摘要 |
A system ( 10 ) and method ( 50 ) for notifying an end-user display device of the receipt of an electronic message by an electronic messaging system coupled to a computing device coupled to the end-user display device. The system ( 10 ) includes a computing device, such as a personal computer ( 12 ) or other suitable computing device, and an end-user display device ( 14 ) coupled to the computing device and to one or more other devices, such as audio/video devices ( 44 ). The method ( 50 ) includes generating a notification of the receipt of an electronic message in response to the electronic messaging system receiving an electronic message. The method ( 50 ) also includes transmitting the notification to the end-user display device ( 14 ) and the end-user display device ( 14 ) displaying an alert message corresponding to the notification when the end-user display device ( 14 ) is displaying video content from a video input source other than the computing device ( 12 )
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