Sender-specified notification of incoming data messages

摘要

The application relates to data messaging such as e.g. email and SMS and in particular to a sender-specified mechanism of how to notify the recipient of an incoming message. At present, a sender which determines late in the evening a need to send an important message but does not want to disturb the recipient would have to wait until the next morning to send the message, potentially forgetting to do that. The application solves this problem in that a sender may specify a notification parameter defining a delay and send the parameter in association with the data message to a recipient. The recipient's receiving device (300) evaluates the parameter and notifies in response. Received data messages subject to delayed notification may be hidden by the receiving device or quietly displayed (e.g. as per other received messages) until the expiry of the delay.