Notification System and Method for a Mobile Data Communication Device
AssigneeResearch In Motion Limited
InventorsHarry Major, Krishna K. Pathiyal, Gary P. Mousseau, Mihal Lazaridis
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Abstract
A message notification scheme operable at a mobile data communication device, comprising one or more of the following: receiving data items redirected from a computer system; determining if the data items include characterization information based on a characterization scheme; and if so, extracting the characterization information and comparing the characterization information to a plurality of stored notification schemes at the mobile data communication device to provide an appropriate alert associated with a select notification scheme.
Claims14
A message notification method operable at a mobile data communication device, comprising:
- receiving data items redirected from a computer system;
- determining if the data items include characterization information based on a characterization scheme;
- and
- if so, extracting the characterization information and comparing the characterization information to a plurality of stored notification schemes at the mobile data communication device to provide an appropriate alert associated with a select notification scheme.
A mobile data communication device, comprising:
- means for receiving data items redirected from a computer system;
- means for determining if the data items include characterization information based on a characterization scheme;
- means for storing a plurality of notification schemes;
- and
- means for extracting the characterization information from the data items and comparing the characterization information to the plurality of stored notification schemes to provide an appropriate alert associated with a select notification scheme.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.