STATE CHANGE ALERTS MECHANISM

• US 20130198649A1
• Filed: 03/13/2013
• Published: 08/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Austin-Lane, Christopher Emery
• Application Number:
  US13/800,946
• Publication Number:
  US 20130198649A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/744
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/046 Interoperability with other network applications or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/226 Delivery according to priorities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A communications system including one or more alert gates and an alert controller. Each alert gate is configured to detect a different type of alert feed corresponding to a particular kind of alert. The alert controller is connected to the alert gates and operable to receive detected alerts from the alert gates and to deliver the detected alerts to a user of the communications system.

Claims

1-40. -40. (canceled)

41. A method comprising:

detecting, using one or more processors, an alert;

presenting, to a user associated with the alert, an alert notification representative of the alert;

detecting a selection, by the user, of the alert notification; and

presenting, in response to the detected selection, information associated with the alert than the first alert notification.

42. A method comprising:

detecting, using one or more processors, an alert;

presenting, to a user associated with the alert, a alert notification representative of the alert;

detecting an interaction, by the user, with the alert notification; and

presenting, in response to the detected interaction, information associated with the alert than the first alert notification.