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Alert mechanism for notifying multiple user devices sharing a connected-data-set

US8112549B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

YAHOO HOLDINGS, INC. · US

Inventors

Venkatachary Srinivasan · Sunnyvale, US
Marco Boerries · Los Altos Hills, US
Matthias Breuer · Hamburg, DE
Markus Meyer · Annaberg-Buchholz, DE
Torsten Schulz · Pinneberg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 14, 2005
Grant date	Feb 7, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 2, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04L51/214
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

System and method for notifying a user status of communications between a server and the user having one or more user devices in a communication network are disclosed. The system includes a server for communicating with the user, where the server includes a connected-data-set and the one or more user devices share portions of the connected-data-set, logic for monitoring communications between the server and the one or more user devices for a predetermined set of notification conditions, and logic for sending a notification message to the one or more user devices when a notification condition is detected.

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