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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2006
Applicant:
Renjit Tom Thomas, Vancouver, WA (US);
Inventor:
Renjit Tom Thomas, Vancouver, WA (US);
Assignee:
Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc., Camas, WA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 1/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
With a growing number of personal and shared devices that may be connected to the Internet, the number of devices on which a person may receive a message increases. Privacy in message delivery may become an issue when a message may be received on a shared device, for example, a television. Aspects of the present invention relate to systems and methods for displaying message alerts on shared and private devices according to user preferences.