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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2007
Kavita K. Agrawal, Boulder, CO (US);
William K. Bodin, Austin, TX (US);
Gregory W. Rybczynski, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Derral C. Thorson, Austin, TX (US);
Kavita K. Agrawal, Boulder, CO (US);
William K. Bodin, Austin, TX (US);
Gregory W. Rybczynski, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Derral C. Thorson, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Notifying a user of a device event, including receiving a device event, associating the device event with a user, receiving an RFID signal from a user's RFID tag, determining the user's location in dependence upon the RFID signal, selecting a user notification appliance in dependence upon the user's location, and notifying the user of the device event with the selected user notification appliance. In typical embodiments, associating the device event with a user also includes reading a user ID from a device record for the device. In typical embodiments, associating the device event with a user also includes identifying the location of the device, identifying a previous location of the user, and associating the device event with a user in dependence upon the location of the device and the previous location of the user.