METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING PLURAL NOTIFICATIONS FROM PLURAL SOURCES

• US 20100162114A1
• Filed: 02/18/2009
• Published: 06/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Blackboard Connect Incorporated (Blackboard Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Blackboard Connect Incorporated (Blackboard Incorporated)
• Inventors: ROTH, Joshua
• Granted Patent: US 9,280,759 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/715
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A system for displaying at least one notification from at least one source includes a processor configured to access the at least one notification from the at least one source, the at least one notification comprising content and geographical information. The processor is further configured to display the notification on a map based on the geographical information of the notification. A method for displaying at least one notification from at least one source is also provided.

Claims

1. A system for displaying plural notifications from plural sources, the system comprising a processor configured to:

access the plural notifications from the plural sources, the plural notifications comprising content and geographical information; and

display the notification on a map based on the geographical information of the notification.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one source is at least one of an alert and notification system, a radio source, a television source, an XML RSS feed, or a data protocol format.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the data protocol format comprises the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP).

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the plural notifications is provided to the at least one source by at least one of an institution, an agency and a company.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the notification corresponds to at least one of a past, present and future notification.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

display the content of the notification in response to a request for the content.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the notification further comprises class information.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the processor is further configured to:

display the notification on the map based on the class information of the notification.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to display the notification on the map as an indicator, which is positioned on the map based on the geographical information of the notification.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to display the indicator to indicate at least one of a class of the notification and an urgency of the notification.

11. A method for displaying plural notifications from at least one source, comprising:

accessing the plural notifications from the at least one source, the plural notifications comprising content and geographical information; and

displaying the notification on a map based on the geographical information of the notification.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the at least one source is at least one of an alert and notification system, a radio source, a television source, an XML RSS feed, or a data protocol format.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the data protocol format comprises the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP).

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the plural notifications is provided to the at least one source by at least one of an institution, an agency and a company.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the notification corresponds to at least one of a past, present and future notification.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

displaying the content of the notification in response to a request for the content.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein the notification further comprises class information.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

displaying the notification on the map based on the class information of the notification.

20. The machine-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the at least one source is at least one of an alert and notification system, a radio source, a television source and an XML RSS feed.

19. A machine-readable medium encoded with instructions for displaying plural notifications from at least one source, the instructions comprising code for:

accessing the plural notifications from the at least one source, the plural notifications comprising content and geographical information; and

displaying the notification on a map based on the geographical information of the notification.