Method and apparatus for providing notification

• US 10,136,409 B2
• Filed: 07/17/2015
• Issued: 11/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Ryu, Jong-hyun, Chae, Han-joo
• Primary Examiner(s): Bolourchi, Nader
• Application Number:
  US14/802,796
• Publication Number:
  US 20150341904A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,222 Days
• Field of Search: 455458
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/725 Cordless telephones user interfaces specially adapted therefor H04M1/724
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/04 the ringing-current being generated at the substations
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/02 Arrangements for increasing efficiency of notification or paging channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes: a transceiver configured to receive, from at least one wearable device, information indicating whether the at least one wearable device is being worn; and a processor configured to determine whether the at least one wearable device that is being worn, based on the received information indicating whether the at least one wearable device is being worn, and to provide a notification to the at least one wearable device in response to determining that the at least one wearable device is being worn.

Claims

1. A method of providing a notification at a wearable device by an electronic device, the method comprising:

receiving a user input to a user interface of the electronic device to configure a form of the notification to be provided at the wearable device;

based on the user input, transmitting, from the electronic device to the wearable device, a control signal for configuring the form of the notification to be provided at the wearable device;

detecting a notification event corresponding to the notification at the electronic device; and

based on determining that the electronic device is not in use, transmitting, by the electronic device, information corresponding to the detected notification event to the wearable device so that the notification corresponding to the detected notification event is provided in the configured form at the wearable device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining whether the wearable device is in use based on a display of the wearable device being on.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving, from the wearable device, information indicating whether the wearable device is in use.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the form of the notification that is provided at the wearable device corresponds to the detected notification event.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the form of notification corresponding to the detected notification event comprises one or more of a vibration, a display item, and a sound.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the wearable device comprises a watch.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the notification event is initiated by an application at the electronic device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving comprises receiving a plurality of user inputs to configure a plurality of forms of a plurality of notifications to be output by the wearable device, and

wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting, from the electronic device to the wearable device, a control signal to configure the plurality of forms of the plurality of notifications provided at the wearable device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting, from the electronic device to the wearable device, is performed via short range wireless communication.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

determining whether a predetermined device is configured to provide the notification corresponding to the detected notification event; and

based on determining that the predetermined device is configured to provide the notification corresponding to the detected notification event, providing the notification corresponding to the detected notification event at the predetermined device.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the method further comprises determining a form of the notification corresponding to the detected notification event and the predetermined device, and

wherein the providing the notification corresponding to the detected notification event at the predetermined device comprises providing the notification corresponding to the detected notification event at the predetermined device according to the determined form.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the form of the notification corresponding to the detected notification event comprises one or more of a vibration, a display item, and a sound.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein providing the notification corresponding to the detected notification event at the predetermined device is performed via short range wireless communication.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the detected notification event corresponds to one of a plurality of applications.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the determining whether the predetermined device is configured to provide the notification corresponding to the detected notification event is performed by checking a correspondence between the predetermined device and the notification event stored in memory.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the predetermined device comprises a second wearable device.

17. The method of claim 1, further comprising, based on determining that the wearable device is in use, requesting the wearable device to provide the notification corresponding to the detected notification event in the configured form of the notification of the wearable device.

18. The method of claim 1, further comprising, when the form of the notification of the wearable device is configured on the wearable device, receiving information of the configured form of the notification from the wearable device.

19. An electronic device comprising:

a communication device configured to communicate with a wearable device; and

a processor configured to;

receive a user interface of the electronic device to configure a form of the notification to be provided at the wearable device;

based on the user input, control the communication device to transmit a control signal for configuring the form of the notification to be provided at the wearable device;

detect a notification event corresponding to the notification to be provided at the wearable device; and

based on determining that the electronic device is not in use, control the communication device to transmit information corresponding to the detected notification event to the wearable device so that the notification corresponding to the detected notification event is provided in the configured form at the wearable device.

20. The electronic device of claim 19, wherein the form of the notification that is provided at the wearable device corresponds to the detected notification event.

21. The electronic device of claim 19, wherein the wearable device comprises a watch.

22. The electronic device of claim 19, wherein the notification event is initiated by an application at the electronic device.

23. A system of providing a notification, the system comprising:

an electronic device configured to;

receive a user input to a user interface of the electronic device to configure a form of the notification to be provided at a wearable device;

based on the user input, transmit to the wearable device a control signal for configuring the form of the notification to be provided at the wearable device;

detect a notification event corresponding to the notification; and

based on determining that the electronic device is not in use, transmit information corresponding to the detected notification event to the wearable device; and

the wearable device configured to;

configure a form of the notification based on the control signal for configuring the form of the notification from the electronic device; and

provide the notification corresponding to the detected notification event in the configured from.

24. The system of claim 23, wherein the form of the notification that is provided at the wearable device corresponds to the detected notification event.

25. The system of claim 23, wherein the wearable device comprises a watch.

26. The system of claim 23, wherein the notification event is initiated by an application at the electronic device.

27. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions that are executable to perform a method of providing a notification through a wearable device capable of communicating with an electronic device, the method comprising:

receiving a user input to a user interface of the electronic device to configure a form of the notification to be provided at the wearable device;

based on the user input, transmitting, from the electronic device to the wearable device, a control signal for configuring the form of the notification to be provided at the wearable device;

detecting a notification event at the electronic device;

determining whether a display of the electronic device is turned off; and

based on determining that the electronic device is not in use, transmitting, by the electronic device, information corresponding to the detected notification event so that the notification corresponding to the detected notification event is provided in the configured form by the wearable device.

28. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 27, wherein the form of the notification that is provided at the wearable device corresponds to the detected notification event.

29. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 27, wherein the wearable device comprises a watch.

30. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 27, wherein the notification event is initiated by an application at the electronic device.