Notification In Immersive Applications

• US 20110167383A1
• Filed: 01/04/2011
• Published: 07/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Schuller, Donald Geoffrey, Lyon, Jeremy Godfrey
• Granted Patent: US 8,972,892 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/808
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

A notification framework delivers notifications in a manner that is appropriate for a user'"'"'s current experience. An API is implemented in the notification framework and provided to developers to develop applications utilizing such API to communicate with the framework. A display mode of an active application is determined by the framework. A notification generated by an alerting application is captured by the framework. The framework determines a mode of delivery based on the display mode and the notification, and delivers the notification accordingly.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for displaying a notification on a screen of a mobile computing device, comprising:

determining whether an active application running on the mobile computing device is in full screen mode;

receiving a notification from an alerted application running on the mobile computing device; and

delivering the notification in a notification delivery mode determined based on whether the active application is in full screen mode, comprising;

responsive to determining that the active application is not in full screen mode, displaying on the screen an icon for the notification on a notification bar, and

responsive to determining that the active application is in full screen mode, displaying on the screen in an overlay over a display of the active application a transient banner for the notification.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the icon and the transient banner are selectable, the method further comprising:

receiving a user selection of the displayed notification; and

responsive to receiving the user selection of the displayed transient banner for the notification, transmitting the user selection to the alerted application.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein transmitting the user selection to the alerted application comprises:

responsive to receiving the user selection within a brief period of time after the notification is delivered, ignoring the user selection without transmitting to the alerted application.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining at least one of an application configuration or a user preference of the active application, wherein the notification delivery mode is determined based on whether the active application is in full screen mode, and the determined application configuration or the user preference of the active application.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining a category of the active application, wherein the notification delivery mode is determined based on whether the active application is in full screen mode and the category of the active application.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the notification received from the alerted application comprises a desirable notification delivery mode, wherein delivering the notification comprises:

responsive to determining that the active application is not in full screen mode, delivering the notification according to the desirable notification delivery mode; and

responsive to determining that the active application is in full screen mode, (1) determining whether the desirable notification delivery mode is appropriate, and (2) delivering the notification according to the desirable notification delivery mode only if the desirable notification delivery mode is determined appropriate.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein delivering the notification comprises:

generating a layout of the notification based on the determined notification delivery mode, an orientation of the screen, and a semantic description of components of the notification provided by the alerted application; and

displaying on the screen the generated layout of the notification.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether the active application suppresses transient banner notifications, wherein delivering the notification comprises responsive to determining that the active application suppresses transient banner notifications, displaying on the screen in the overlay over the display of the active application the transient banner for the notification after the active application is no longer in full screen mode.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

pausing the active application while the notification is delivered.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying on the screen in the overlay over the display of the active application the transient banner for the notification comprises:

hiding the transient banner if the transient banner is not selected for a predetermined period of time, and wherein displaying on the screen the icon for the notification on a notification bar comprises;

displaying on the screen the icon until receiving a user input that positively dismisses the icon.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein delivering the notification further comprises:

displaying on the screen a popup dialog box for the notification, wherein the popup dialog box comprises a message and one or more buttons for user selection, and the popup dialog box is dismissed after receiving a user selection for one of the buttons.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with executable computer program code for displaying a notification on a screen of a mobile computing device, the computer program code comprising program code for:

determining whether an active application running on the mobile computing device is in full screen mode;

receiving a notification from an alerted application running on the mobile computing device; and

delivering the notification in a notification delivery mode determined based on whether the active application is in full screen mode, comprising;

responsive to determining that the active application is not in full screen mode, displaying on the screen an icon for the notification on a notification bar, and

responsive to determining that the active application is in full screen mode, displaying on the screen in an overlay over a display of the active application a transient banner for the notification.

13. The storage medium of claim 12, wherein the icon and the transient banner are selectable, and the computer program code further comprises program code for:

receiving a user selection of the displayed notification; and

responsive to receiving the user selection of the displayed transient banner for the notification, transmitting the user selection to the alerted application.

14. The storage medium of claim 13, wherein transmitting the user selection to the alerted application comprises:

responsive to receiving the user selection within a brief period of time after the notification is delivered, ignoring the user selection without transmitting to the alerted application.

15. The storage medium of claim 12, wherein the computer program code further comprises program code for:

determining at least one of an application configuration or a user preference of the active application, wherein the notification delivery mode is determined based on whether the active application is in full screen mode, and the determined application configuration or the user preference of the active application.

16. The storage medium of claim 12, wherein the computer program code further comprises program code for:

determining a category of the active application, wherein the notification delivery mode is determined based on whether the active application is in full screen mode and the category of the active application.

17. A mobile computing device, comprising:

a screen;

a processor; and

a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with executable computer program code for executing by the processor to display a notification on the screen of the mobile computing device, the computer program code comprising program code for;

determining whether an active application running on the mobile computing device is in full screen mode;

receiving a notification from an alerted application running on the mobile computing device; and

delivering the notification in a notification delivery mode determined based on whether the active application is in full screen mode, comprising;

responsive to determining that the active application is not in full screen mode, displaying on the screen an icon for the notification on a notification bar, and

responsive to determining that the active application is in full screen mode, displaying on the screen in an overlay over a display of the active application a transient banner for the notification.

18. The mobile computing device of claim 17, wherein the icon and the transient banner are selectable, and the computer program code further comprises program code for:

receiving a user selection of the displayed notification; and

responsive to receiving the user selection of the displayed transient banner for the notification, transmitting the user selection to the alerted application.

19. The mobile computing device of claim 18, wherein transmitting the user selection to the alerted application comprises:

responsive to receiving the user selection within a brief period of time after the notification is delivered, ignoring the user selection without transmitting to the alerted application.

20. The mobile computing device of claim 17, wherein the computer program code further comprises program code for:

determining at least one of an application configuration or a user preference of the active application, wherein the notification delivery mode is determined based on whether the active application is in full screen mode, and the determined application configuration or the user preference of the active application.