REDUCED-SIZE NOTIFICATION INTERFACE

• US 20160062570A1
• Filed: 08/27/2015
• Published: 03/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: DASCOLA, Jonathan R., YANG, Lawrence Y., FOSS, Christopher Patrick, BUTCHER, Gary Ian, CHAUDHRI, Imran, DYE, Alan C., FEDERIGHI, Craig M., IVE, Jonathan P., LEMAY, Stephen O., LYNCH, Kevin, MARIC, Natalia, ROTHERT, Curtis A., WAN, Wan Si, WILSON, Christopher, WILLIAMS, Jeff
• Granted Patent: US 10,732,791 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• 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 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0362 with detection of 1D translations or rotations of an operating part of the device, e.g. scroll wheels, sliders, knobs, rollers or belts
• 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 3/0482 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 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1093 Calendar-based scheduling for persons or groups
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like

Abstract

An electronic device with a touch-sensitive display can obtain a plurality of alerts associated with dates and times. The device can detect a user input, and in response to the input display a notification interface. The notification interface can include a future notification representing a future alert with a date and time after the current date and time, and a past notification representing a past alert with a date and time before the current date and time. The future and past notifications can be separated by a graphical separator that has an indication of the current time. The future and past alerts correspond to different installed applications.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by one or more processors of an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display, cause the device to:

receive a plurality of alerts, wherein the alerts are associated with date-times, wherein the alerts include content, and wherein the alerts correspond to a plurality of installed applications;

detect a user input; and

in response to detecting the user input, display a notification interface on the display, the notification interface comprising a plurality of notifications representing at least a subset of the plurality of alerts,

wherein the notifications are displayed in a chronological order based on the date-times associated with the alerts, and

wherein the notifications include user interface objects representative of the corresponding installed applications of the alerts, and wherein the notifications include at least a portion of the content of the plurality of alerts.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, further comprising instructions to cause the device to:

while displaying the notification interface, detect a second user input;

in response to detecting the second user input, scroll the notification interface in a first direction in accordance with the second user input to display additional notifications representing additional alerts in the plurality of alerts.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 2, wherein the device further comprises a rotatable input mechanism, and wherein the second user input is a rotation of the rotatable input mechanism.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 2, wherein the second user input is a substantially vertical swipe, drag, or flick on the touch-sensitive display.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 2, further comprising instructions to cause the device to:

further in response to detecting the second user input, display an indication based on the currently displayed notifications relative to an entire set of notifications associated with the plurality of received alerts.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 5, wherein the indication is representative of a position of the currently displayed notifications relative to the entire set of notifications.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 5, wherein the indication is representative of a proportion of the entire set of notifications that are currently displayed.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 5, wherein the indication is displayed in a fixed location.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 8, wherein the device further comprises a rotatable input mechanism adjacent to the display, and wherein the fixed location is adjacent to the rotatable input mechanism.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 5, wherein the indication is displayed over at least a portion of one or more notifications.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 5, further comprising instructions to cause the device to:

in accordance with a predetermined amount of time of inactivity after the second input, cease to display the indication.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 11, wherein the indication is ceased to be displayed by fading out the indication over time.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the device comprises a rotatable input mechanism, further comprising instructions to cause the device to:

while displaying the notification interface, detect a touch on the touch-sensitive display and detect a rotation of the rotatable input mechanism; and

in response to detecting the touch and the rotation, zoom the notification interface.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 13, wherein the touch and at least a portion of the rotation are detected essentially simultaneously.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of notifications includes a first notification corresponding to a first alert, and wherein the first alert comprises first content, further comprising instructions to cause the device to:

detect a contact on the first notification; and

in response to detecting the contact;

cease to display the notification interface, and

display the first content.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15, wherein the contact is detected on the user interface object representative of the corresponding installed application of the first alert.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15, further comprising instructions to cause the device to:

after displaying the first content, detect a third user input; and

in response to detecting the third user input;

re-display the notification interface, wherein the notification interface excludes the first notification.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1,

wherein the plurality of notifications includes a first notification and a second notification,

wherein the first notification includes a first user interface object representative of a first installed application corresponding to a first alert and the second notification includes a second user interface object representative of a second installed application corresponding to a second alert,

wherein the first user interface object includes a first affordance that, when activated, launches the first installed application corresponding to the first alert, and

wherein the second user interface object includes a second affordance that, when activated, launches the second installed application corresponding to the second alert.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 18, wherein launching the first installed application or the second installed application comprises displaying the first installed application or the second installed application on the touch-sensitive display.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the touch-sensitive display comprises one or more sensors to detect the intensity of contacts with the touch-sensitive display, further comprising instructions to cause the device to:

while displaying the notification interface, detect a contact on the display;

determine whether the characteristic intensity of the contact is above a threshold intensity; and

in accordance with a determination that the characteristic intensity of the contact is above the threshold intensity, display an affordance for removing the plurality of notifications from the notification interface.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 20, further comprising instructions to cause the device to:

in accordance with a determination that the characteristic intensity of the contact is below the threshold intensity, and in accordance with a determination that the contact is at a location on the display corresponding to a third notification of the plurality of notifications, wherein the third notification represents a third alert of the plurality of alerts, and wherein the third alert comprises third content;

cease to display the notification interface, and

display the third content.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of alerts comprises a location-based alert, and wherein displaying the notification interface comprises displaying a notification representing the location-based alert at the top of the notification interface regardless of the value of any date-time associated with the location-based alert.

23. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 1, wherein displaying the notification interface includes replacing display of a first set of user interface objects with display of the notification interface.

24. A method, comprising:

at an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display;

receiving a plurality of alerts, wherein the alerts are associated with date-times, wherein the alerts include content, and wherein the alerts correspond to a plurality of installed applications;

detecting a user input; and

in response to detecting the user input, displaying a notification interface on the display, the notification interface comprising a plurality of notifications representing at least a subset of the plurality of alerts,

wherein the notifications are displayed in a chronological order based on the date-times associated with the alerts, and

wherein the notifications include user interface objects representative of the corresponding installed applications of the alerts, and wherein the notifications include at least a portion of the content of the plurality of alerts.

25. An electronic device, comprising:

a touch-sensitive display;

one or more processors;

a memory; and

one or more programs, wherein the one or more programs are stored in the memory and configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for;

receiving a plurality of alerts, wherein the alerts are associated with date-times, wherein the alerts include content, and wherein the alerts correspond to a plurality of installed applications;

detecting a user input; and

in response to detecting the user input, displaying a notification interface on the display, the notification interface comprising a plurality of notifications representing at least a subset of the plurality of alerts,

wherein the notifications are displayed in a chronological order based on the date-times associated with the alerts, and

wherein the notifications include user interface objects representative of the corresponding installed applications of the alerts, and wherein the notifications include at least a portion of the content of the plurality of alerts.