Event notification system and method
AssigneeeBuddy Holding B.V.
InventorsPaulo Taylor, Jan-Joost C. 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:
- processing an event that calls for user notification;
- generating an event notification for the event;
- storing the event notification in an array;
- providing the event notification from the array to a process executed by a processor;
- using the event notification as a title in association with the process;
- providing an alternative title from the array to the process;
- using the alternative title as a title in association with the process.
A system comprising:
- a means for processing an event that calls for user notification;
- a means for generating an event notification for the event;
- a means for storing the event notification in an array;
- a means for providing the event notification from the array to a process;
- a means for using the event notification as a title in association with the process;
- a means for providing an alternative title from the array to the process;
- a means for using the alternative title as a title in association with the process.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.