Research in Motion Corporation

Blackberry Corporation

Darin White

Andrew Douglas Bocking

Ronald Scotte Zinn

Cassidy Paul Gentle

Ian Milligan

Mihal Lazaridis

Harry Richmond Major

Scotte Zinn

Anthony George Burns

Tony Burns

Cassidy Research In Motion Limited Gentle

Cassidy Gentle

Andrew Research In Motion Limited Bocking

Tony Research In Motion Limited Burns

Ian Research In Motion Limited Milligan

Scotte Research In Motion Limited Zinn

An electronic device and method for providing customizing notifications is disclosed. Event generation and handling components are associated with different device event types and for generating a notification event upon occurrence of an event handled by the respective event generation and handling component is provided. Profile management component manages user profiles defining user preferences of notifications associated with different incoming device event types and managing profile exceptions defining one or more notification exceptions to the user profiles. A user notification component generates a user notification for a generated notification event from one or more of the plurality of event generation and handling components in accordance with one of the one or more profile exceptions if a condition of the generated notification event matches a condition of the profile exception or matches with an active user profile of the user profiles that is selected for specifying current user preferences for notifications.

System and method for customizing notifications in a mobile electronic device

A mobile electronic device has a notification mechanism for notifying a user of device events in accordance with an active notification profile defining notification options and one or more exception notification profiles defining notification options based on specified attributes of a device event. A mechanism is provided for identifying one or more attributes in an incoming device event and for overriding the active notification profile with one of the exception notification profiles that has attributes corresponding to the identified attributes. The user is thus notified in accordance with notification options specified in the exception profile of the device.

A handheld communication device includes a single notification element, which may be, for instance, a plurality of light emitting diodes packaged together, and a microprocessor for controlling the single notification element such that the single notification element presents a temporal color pattern to indicate a state of the handheld communication device.

Single point notification for a mobile device

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Waterloo, Canada

Darin White