Graphical message notification
AssigneeNortel Networks Limited
InventorsBrian Cruickshank, Paul Michael Brennan, John Eric Lumsden
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Abstract
The invention provides a method, apparatus and system for providing an addressee of a stored message with a graphical notification associated with a source of the stored message. In general terms, a communications device of the addressee is presented with the graphical notification in the form of an information signal which relates the stored message to at least one graphical image associated with the source of the stored message.
Claims77
A method of indicating a receipt of a stored message from a source, the method comprising:
- generating an information signal relating the stored message to at least one graphical image associated with the source;
- transmitting the information signal to a communications device associated with an addressee of the stored message;
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- indicating the receipt of the stored message in response to a receipt of the information signal by the communications device.
An apparatus for indicating a receipt of a stored message from a source, the apparatus comprising:
- a generator configured to generate an information signal relating the stored message to at least one graphical image associated with the source;
- a transmitter configured to initiate transmission of the information signal to a communications device associated with an addressee of the stored message;
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- an indicator configured to indicate the receipt of the stored message in response to a receipt of the information signal by the communications device.
A computer readable medium including codes for:
- (a) directing a network computer to generate an information signal relating a stored message to at least one graphical image associated with a source of the stored message;
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- (b) directing the network computer to transmit the information signal to a communications device associated with an addressee of the stored message to indicate the receipt of the stored message.
A method of indicating receipt of a stored message from a source, the method comprising:
- generating an information signal relating the stored message to at least one of:
- (i) a graphical image associated with the source;
- and (ii) a digital representation of a sound waveform associated with the source;
- transmitting the information signal to a communications device associated with an addressee of the stored message;
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- indicating the receipt of the stored message in response to a receipt of the information signal by the communications device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.