Method for selectively sending a notification to an instant messaging device

• US 20080046510A1
• Filed: 11/05/2002
• Published: 02/21/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Powers, Craig R., Nicholls, Geoffrey Deane Owen, Gardner, Kenneth C., Netsch, Tana Christine, Beauchamp, Tim J.
• Granted Patent: US 7,912,899 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like

Abstract

A computer-implemented method for sending a message. The computer-implemented method also includes monitoring, using a first set of rules, for an event that triggers a message to be transmitted. The computer-implemented method further includes ascertaining, using a set of notification rules and at least one of a first present parameter and a first status parameter, whether a first user is capable of reviewing the message substantially immediately after the message is transmitted to the first user if the message is transmitted to the first user, the first present parameter indicating whether a first instant messaging client associated with the first user is currently online, the first status parameter indicating whether the first user is available for the reviewing. The computer-implemented method also includes transmitting the message to the first instant messaging client associated with first user if the first user is ascertained to be capable of reviewing the message substantially immediately after the message is transmitted to the first user.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for sending a message on a network, comprising:

determining a source of a set of data elements;

transforming said set of data elements, based in part on a set of rules, from a first representation of said set of data elements to a second representation of said set of data elements;

monitoring said second representation using said set of rules, for an event that triggers an event notification message to be transmitted in real time;

prior to transmitting said event notification message to a first designated wireless device, ascertaining if said first designated wireless device, to which said event notification message is to be transmitted, is present on said network based on information received via said network;

if said first designated wireless device is ascertained to be present on said network based on said information received via said network, transmitting said event notification message to said first designated wireless device; and

if said first designated wireless device is ascertained to be not present on said network based on said information received via said network, transmitting said event notification message to said second designated wireless device instead of said first designated wireless device, wherein said set of data elements pertain to information other than presence of said first designated device or said second designated device.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein said set of rules includes rules for monitoring active data.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 wherein at least one of said first designated wireless device and said second designated wireless device is associated with a private instant messaging system.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3 wherein said second representation is an active data store.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 wherein said first representation is an enterprise data source.

5. (canceled)

7-23. -23. (canceled)

24. An apparatus for sending a message on a network, comprising:

means for determining a source of a set of data elements;

means for transforming said set of data elements, based in part on a set of rules, from a first representation of said set of data elements to a second representation of said set of data elements;

means for monitoring said second representation using said set of rules, for an event that triggers an event notification message to be transmitted in real time;

means for ascertaining prior to transmitting said event notification message to a first designated wireless device, if said first designated wireless device, to which said event notification message is to be transmitted, is present on said network based on information received via said network;

means for transmitting, if said first designated wireless device is ascertained to be present on said network based on said information received via said network, said event notification message to said first designated wireless device; and

means for transmitting, if said first designated wireless device is ascertained to be not present on said network based on said information received via said network, said event notification message to said second designated wireless device instead of said first designated wireless device, wherein said set of data elements pertain to information other than presence of said first designated device or said second designated device.

25. The apparatus of claim 24, wherein at least one of said first designated wireless device and said second designated wireless device is an instant messaging (IM) client.

26. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein at least one of said first designated wireless device and said second designated wireless device is a rich client.

27. The apparatus of claim 26, wherein at least one of said first designated wireless device and said second designated wireless device is a private instant messaging client.

28. The apparatus of claim 27, wherein at least one of said first designated wireless device and said second designated wireless device is a SMS phone.

29. The apparatus of claim 28, wherein at least one of said first designated wireless device and said second designated wireless device is a personal computer.

30. The apparatus of claim 29, at least one of said first designated wireless device and said second designated wireless device is a PDA.

31. The apparatus of claim 30, wherein said alert is one of a SMS message and an email message.

32. The apparatus of claim 31, wherein said alert is encrypted prior to being transferred to one of said first device and said second device.

33. The apparatus of claim 32, wherein said encryption is one of DES and Triple DES.