Cross-environment event notification

• US 9,071,625 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2011
• Issued: 06/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Z124 LLC (Flexis)
• Original Assignee: Z124 LLC (Flexis)
• Inventors: Reeves, Paul, Liu, Wuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Mudrick, Timothy A
• Application Number:
  US13/250,764
• Publication Number:
  US 20120084793A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,369 Days
• Field of Search: 719/313
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/545 Gui
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/452 Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45533 Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45537 Provision of facilities of other operating environments, e.g. WINE I/O emulation G06F13/105
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/544 Buffers; Shared memory; Pipes
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/399 using two or more bit-mapped memories, the operations of which are switched in time, e.g. ping-pong buffers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/131 Protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/32 Architecture of open systems interconnection [OSI] 7-layer type protocol stacks, e.g. the interfaces between the data link level and the physical level
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

A mobile computing device with a mobile operating system and desktop operating system running concurrently and independently on a shared kernel without virtualization. The mobile operating system provides a user experience for the mobile computing device that suits the mobile environment. The desktop operating system provides a full desktop user experience when the mobile computing device is docked to a second user environment. Cross-environment notification and event handling allows the user to be notified of and respond to events occurring within the mobile operating system through the user environment associated with the desktop operating system. Events that may trigger cross-environment notification may be local events and/or remote events. The mobile computing device may be a smartphone running the Android mobile operating system and a full desktop Linux distribution on a modified Android kernel.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

broadcasting an event notification in a mobile operating system in response to an event occurring within the mobile operating system, the mobile operating system running concurrently and independently with a desktop operating system on a shared kernel;

receiving the event notification in a notification receiver of the mobile operating system;

filtering the event notification in an event filter of the mobile operating system for predetermined events; and

sending a cross-environment notification associated with a predetermined event to a component of the desktop operating system through an inter-process communication channel of the shared kernel based on a determination that the event notification matches the predetermined event;

wherein the broadcasting of an event notification is to systems and services of the mobile operating system that are registered to receive the event notification;

wherein the notification receiver is registered to receive the event notification; and

wherein the mobile operating system and the desktop operating system make system calls through the shared kernel without virtualized memory.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising querying the mobile operating system for a parameter associated with the event notification.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the event notification is received in a broadcast receiver of the mobile operating system.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the broadcast receiver performs runtime binding of predetermined events to cross-environment notifications.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying, by the desktop operating system, a message associated with the cross-environment notification.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying, by the desktop operating system, an icon associated with the cross-environment notification.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the event notification is received in an intent filter of a broadcast receiver of the mobile operating system.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the cross-environment notification is received in the desktop operating system by an event handler of a shared library of the desktop operating system.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile operating system comprises an Android mobile operating system and the desktop operating system comprises a Linux desktop operating system.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving, in the mobile operating system, a reply from the component of the desktop operating system indicating an action to perform in response to a user selection of a notification callback of the cross-environment notification.

11. A mobile computing device, comprising:

a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions for a physical processor;

a notification manager that broadcasts intent objects to systems and services of a mobile operating system that are registered to receive the intent objects in response to events occurring within the mobile operating system, the mobile operating system running concurrently and independently with a desktop operating system on a shared kernel of the mobile computing device, wherein the mobile operating system and the desktop operating system make system calls through the shared kernel without virtualized memory;

a broadcast receiver that receives the intent objects, the broadcast receiver registered to receive the intent objects;

an intent filter that filters the intent objects for intent objects associated with predetermined events, wherein the intent filter associates the intent objects with actions to be performed when the intent object is received; and

a cross-environment event notifier that sends cross-environment notifications associated with the predetermined events to components of the desktop operating system that instantiate event listeners of a shared library corresponding to the predetermined events.

12. The mobile computing device of claim 11, wherein the notification manager queries the mobile operating system for parameters, the parameters associated with the intent objects associated with the predetermined events.

13. The mobile computing device of claim 12, wherein the cross-environment notifications include the parameters received in response to the queries.

14. A mobile computing device including a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions for a physical processor, the instructions, when executed, causing the processor to perform steps comprising:

running a mobile operating system and a desktop operating system concurrently and independently on a shared kernel;

broadcasting an event notification in the mobile operating system in response to an event occurring within the mobile operating system;

receiving the event notification in a notification receiver of the mobile operating system;

filtering the event notification in an event filter of the mobile operating system for predetermined events; and

sending a cross-environment notification associated with a predetermined event to a component of the desktop operating system through an inter-process communication channel of the shared kernel based on a determination that the event notification matches the predetermined event;

wherein the broadcasting of an event notification is to systems and services of the mobile operating system that are registered to receive the event notification;

wherein the notification receiver is registered to receive the event notification; and

wherein the mobile operating system and the desktop operating system make system calls through the shared kernel without virtualized memory.

15. The mobile computing device of claim 14, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to perform the step of querying the mobile operating system for a parameter associated with the event notification.

16. The mobile computing device of claim 14, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to perform the step of receiving, in the mobile operating system, a reply from the component of the desktop operating system indicating an action to perform in response to a user selection of a notification callback of the cross-environment notification.

17. The mobile computing device of claim 14, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to perform the step of displaying the notification on a display of a user environment associated with the desktop operating system.

18. The mobile computing device of claim 14, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to perform the step of receiving the cross-environment notification in an event handler of a shared library of the desktop operating system.

19. The mobile computing device of claim 14, wherein the instructions further cause the processor to perform the step of sending a notification reply message from the desktop operating system to the mobile operating system indicating that the notification was received by a user.

20. The mobile computing device of claim 14, wherein the mobile operating system comprises an Android mobile operating system and the desktop operating system comprises a Linux desktop operating system.