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Notification platform architecture

  • US 7,249,159 B1
  • Filed: 06/17/2000
  • Issued: 07/24/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computerized system comprising:

  • a mechanism designed to access and store information regarding context information and notification parameters, the notification parameters including at least one of a relevance parameter that indicates whether information given context thereof is relevant to a user'"'"'s context, a novelty parameter that indicates whether information is new to the user, and a fidelity parameter that indicates loss of value of information due to truncation and/or summarization of the information;

    at least one notification source, each source designed to generate notifications;

    at least one notification sink, each sink designed to receive the notifications and having parameters associated with it representing at least one of;

    a) a transmission reliability of the notification sink indicating a likelihood that the user will receive information contained within a notification conveyed to the notification sink,b) a cost of communication of the notification sink indicating a communication cost incurred by the user when receiving information contained within a notification conveyed to the notification sink, andc) a cost of disruption of the notification sink indicating a disruption cost incurred by the user when receiving information contained within a notification conveyed to the notification sink; and

    ,a notification manager designed to convey the notifications generated by the at least one notification source to the at least one notification sink based on the information stored in the mechanism.

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