SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING NOTIFICATIONS RECEIVED FROM MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS

• US 20130007665A1
• Filed: 06/05/2012
• Published: 01/03/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Chaudhri, Imran A., Block, Eliza
• Granted Patent: US 9,292,310 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/830
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for displaying notifications received from multiple applications. In some embodiments, an electronic device can monitor notifications that are received from the multiple applications. Responsive to receiving the notifications, the electronic device can control the manner in which the notifications are displayed while the device is operating in a locked or an unlocked state. In some embodiments, the electronic device can allow users to customize how notifications are to be displayed while the device is in the locked and/or unlocked states.

Claims

1. A data processing system, comprising:

a processor to execute instructions;

a touch processing module; and

a memory coupled with the processor to store instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to interface a notification module of the data processing system with an application programming interface (“

API”

) calling component and operative to;

receive a plurality of notifications from at least one application;

detect that the electronic device is operating in a locked state;

provide a pull-down option associated with the plurality of notifications;

detect whether a user has selected the pull-down option using the touch processing module; and

in response to detecting that the user has selected the pull-down option, provide a list of the plurality of notifications to the user.

2. The data processing system of claim 1, wherein the list of the plurality of notifications comprises all notifications received while the electronic device is operating in the locked state.

3. The data processing system of claim 1, wherein the list of the plurality of notifications is arranged based on a time that each of the plurality of notification was received.

4. The data processing system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further operative to sort the list of the plurality of notifications based on a user selected parameter.

5. The data processing system of claim 1, wherein the list of the plurality of notifications is scrollable.

6. The data processing system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further operative to:

detect whether a user has selected to access a notification from the list of the plurality of notifications using the touch processing module; and

in response to detecting that a user has selected to access the notification, display a slider associated with an application that generated the notification.

7. The data processing system of claim 6, wherein the processor is further operative:

detect that a user has activated the slider;

unlock the electronic device; and

present, to the user, the notification in the application that generated the notification.

8. A method for displaying notifications when an electronic device is in a locked state, the method comprising:

receiving a plurality of notifications from at least one application;

detecting that the electronic device is operating in the locked state;

displaying a list of the plurality of notifications;

enabling a user to browse the displayed list while the electronic device is operating in the locked state.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein enabling the user to browse the displayed list comprises receiving a user input to move the displayed list up or down to cause additional received notifications to be displayed.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein each displayed notification comprises a representative graphic and text.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the list of the plurality of notifications is arranged based on a time that each of the plurality of notification was received.

12. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

receiving a user command to unlock the electronic device;

relocking the electronic device; and

after the electronic device re-enters the locked state, ceasing to display the list of received notification that were displayed prior to unlocking the electronic device.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising displaying an user input unlocking region, the user input unlocking region comprising text.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the text of the user input unlocking region is context sensitive based on a received notification.

15. The method of claim 8, wherein the locked state is a state that limits user interaction with the electronic device.

16. A machine-readable storage medium that provides instructions that, if executed by a processor, will cause the processor to generate an application programming interface (“

API”

) that allows an API-implementing component to perform operations, the operations comprising;

receiving a plurality of notifications, wherein the plurality of notifications comprise at least one of a push-based notification and a trigger-based notification;

detecting that an electronic device is in an unlocked state;

detecting that a user has selected to access a notification center; and

displaying the notification center, wherein the notification center comprises a plurality of panes associated with the plurality of notifications.

17. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the operations further comprises pulling down the notification center to the bottom of a display.

18. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the detecting that the user has selected to access the notification center further comprises detecting that the user has flicked or dragged at least one finger from the top of the display.

19. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the operations further comprises providing an option for each pane of the plurality of panes, wherein the option allows the user to manually clear at least one notification out of the pane.

20. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the operations further comprises:

providing an option to modify settings for the notification center;

detecting that a user has selected the option; and

providing a plurality of notification settings.

21. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the operations further comprises providing for automatic removal of at least one notification from the notification center after a calendar event corresponding to the at least one notification has lapsed.

22. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the operations further comprises:

detecting a user selection of one of displayed panes; and

opening an application associated with the user selected pane.

23. A method for displaying a notifications center in an unlocked electronic device, the method comprising:

receiving a plurality of notifications;

detecting that a user has selected to access a notification center;

displaying the notification center, wherein the notification center comprises at least one horizontally scrollable pane and at least one vertically scrollable pane, wherein the at least one vertically scrollable pane includes an associated listing of at least one notification.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the at least one horizontally scrollable pane comprises automatically scrolling assets.

25. The method of claim 23, further comprising:

receiving user input on the at least one horizontally scrollable pane, the received user input controlling a horizontal scrolling of content displayed therein.

26. The method of claim 23, wherein each pane is associated with a particular application.

27. The method of claim 23, wherein the associated listing of the at least one notification of each vertically scrollable pane is contiguous.

28. The method of claim 23, wherein each notification within a particular vertically scrollable pane is ordered based on the time it was received.

29. The method of claim 23, wherein an order in which each of the each of the at least one vertically scrollable panes is based on a user preference.

30. A data processing system, comprising:

a processor to execute instructions;

a touch processing module; and

a memory coupled with the processor to store instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to interface a notification module of the data processing system with an application programming interface (“

API”

) calling component and operative to;

receive a plurality of notifications;

detect that a user has selected to access a notification center;

display the notification center, wherein the notification center comprises at least one horizontally scrollable pane and at least one vertically scrollable pane, wherein the at least one vertically scrollable pane includes an associated listing of at least one notification.

31. The method of claim 30, wherein the at least one horizontally scrollable pane comprises automatically scrolling assets.

32. The method of claim 30, further comprising:

receiving user input on the at least one horizontally scrollable pane, the received user input controlling a horizontal scrolling of content displayed therein.

33. The method of claim 30, wherein each pane is associated with a particular application.

34. The method of claim 30, wherein the associated listing of the at least one notification of each vertically scrollable pane is contiguous.

35. The method of claim 30, wherein each notification within a particular vertically scrollable pane is ordered based on the time it was received.

36. The method of claim 30, wherein an order in which each of the each of the at least one vertically scrollable panes is based on a user preference.

37-88. -88. (canceled)