Event notification system and method
AssigneeeBuddy Holding B. V.
InventorsPaulo Taylor, Jan-Joost Rueb, Onno Bakker
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Abstract
A technique for user notification involves modifying a title associated with a process to include information about an event that calls for user notification. A method according to the technique may include running a process, processing an event, generating a string of characters that includes information associated with the event, and displaying the string of characters as a title associated with the process. A system constructed according to the technique may include a client, a title array, an event processing engine, and a title provisioning engine.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- running a client process;
- processing an event;
- generating a string of characters that includes information associated with the event;
- displaying the string of characters as a title associated with the client process.
A system comprising:
- a client, including a title string embodied in a computer-readable medium;
- a title array, embodied in a computer readable medium, that includes a plurality of character strings for provisioning to the title string of the client;
- an interface, coupled to the client, for receiving an event and for sending a display associated with the client to a display device;
- an event processing engine, embodied in a computer-readable medium and coupled to the interface, for processing the event;
- a title provisioning engine, embodied in a computer-readable medium and coupled to the event processing engine, for maintaining the title array and controlling which character string of the plurality of character strings to provide to the client.
A method comprising:
- processing an event that calls for user notification;
- generating a first string of characters associated with the event;
- storing the first string of characters in an array;
- providing the first string of characters from the array to a process;
- using the first string of characters as a title in association with the process;
- providing a second string of characters from the array to the process;
- using the second string of characters as a title in association with the process.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.