State change alerts mechanism

Abstract

A communications system including one or more alert gates and an alert controller. Each alert gate is configured to detect a different type of alert feed corresponding to a particular kind of alert. The alert controller is connected to the alert gates and operable to receive detected alerts from the alert gates and to deliver the detected alerts to a user of the communications system.

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         41 . A method comprising:
 detecting, using one or more processors, an alert;   presenting, to a user associated with the alert, an alert notification representative of the alert;   detecting a selection, by the user, of the alert notification; and   presenting, in response to the detected selection, information associated with the alert than the first alert notification.   
     
     
         42 . A method comprising:
 detecting, using one or more processors, an alert;   presenting, to a user associated with the alert, a alert notification representative of the alert;   detecting an interaction, by the user, with the alert notification; and   presenting, in response to the detected interaction, information associated with the alert than the first alert notification.