Application Notification Display

• US 20120304118A1
• Filed: 05/27/2011
• Published: 11/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Donahue, Tyler J., McNeil, Brian K., Zaman, Nazia, Rawat, Anshul, Ivanovic, Relja, Reiniger, Kiernon S.
• Application Number:
  US13/118,292
• Publication Number:
  US 20120304118A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/808
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence

Abstract

Application notification display techniques are described. Implementations are described in which a representation of an application may include notifications that pertain to the application. Techniques are further described which may be used to manage the notifications, including replacement of notifications, use of queues, overrides, selection of notifications based on execution state of an application, cycling a display of a plurality of notifications, cycling a display of different subsets of notifications, examination of a manifest of an application to determine criteria to be used to display the notifications, display priority of the notifications, and so on.

Claims

1. A method implemented by a client device, the method comprising:

determining an execution state of an application that is executed by the client device;

choosing a notification to be displayed as part of a representation of the application in a user interface of the client device; and

displaying the notification as part of the representation of the application in the user interface.

2. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the execution state involves rendering of content and the choosing is performed to locate the notification that corresponds to the content.

3. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the execution state involves content that is currently processed by the application and the choosing is performed to locate the notification that describes this processing.

4. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the representation is displayed along with a plurality of other representations of other application on a application launcher of the client device.

5. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the application is configured to cause rendering of music by the client device.

6. A method as described in claim 1, wherein the notification found through the choosing is different than a notification that is displayed as part of the representation of the application when then application is not executed by the client device.

7. A method implemented by a client device, the method comprising:

receiving a plurality of notifications to be displayed as part of a representation of an application in a user interface; and

cycling a display of the plurality of notifications as part of the representation of the application in the user interface such that the plurality of notifications are displayed in succession.

8. A method as described in claim 7, wherein the representation is selectable to launch the application.

9. A method as described in claim 7, wherein the representation is displayed with a plurality of other representations of other applications.

10. A method as described in claim 9, wherein at plurality of other representations are also configured to display a plurality of notifications, respectively, and further comprising displaying the notifications in the user interface such that different subsets of the representations are cycled at different points in time.

11. A method as described in claim 7, wherein the representation and the other representations are displayed on the client device.

12. A method as described in claim 7, wherein the receiving and the cycling are performed without executing the application by the client device.

13. A method as described in claim 7, wherein at least one said notification includes a plurality of frames that are configured to be displayed successively at part of the representation of the application.

14. A method as described in claim 7, further comprising responsive to detecting an input that indicates interaction with the representation of the application, pausing the cycling of the display of the plurality of notifications as part of the representation of the application in the user interface.

15. A method as described in claim 7, wherein the cycling is performed responsive to receipt of an input by the client device that indicates that the cycling is to be initiated.

16. A method as described in claim 7, wherein the notification is selectable as part of the representation to launch the application in a context of the notification.

17. A method implemented by a client device, the method comprising:

receiving a plurality of notifications to be displayed as part of respective representations of a plurality of applications in a user interface; and

displaying the plurality of notifications as part of the representations of the applications in the user interface such that different subsets of the notification of the applications are cycled at different points in time.

18. A method as described in claim 17, wherein the representations are selectable to launch respective said applications.

19. A method as described in claim 17, wherein the representations are displayed on the client device.

20. A method as described in claim 17, wherein the receiving and the displaying of the plurality of notifications are performable without executing respective said applications.