USER INTERFACE FOR LIMITING NOTIFICATIONS AND ALERTS

• US 20160062590A1
• Filed: 08/19/2015
• Published: 03/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: KARUNAMUNI, Chanaka G., BUTCHER, Gary Ian, CHAUDHRI, Imran, KERR, Duncan Robert, LYNCH, Kevin, ROTHERT, Curtis A., JENKINS, Monica
• Granted Patent: US 11,526,270 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04105 Pressure sensors for measuring the pressure or force exerted on the touch surface without providing the touch position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04108 Touchless 2D- digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface without distance measurement in the Z direction
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• 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: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/045 Call privacy arrangements, e.g. timely inhibiting the ring signal

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to systems and processes for limiting notifications on an electronic device. In one example process, data representing a user input can be received by an electronic device. The data representing the user input can include touch data from the touch-sensitive device, ambient light data from an ambient light sensor, intensity data from a contact intensity sensor, and/or motion data from one or more motion sensors. Based on the data, it can be determined whether the user input is a cover gesture over a touch-sensitive display of the electronic device. In response to determining that the user input is a cover gesture over the touch-sensitive display, the electronic device can be put into a DND mode for a predetermined amount of time. While in the DND mode, the electronic device can cease to output some or all notifications.

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 comprising a touch-sensitive display, cause the device to:

receive data representing a user input;

determine, based on the data representing the user input, whether the user input is a cover gesture over the touch-sensitive display; and

in accordance with a determination that the user input is the cover gesture over the touch-sensitive display, cause the device to enter a do not disturb (DND) mode.

2. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the data representing the user input comprises touch data output by the touch-sensitive display, and wherein to determine whether the user input is the cover gesture over the touch-sensitive display comprises:

determine, based on the touch data, whether a touch has been detected at a threshold amount of the touch-sensitive display.

3. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein:

the electronic device further comprises an ambient light sensor;

the data representing the user input comprises ambient light data representing an amount of light received by the ambient light sensor; and

wherein to determine whether the user input is the cover gesture over the touch-sensitive display comprises;

determine, based on the ambient light data, whether the amount of light received by the ambient light sensor is below a threshold light value.

4. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein:

the electronic device further comprises a motion sensor;

the data representing the user input comprises motion data representing motion of the electronic device detected by the motion sensor; and

wherein to determine whether the user input is the cover gesture over the touch-sensitive display comprises;

determine, based on the motion data, whether the motion of the electronic device is above a threshold amount of motion and whether the motion occurred within a predetermined length of time after a notification event.

5. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein:

the electronic device further comprises a contact intensity sensor;

the data representing the user input comprises intensity data representing a characteristic intensity of a contact detected by the contact intensity sensor; and

wherein to determine whether the user input is the cover gesture over the touch-sensitive display comprises;

determine, based on the intensity data, whether the characteristic intensity of the contact detected by the contact intensity sensor is above a threshold intensity.

6. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the non-transitory computer readable storage medium further comprises instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors of the electronic device, cause the device to:

in response to determining that the user input is the cover gesture over the touch-sensitive display, determine a termination time that the electronic device will exit the DND mode.

7. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the non-transitory computer readable storage medium further comprises instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors of the electronic device, cause the device to:

in response to a current time being the termination time, cause the electronic device to exit the DND mode.

8. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the termination time is determined based on contextual data.

9. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein to determine the termination time that the electronic device will exit the DND mode comprises:

determine whether there is sufficient contextual data to generate a custom termination time;

in response to determining that there is sufficient contextual data to generate the custom termination time;

determine the custom termination time based on the contextual data; and

set the termination time to be equal to the custom termination time; and

in response to determining that there is not sufficient contextual data to generate the custom termination time, set the termination time to be equal to a default value.

10. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein to determine the custom termination time based on the contextual data comprises:

determine an event based on the contextual data, the event having an end time of the event; and

set the custom termination time to be equal to the end time of the event.

11. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the non-transitory computer readable storage medium further comprises instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors of the electronic device, cause the device to:

generate a notification of a predetermined length of time prior to the termination time.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the notification comprises an indication of a length of time until the termination time.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the non-transitory computer readable storage medium further comprises instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors of the electronic device, cause the device to:

while in the DND mode;

receive new data representing a new user input;

determine, based on the new data representing the new user input, whether the new user input is a second cover gesture over the touch-sensitive display; and

in accordance with a determination that the new user input is the second cover gesture over the touch-sensitive display, determine a new termination time that the electronic device will exit the DND mode.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the new termination time is one hour after a time that it was determined that the new user input is the second cover gesture over the touch-sensitive display.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the non-transitory computer readable storage medium further comprises instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors of the electronic device, cause the device to:

in response to determining that the user input is the cover gesture over the touch-sensitive display, determine a length of time that the electronic device will be in the DND mode.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the non-transitory computer readable storage medium further comprises instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors of the electronic device, cause the device to:

in response to the length of time expiring, cause the electronic device to exit the DND mode.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the length of time is determined based on contextual data.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein to determine the length of time that the electronic device will be in the DND mode comprises:

determine whether there is sufficient contextual data to generate a custom length of time;

in response to determining that there is sufficient contextual data to generate the custom length of time;

determine the custom length of time based on the contextual data; and

set the length of time to be equal to the custom length of time; and

in response to determining that there is not sufficient contextual data to generate the custom length of time, set the length of time to be equal to a default value.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein to determine the custom length of time based on the contextual data comprises:

determine an event based on the contextual data, the event having an end time of the event;

determine a difference between a current time and the end time of the event; and

set the custom length of time to be equal to the difference between the current time and the end of time of the event.

20. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the non-transitory computer readable storage medium further comprises instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors of the electronic device, cause the device to:

generate a notification of a predetermined length of time prior to expiration of the length of time that the electronic device will be in the DND mode.

21. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 20, wherein the notification comprises an indication of a length of time until the expiration of the length of time that the electronic device will be in the DND mode.

22. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the non-transitory computer readable storage medium further comprises instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors of the electronic device, cause the device to:

while in the DND mode;

receive new data representing a new user input;

determine, based on the new data representing the new user input, whether the new user input is a second cover gesture over the touch-sensitive display; and

in accordance with a determination that the new user input is the second cover gesture over the touch-sensitive display, determine a new length of time that the electronic device will be in the DND mode.

23. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the non-transitory computer readable storage medium further comprises instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors of the electronic device, cause the device to:

prevent all notifications from being presented while the electronic device is in the DND mode.

24. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the non-transitory computer readable storage medium further comprises instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors of the electronic device, cause the device to:

prevent a subset of all notifications from being presented while the electronic device is in the DND mode.

25. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the non-transitory computer readable storage medium further comprises instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors of the electronic device, cause the device to:

cease to display incoming electronic messages on the touch-sensitive display while the electronic device is in the DND mode.

26. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the non-transitory computer readable storage medium further comprises instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors of the electronic device, cause the device to:

cease to produce haptic outputs in response to incoming electronic messages while the electronic device is in the DND mode.

27. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the non-transitory computer readable storage medium further comprises instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors of the electronic device, cause the device to:

cease to produce audible outputs in response to incoming electronic messages while the electronic device is in the DND mode.

28. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the non-transitory computer readable storage medium further comprises instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors of the electronic device, cause the device to:

display, on the touch-sensitive display, a DND indicator while the electronic device is in the DND mode.

29. A computer-implemented method comprising:

at an electronic device comprising a touch-sensitive display;

receiving data representing a user input;

determining, based on the data representing the user input, whether the user input is a cover gesture over the touch-sensitive display; and

in accordance with a determination that the user input is the cover gesture over the touch-sensitive display, causing the device to enter a do not disturb (DND) mode.

30. 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 data representing a user input;

determining, based on the data representing the user input, whether the user input is a cover gesture over the touch-sensitive display; and

in accordance with a determination that the user input is the cover gesture over the touch-sensitive display, causing the device to enter a do not disturb (DND) mode.