Notification system for personal and shared devices

A device comprising:

• a processor operable to:
• determine that a notification is to be transmitted to at least one shared device of a household, said shared device comprising a display screen and being shared by a plurality of members of said household;
• identify a plurality of personal devices currently located in said household and turned on;
• and
• retrieve a user profile associated with each of said identified plurality of personal devices currently located in said household and turned on, each user profile defining a notification format to use for one of said identified plurality of personal devices and comprising at least one parameter to use for determining a highest priority user profile;
• select a first notification format to use for a first notification, said selected first notification format corresponding to the highest priority user profile associated with a personal device from said identified plurality of personal devices currently located in said household and turned on;
• select a second notification format to use for a second notification, said second notification format corresponding to a user profile other than the highest priority user profile;
• and
• a network interface operable to transmit said fir notification in said selected first notification format to the highest priority user profile and said second notification in said selected second notification format corresponding to a user profile other than the highest priority user profile to said at least one shared device for displaying, at the same time, said first notification in said selected first notification format and said second notification in said selected second notification format.

One or more computer readable non-transitory tangible storage media encoded with software comprising computer executable instructions and when the software is executed the software is operable to:

• determine that a notification is to be transmitted to at least one shared device of a household, said shared device comprising a display screen and being shared by a plurality of members of said household;
• identify a plurality of personal devices currently located in said household and turned on;
• retrieve a user profile associated with each of said identified plurality of personal devices currently located in said household and turned on, each user profile defining a notification format to use for one of said identified plurality of personal devices and comprising at least one parameter to use for determining a highest priority user profile;
• select a first notification format to use for said first notification, said selected first notification format corresponding to the highest priority user profile associated with a personal device from said identified plurality of personal devices currently located in said household and turned on;
• select a second notification format to use for a second notification, said second notification format corresponding to a user profile other than the highest priority user profile;
• and
• transmit said first notification in said selected first notification format to the highest priority user profile and said second notification in said selected second notification format corresponding to a user profile other than the highest priority user profile to said at least one shared device for displaying, at the same time, said first notification in said selected first notification format and said second notification in said selected second notification format.