Today, pervasive computing often centers around accessing web information from
handheld devices. One attractive alternative is for a user to subscribe to relevant information and
to be notified when such information becomes available. In this paper, we describe a system that
allows users to specify a wide variety of interesting, and possibly complex, events, which may
require the system to aggregate data from numerous content sources. Furthermore, because users
typically have different devices available to them at different times, the system delivers the
message to one or more of the users’ devices based upon their general preferences as well as their
present context. Our Intelligent Notification System reduces the demand for user attention by
delivering the requested information to the user on a convenient device in a timely and
appropriate fashion.
By: Vincent Bazinette, Norman H. Cohen, Maria R. Ebling, Guerney D. H. Hunt, Hui Lei, Apratim Purakayastha, Gregory Stewart, Luke Wong, Danny L. Yeh
Published in: RC22089 in 2001
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