PRIORITIZED MANAGEMENT AND PRESENTATION OF NOTIFICATIONS

• US 20130346882A1
• Filed: 06/20/2013
• Published: 12/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Shiplacoff, Daniel Marc Gatan, Duarte, Matias Gonzalo, Robertson, Christian, Faaborg, Alexander, Keely, Lee Brandon, Hong, Leon, Nagel, Jens, Ng, Peter
• Granted Patent: US 9,049,261 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/753
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1095 Meeting or appointment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15

Abstract

A computing device is described that receives an indication of a notification, and determines a priority level associated with the notification. The computing device determines, based at least in part on the priority level, content of the notification. Responsive to receiving an indication of a gesture detected at an input device, the computing device outputs, for display, a notification center graphical user interface that includes a graphical indication of the notification including the content of the notification.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a computing device, an indication of a notification;

determining, by the computing device, a priority level associated with the notification;

determining, by the computing device and based at least in part on the priority level, content of the notification; and

responsive to receiving an indication of a gesture detected at an input device, outputting, by the computing device and for display, a notification center graphical user interface, the notification center graphical user interface including a graphical indication of the notification, the graphical indication including the content of the notification.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

responsive to determining that the priority level associated with the notification does not satisfy a priority threshold, determining, by the computing device, to output only a first portion of the content of the notification.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

responsive to determining that the priority level associated with the notification satisfies a priority threshold, determining, by the computing device, to output both a first portion and a second portion of the content of the notification.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the notification is a summary notification that includes respective indications of each of a plurality of notifications, the method further comprising:

responsive to determining that the priority level associated with at least one of the plurality of notifications satisfies a priority threshold;

determining, by the computing device, that the content of the summary notification includes a respective first portion of content associated with each of the plurality of notifications, and

modifying, by the computing device, the graphical indication of the summary notification to include the respective first portion of the content associated with each of the plurality of notifications.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

responsive to determining that the priority level associated with the notification satisfies a priority threshold, outputting, by the computing device and for display, the graphical indication of the notification within an upper portion of the notification center graphical user interface.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

outputting, by the computing device and for display at a presence-sensitive screen, the notification center graphical user interface, wherein the presence-sensitive screen includes the input device, and wherein the gesture is detected at the presence-sensitive screen.

7. A method comprising:

receiving, by a computing device, an indication of a first notification and an indication of a second notification;

determining, by the computing device, a respective priority level associated with each of the first and second notifications;

determining, by the computing device and based on the respective priority levels of the first and second notifications, respective content of each of the first and second notifications; and

outputting, by the computing device and for display, a notification center graphical user interface including a respective graphical indication of each of the first and second notifications, the graphical indication of the first notification including the content of the first notification and the graphical indication of the second notification including the content of the second notification.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

responsive to determining that the respective priority level of the first notification exceeds the respective priority level of the second notification, outputting, by the computing device, for display within the notification center graphical user interface, the graphical indication of the second notification below the graphical indication of the first notification.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the graphical indication of the first notification includes both a first content portion and a second content portion of the first notification and the graphical indication of the second notification includes only a first content portion of the second notification.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

receiving, by the computing device, an indication of an input detected at an input device, the input corresponding to a command to clear the first notification;

responsive to receiving the input, ceasing outputting, by the computing device and for display, the graphical indication of the first notification; and

modifying, by the computing device, the graphical indication of the second notification to include a second content portion of the second notification in addition to the first content portion.

11. A system comprising:

a display device;

an input device;

at least one processor; and

at least one module operable by the at least one processor to;

receive an indication of a notification;

determine a priority level associated with the notification;

determine, based at least in part on the priority level, content of the notification; and

responsive to receiving an indication of a gesture detected at the input device, output, for display at the display device, a notification center graphical user interface, the notification center graphical user interface including a graphical indication of the notification, and the graphical indication including the content of the notification.

12. The system of claim 11, further comprising a presence-sensitive screen that includes the display device and the input device.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the at least one module is further operable by the at least one processor to:

responsive to determining that the priority level associated with the notification does not satisfy a priority threshold, determine to output only a first portion of the content of the notification.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the at least one module is further operable by the at least one processor to:

responsive to determining that the priority level associated with the notification satisfies a priority threshold, determine to output both a first portion and a second portion of the content of the notification.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the notification is a summary notification that include respective indications of each of a plurality of notifications, wherein the at least one module is further operable by the at least one processor to:

responsive to determining that the priority level associated with at least one of the plurality of notifications satisfies a priority threshold;

determine that the content of the summary notification includes a respective first portion of content associated with each of the plurality of notifications, and

modify the graphical indication of the summary notification to include the respective first portion of the content associated with each of the plurality of notifications.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the at least one module is further operable by the at least one processor to:

responsive to determining that the priority level associated with the notification satisfies a priority threshold, output, for display at the display device, the graphical indication of the notification within an upper portion of the notification center graphical user interface.

17. A system comprising:

a display device;

an input device;

at least one processor; and

at least one module operable by the at least one processor to;

receive an indication of a first notification and an indication of a second notification;

determine a respective priority level associated with each of the first and second notifications;

determine, based on the respective priority levels of the first and second notifications, respective content of each of the first and second notifications; and

output, for display at the display device, a notification center graphical user interface including a respective graphical indication of each of the first and second notifications the graphical indication of the first notification including the content of the first notification and the graphical indication of the second notification including the content of the second notification.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the at least one module is further operable by the at least one processor to:

receive an indication of an input detected at the input device, the input corresponding to a command to clear the first notification;

responsive to receiving the input, cease outputting, for display at the display device, the graphical indication of the first notification; and

modify the graphical indication of the second notification to include a second content portion of the second notification in addition to the first content portion.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the at least one module is further operable by the at least one processor to:

responsive to determining that the respective priority level of the first notification exceeds the respective priority level of the second notification, output, for display within the notification center graphical user interface, the graphical indication of the second notification below the graphical indication of the first notification.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the graphical indication of the first notification includes both a first content portion and a second content portion of the first notification and the graphical indication of the second notification includes only a first content portion of the second notification.