable at a mobile data communication device, comprising:

receiving data items redirected from a computer system;

determining if the data items include characterization information based on a characterization scheme; and

if so, extracting the characterization information and comparing the characterization information to a plurality of stored notification schemes at the mobile data communication device to provide an appropriate alert associated with a select notification scheme.

2. The message notification method of claim 1, wherein the data items are selected from at least one of e-mail messages, calendar events, meeting notifications, address entries, journal entries, personal reminders, and instant messaging notifications.

3. The message notification method of claim 1, wherein the characterization information comprises at least one of a unique data item identifier and a unique priority ranking identifier in a header field of a particular data item.

4. The message notification method of claim 1, further comprising:

upon determining that the received data items do not include characterization information, characterizing the received data items based on a local characterization scheme executing on the mobile data communication device; and

applying a corresponding notification scheme based on reviewing the plurality of stored notification schemes at the mobile data communication device.

5. The message notification method of claim 2, wherein the alert comprises at least one of an audible alert, a visual alert and a vibration alert.

6. The message notification method of claim 5, wherein the audible alert comprises one or more tunes.

7. The message notification method of claim 5, wherein the audible alert comprises one or more verbal notifications.

8. A mobile data communication device, comprising:

means for receiving data items redirected from a computer system;

means for determining if the data items include characterization information based on a characterization scheme;

means for storing a plurality of notification schemes; and

means for extracting the characterization information from the data items and comparing the characterization information to the plurality of stored notification schemes to provide an appropriate alert associated with a select notification scheme.

9. The mobile data communication device of claim 8, wherein the data items are selected from at least one of e-mail messages, calendar events, meeting notifications, address entries, journal entries, personal reminders, and instant messaging notifications.

10. The mobile data communication device of claim 8, wherein the characterization information comprises at least one of a unique data item identifier and a unique priority ranking identifier in a header field of a particular data item.

11. The mobile data communication device of claim 8, further comprising:

means, operable responsive to determining that the received data items do not include characterization information, for characterizing the received data items based on a local characterization scheme executing on the mobile data communication device; and

means for applying a corresponding notification scheme based on reviewing the plurality of notification schemes stored at the mobile data communication device.

12. The mobile data communication device of claim 8, wherein the alert comprises at least one of an audible alert, a visual alert and a vibration alert.

13. The mobile data communication device of claim 12, wherein the audible alert comprises one or more tunes.

14. The mobile data communication device of claim 12, wherein the audible alert comprises one or more verbal notifications.