Methods, systems and computer products for download status notification

摘要

Methods, systems, and computer products for download notification including identifying content for download, requesting a download of the content to a device and requesting a notification related to the status of the download.

主权项

1. A method for download notification, the method comprising:
identifying a movie; requesting, by a user device, a download of the movie to the user device; configuring a notification application of the user device to provide a notification to a user related to a status of the download, wherein the notification application monitors the status of the download; before the download is complete, receiving at the user device an alert in a notification message for display to the user on a display of the user device, in which the notification message indicates that the download will be viewable on the user device when a certain buffer is attained prior to completion of the download; and during the download and while the notification application monitors the download, receiving an alert in another notification message displayed on the display of the user device in a notification window, in which the another notification message asks on the display of the user device whether the user desires to change notification preferences at that point for notifying the user about the status of the download of the movie; wherein the notification preferences are an identification of a notification device upon which the user desires to receive display of the status of the download of the movie including a progress of the download, successful conclusion, and stopped; and wherein the notification device to receive display of the status of the download of the movie is initially the user device, and the user configures the notification application to change display of the status of the download of the movie from the user device initially used to a new notification device.