Notification hardening

• US 9,235,827 B2
• Filed: 11/05/2012
• Issued: 01/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Kao, Chih-Pin Ben, Bostanci, Hakki Tunc, Varghese, Asish George, Chavva, Vinod, Fanfant, Robert Edgar
• Primary Examiner(s): Pesin, Boris
• Assistant Examiner(s): Brahmachari, Mandrita
• Application Number:
  US13/668,581
• Publication Number:
  US 20140129977A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,163 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A computing device may include at least one primary notification module and at least one secondary notification module. A notification controller module may trigger a primary notification module and a secondary notification module to generate notification messages or the controller module may trigger the primary notification module to generate a notification message. A graphics device may generate a composite notification message based at least in part on the notification messages from the primary and the secondary notification modules, where representations of the notification messages are stacked one on-top of the other in the composite notification message.

Claims

1. A method of providing notifications to a user device, the method comprising:

providing, in a user-process implemented by the user device, a first notification component that provides a first message having a message content;

providing, in a different process implemented by the user device, a second notification component that provides a second message having a message content that is the same as the message content of the first message; and

drawing the first and the second messages one on-top of the other such that a bottom one of the first and the second messages cannot be seen.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising drawing a third message on-top of the first and the second messages.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the message content of the first message and the message content of the second message are comprised of identical text.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising drawing a window of a graphical-user-interface (GUI), wherein the second message is drawn inside of the window.

5. The method as recited in claim 4, wherein the second message is drawn on-top of the first message.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the different process is a process of an operating system of the user device.

7. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the first notification component provides global notifications for the user device and the second notification module provides notifications pertaining only to a program module associated with the different process.

8. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein a top one of the first and the second messages and a bottom one of the first and the second messages are aligned such that the top one completely obscures the bottom one.

9. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

drawing a first set of one or more user-selection buttons associated with the first message;

drawing a second set of one or more user-selection buttons associated with the second message; and

based on receiving user selection of an individual user-selection button from one of the first set or the second set of user selection buttons, removing the first message and the second message.

10. A user device, comprising:

at least one processor;

at least one storage device;

a primary notification module stored in the at least one storage device and being executable by the at least one processor to provide a primary notification message having first message content;

a secondary notification module stored in the at least one storage device and being executable by the at least one processor to provide a secondary notification message having second message content that is the same as the first message content; and

a graphics device to draw a representation of the first message content and the second message content stacked one on-top of the other such that a bottom one of the first message content and the second message content cannot be seen.

11. The user device as recited in claim 10, wherein the secondary notification module is a first secondary notification module, and the user device further comprising:

at least a second secondary notification module stored in the at least one storage device and executable by the at least one processor to provide another secondary notification message, wherein the first secondary notification module is encrypted differently than the second secondary notification module.

12. The user device as recited in claim 10, wherein the secondary notification module is a first secondary notification module, and the user device further comprising:

at least a second secondary notification module stored in the at least one storage device and executable by the at least one processor; and

at least a first and a second program module stored in the at least one storage device and executable by the at least one processor, wherein the first secondary notification module provides notifications pertaining to the first program module and the second secondary notification module provides notifications pertaining to the second program module.

13. The user device as recited in claim 10, further comprising:

an operating system stored in the at least one storage device and executable by the at least one processor; and

a program module stored in the at least one storage device and executable by the at least one processor, wherein the primary notification module resides in the at least one storage device in the operating system and the secondary notification module resides in the at least one storage device in the program module.

14. The user device as recited in claim 10, further comprising:

a program module stored in the at least one storage device and executed by the at least one processor; and

a notification controller stored in the at least one storage device and executed by the at least one processor to;

intercept a resource request message from the program module;

determine whether to provide a notification pertaining to the program module in response to interception of the resource request message; and

trigger the primary and the secondary notification modules to provide the primary and the secondary notification messages, respectively, in response to a determination to provide the notification.

15. The user device as recited in claim 14, wherein the notification controller is executable by the at least one processor to further determine a display order for the first message content and the second message content.

16. One or more computer storage media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform acts comprising:

providing, in a user-process implemented by a first notification module of a user device, a first message having a first message content;

providing, in a different process implemented by a second notification module of the user device, a second message having second message content that is the same as the first message content; and

drawing the first and the second messages one on-top of the other such that a bottom one of the first and the second messages cannot be seen.

17. The one or more computer storage media as recited in claim 16, further comprising drawing a third message on-top of the first and the second messages.

18. The one or more computer storage media as recited in claim 16, wherein the first message and the second message are comprised of identical text.

19. The one or more computer storage media as recited in claim 16, further comprising drawing a window of a graphical-user-interface (GUI), wherein the second message is drawn inside of the window.

20. The one or more computer storage media as recited in claim 16, wherein the first notification component provides global notifications for the user device and the second notification module provides notifications pertaining only to a program module associated with the different process.