A method for presenting notifications when annotations are received from a remote device

-51 A METHOD FOR PRESENTING NOTIFICATIONS WHEN ANNOTATIONS ARE RECEIVED FROM A REMOTE DEVICE A method for selecting a display characteristic for a video annotation notification on a destination display device interconnected across a communications network to at least one source device that generates a video annotation includes receiving the annotated video content from the source device, the annotated video content being associated with a source position (SA) in a video production hierarchy. The method determine (910;2010) a destination position (SR) in the video production hierarchy for video content displayed on the destination display device and determines (920,930,940;2020,2030,2040) a correspondence between the determined destination position and the source position associated with the annotated video content to define a relevance value (R1,R2,R3). The method then determines (1000;2031,2041) a content complexity value (K) based on the annotated video content, and selects (830,850; 1200;2032,2042), for the destination display device, one or more display characteristics (Type,Category) of the notification of the video annotation based on the relevance value and the determined content complexity value. IAAa~ana 01 DA nln---i -,- .mov 250 Collaboration Server Communications/ hd 230 221 Fhw DismissI Fig. 2