UNIFIED NOTIFICATION AND RESPONSE SYSTEM

• US 20160255480A1
• Filed: 02/26/2015
• Published: 09/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Moguillansky, Jeff
• Granted Patent: US 9,693,207 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/16 Multipoint routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

Abstract

A unified notification system in which notifications for all of a user'"'"'s devices and services appear in windows of all of the user'"'"'s devices. Notifications related to the user'"'"'s social network friends and public users that the user subscribes to may also appear in the windows of all devices. Events from the user'"'"'s devices and accounts are sent to a server for aggregation and provisioning back to the user'"'"'s devices. To this end, a HTTP API may query the server to receive the user'"'"'s notifications. Notifications that include content can also include metadata. The user can respond to any notification from any device.

Claims

1. A computer device comprising:

at least one computer readable storage medium having instructions executable by a processor;

at least one processor configured for accessing the computer readable storage medium to execute the instructions to configure the processor for;

receiving from a server via a network a notification from an apparatus correlated by the server to be associated with the computer device; and

presenting the notification, on a display not controlled by the apparatus generating the alert.

2. The computer device of claim 1, wherein the instructions when executed by the processor configure the processor for receiving notifications from plural apparatuses correlated by the server to be associated with the computer device, and presenting the notifications on the display.

3. The computer device of claim 1, wherein the instructions when executed by the processor configure the processor for presenting on the display notifications of friends of a user of the computer device.

4. The computer device of claim 1, wherein the instructions when executed by the processor configure the processor for presenting on the display notifications of public users that the user subscribes to.

5. The computer device of claim 1, wherein the instructions when executed by the processor configure the processor for sending to the server signals representing notifications received by the computer device, for provisioning of the notifications to apparatuses correlated by the server to the computer device.

6. The computer device of claim 1, wherein the instructions when executed by the processor configure the processor for executing a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) application programming interface (API) to query the server to receive notifications from apparatuses correlated by the server to the computer device.

7. The computer device of claim 1, wherein the notification includes content and metadata about the content.

8. The computer device of claim 1, wherein the instructions when executed by the processor configure the processor for presenting on the display at least one selector element, selectable to send a signal to the apparatus to respond, to the notification from the apparatus.

9. System comprising:

at least one non-transitory computer memory with instructions executable by at least one wireless communication device (WCD) associated with a user to configure the WCD to;

receive a text message from an originator device;

send the text message to at least one computerized appliance associated with the user, the computerized appliance not being the originator device;

receive from the appliance a response to the text message;

send the response received from the appliance to the originator device.

10. The system of claim 9, comprising a server relaying the text message and response between the WCD and the appliance.

11. System comprising:

at least one non-transitory computer memory with instructions executable by at least one wireless communication device (WCD) associated with a user to configure the WCD to;

record a voice message from a calling device;

send the voice message to a server for transcribing the voice message into an alpha-numeric transcription thereof for presentation of the transcription to an appliance associated at the server with the WCD;

receive voice data signals from the appliance and send the voice data signals to the originating device.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the instructions configure the WCD to communicate with a server to receive the voice data signals from the appliance.

13. The system, of claim 11, comprising the appliance, the appliance being configured with instructions to configure the appliance to present on a display associated with the appliance a notification of the voice message.

14. The system of claim 13, the appliance being configured with instructions to configure the appliance to present on the display a link to a data encoding of the voice message, the link being selectable to cause the appliance to play the voice message on at least one speaker associated with the appliance.

15. The system of claim 13, the appliance being configured with instructions to configure the appliance to receive from a microphone a voice response, the appliance being configured with instructions to configure the appliance to send the voice response to the server for provisioning of the voice response to the WCD.

16. The system of claim 13, further comprising the server.