MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING PROGRAM NOTIFICATION FUNCTION AND PROGRAM NOTIFICATION METHOD THEREOF

• US 20140179377A1
• Filed: 12/20/2013
• Published: 06/26/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pantech Co. Ltd. (Pantech Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Pantech Co. Ltd. (Pantech Incorporated)
• Inventors: Kim, Young-Han, Song, Chang-Jun, Lee, Hyung-Ju
• Application Number:
  US14/136,612
• Publication Number:
  US 20140179377A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel

Abstract

A mobile terminal to provide an interface for user notification includes a memory to store an application, the application providing a notification request in response to an event, a controller to receive the notification request and, in response to the notification request, to process notification information based on a user-configured notification policy, and an output device to output the processed notification information associated with the application.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal to provide an interface for user notification, comprising:

a memory to store an application, the application providing a notification request in response to an event;

a controller to receive the notification request and, in response to the notification request, to process notification information based on a user-configured notification policy; and

an output device to output the processed notification information associated with the application.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the outputted notification information is modified based on the user-configured notification policy.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 2, wherein the modification of the outputted notification information comprises at least one of a modification of a default notification icon of the application, a modification of a notification priority for the application, and a grouping of multiple notification requests.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller comprises a notification manager to process the notification information by filtering, prioritizing, or modifying source notification information, based on the user-configured notification policy, and to generate the processed notification information to be output by the output device.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 4, wherein the memory comprises a screen buffer to store the source notification information or the processed notification information to be output by the output device.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller comprises a first notification manager to receive the notification request and a second notification manager to process the notification information based on the user-configured notification policy.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller determines the output of the notification information based on a time range.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 7, wherein the time range comprises at least one of a time range for allowing notification information output and a time range for prohibiting notification information output.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller controls a display of a time range setting screen for setting a time range associated with a notification output, the time range configured to be set by a user input.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller provides a priority setting screen for setting or editing a notification priority of the application.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller provides a notification icon setting screen for editing a notification icon of the application.

12. A method for providing an interface for user notification, the method comprising:

storing an application, the application providing a notification request in response to an event;

receiving the notification request;

in response to the notification request, processing notification information based on a user-configured notification policy; and

outputting the processed notification information associated with the application.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the outputted notification information is modified based on the user-configured notification policy.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the modification of the outputted notification information comprises at least one of a modification of a default notification icon of the application, a modification of a notification priority for the application, and a grouping of multiple notification requests.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the processing of the notification information comprises filtering, prioritizing, or modifying source notification information, based on the user-configured notification policy, and generating the processed notification information to be output by an output device.

16. The method of claim 12, further comprising determining the output of the processed notification information based on a time range.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the time range comprises at least one of a time range for allowing notification information output and a time range for prohibiting notification information output.

18. The method of claim 12, further comprising controlling a display of a time range setting screen for setting a time range associated with a notification output, the time range configured to be set by a user input.

19. The method of claim 12, further comprising providing a priority setting screen for setting or editing a notification priority of the application.

20. The method of claim 12, further comprising providing a notification icon setting screen for editing a notification icon of the application.