Environment sensitive notifications for mobile devices

• US 20060223547A1
• Filed: 03/31/2005
• Published: 10/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Chin, Peter G., Smith, Leonard Jr.
• Application Number:
  US11/096,616
• Publication Number:
  US 20060223547A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3287 by switching off individual functional units in the computer system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/044 according to the level of ambient noise
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/10 including a GPS signal receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

Systems and methods for generating notifications based on one or more environmental conditions sensed a mobile computing device. The notifications can also be based on information related to one or more applications that can run on the mobile computing device. The mobile device can also detect non-environmental inputs from the user and ignore them in determining parameters of the notifications.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of generating notifications, the method comprising:

receiving information derived from at least one environment sensor of a mobile computing device; and

selectively generating a notification for a user in response to notification request, wherein the notification has parameters based at least on the received information.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein selectively generating a notification further comprises selectively generating the notification having parameters based at least on information related to the user'"'"'s location.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the location information includes context information regarding the location.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein selectively generating a notification further comprises selecting one or more output devices to generate the notification for the user.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein selectively generating a notification further comprises selectively generating the notification having parameters based at least on information related to one or more applications executable by the mobile computing device.

6. The method of claim 4 wherein the one or more applications are selected from the group comprising:

a calendaring application, a global positioning system (GPS) application, a personal information manager (PIM) application, an e-mail application or a geographical information system (GIS) application.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein selectively generating further comprises basing the notification parameters at least in part on detecting and ignoring a non-environmental input in information derived from the at least one environmental sensor.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the function depends at least in part on the received information or information related to one or more applications that are executable by the mobile computing device, or both.

9. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that when executed by a mobile computing device perform operations implementing the method of claim 1.

10. A system to generate a notification, the system comprising:

an interface to an environment sensor of a mobile computing device; and

a sensor data processor to selectively generate a notification for a user in response to notification request, wherein the notification has parameters based at least on the received information.

11. The system of claim 10 wherein the parameters are also based at least on information related to the user'"'"'s location.

12. The system of claim 10 wherein the parameters are based at least on information related to one or more applications executable by the mobile computing device.

13. The system of claim 10 wherein the environmental sensor monitors one or more of:

acceleration, conductance, audio, light, pressure, infrared, orientation, or temperature.

14. The system of claim 10 wherein the notification parameters are based at least in part on detecting and ignoring a non-environmental input from the received information.

15. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that when executed implement the system of claim 10.

16. A system for generating notifications, the system comprising:

means for receiving information derived from at least one environment sensor of a mobile computing device; and

means for selectively generating a notification for a user in response to notification request, wherein the notification has parameters based at least on the received information.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein the means for selectively generating a notification further comprises means for selectively generating the notification having parameters based at least on information related to the user'"'"'s location.

18. The system of claim 16 wherein the means for selectively generating a notification further comprises means for selectively generating the notification having parameters based at least on information related to one or more applications executable by the mobile computing device.

19. The system of claim 16 wherein the means selectively generating a notification further comprises means for selecting one or more output devices to generate the notification.

20. The system of claim 16 wherein the means for selectively generating a notification further comprises means for ignoring non-environmental input in the information derived from the at least one environment sensor.