User-definable communications methods and systems
AssigneeArrivalStar, Inc.
InventorM. Kelly Jones
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Abstract
Notification methods and systems are provided. One such method, among others, can be broadly summarized by the following steps: enabling a user to define at least two communications methods for receiving notifications relating to travel of a mobile thing; enabling a user to define one or more criteria when each communications method should be used as opposed to one or more others; monitoring travel data associated with the mobile thing; and providing a notification using one or more of the communications methods, based upon the criteria. A notification system, among others, would have a mechanism for performing each of the foregoing steps.
Claims11
A notification method, comprising:
- enabling a user to define at least two communications methods for receiving notifications relating to travel of a mobile thing;
- enabling a user to define one or more criteria when each of the communications methods should be used as opposed to the one or more others;
- monitoring travel data associated with the mobile thing;
- and
- providing a notification using one or more of the communications methods, based upon the criteria.
A notification system, comprising:
- means for enabling a user to define at least two communications methods for receiving notifications relating to travel of a mobile thing;
- means for enabling a user to define one or more criteria when a communications method should be used as opposed to one or more others;
- means for monitoring travel data associated with the mobile thing;
- and
- means for providing a notification using one or more of the communications methods, based upon the criteria.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.