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System and method for alerting a user on an external device of notifications or alerts originating from a network-connected device

  • US 9,560,629 B2
  • Filed: 11/25/2010
  • Issued: 01/31/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for receiving accessory-device notifications on an accessory device sent from a mobile end-user device, the system comprising:

  • an accessory-device wireless interface configured to receive at least one accessory-device notification from a number of different types of accessory-device notifications,wherein the at least one accessory-device notification is a filtered notification filtered by a filtering application installed on the mobile end-user device prior to being sent from the mobile end-user device, the filtering application configured with logic for filtering in accordance with filtering parameters,wherein the filtered notification is included in a first data transmission directly from the mobile end-user device via a short-range wireless protocol, the first data transmission having been generated by the mobile end-user device, and addressed to the accessory device by the mobile end-user device,wherein at least some contents of the filtered notification are the same as at least some contents of a mobile end-user-device notification in a second data transmission received by the mobile end-user device from a network, andwhere a final destination address of the second data transmission is the address of the mobile end-user device;

    an accessory-device memory coupled to the wireless interface and configured to store the filtered notification as a stored notification;

    wherein the mobile end-user device is configured to queue one or more additional filtered notifications other than the filtered notification sent from the mobile end-user device and stored as the stored notification,wherein the mobile end-user device is configured to send the one or more additional filtered notifications at a subsequent time to the filtered notification sent from the mobile end-user device and stored as the stored notification, andwherein the subsequent time is determined by the filtering application on the mobile end-user device;

    an accessory-device output device configured to display contents of the filtered notification to the user of the accessory device;

    an accessory-device processor coupled to the wireless interface, the memory, and the output device and configured to review the stored notification and notify the user of the accessory device by using the output device that the stored notification has been received; and

    an accessory-device input mechanism configured to enable the user tonavigate through one or more user interfaces having different types of stored notifications andselect the stored notification from the different types of stored notifications.

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