Mobile notifications based upon notification content

• US 9,813,882 B1
• Filed: 06/25/2012
• Issued: 11/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Masterman, Michael F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Khan, Mehmood B
• Application Number:
  US13/531,915
• Time in Patent Office: 1,961 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/185 by embedding added-value information into content, e.g. geo-tagging

Abstract

Disclosed are various embodiments employed to generate device notifications based upon notification content. To this end, a request to generate a device notification is obtained from a user application. Notification content is extracted from the request and an escalated or de-escalated notification level is applied when the content corresponds to a notification rule stored in the device.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having program instructions stored thereon and executable by a mobile computing device, the program instructions, when executed by the mobile computing device, causing the mobile computing device to:

identify a programmatic call to a notification library of an operating system of the mobile computing device invoked by a user application to generate a mobile device notification to be displayed locally on the mobile computing device, wherein the programmatic call comprises an application programming interface (API) call to the notification library invoked by the user application;

analyze the programmatic call to identify a first task to be performed locally on the mobile computing device to display notification content in association with the mobile device notification, the notification content comprising textual content, the first task to be performed locally on the mobile computing device comprising at least one of;

displaying the notification content in an operating system user interface, activating a light emitting diode (LED), playing a sound, or activating a vibration motor of the mobile computing device;

identify a notification rule associated with the notification content, wherein the notification rule comprises a predefined word or a predefined punctuation specified by a user of the mobile computing device;

identify an escalated notification level associated with the notification rule in response to the textual content of the notification comprising at least one of the predefined word or the predefined punctuation specified previously by a user;

identify a second task to perform locally on the mobile computing device in place of the first task based at least in part on the escalated notification level, the second task being different than the first task; and

cause performance of the second task in association with the mobile device notification on the mobile computing device in accordance with the escalated notification level.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the notification library comprises a portion of an operating system executable by the mobile computing device.

23. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the second task to be performed locally on the mobile computing device comprises at least one of:

displaying the notification content in an operating system user interface, activating the light emitting diode (LED), playing the sound, or activating the vibration motor of the mobile computing device.

24. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the second task further comprises launching an application in the mobile computing device specified by the notification rule.

25. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, further comprising program instructions that, when executed by the mobile computing device, cause the mobile computing device to perform a modification of the notification rule associated with the notification content.

26. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 25, wherein performing the modification of the notification rule associated with the notification content further comprises further escalating the escalated notification level associated with the notification rule in response to a user interaction with the second task being detected.

27. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 25, wherein performing the modification of the notification rule associated with the notification content further comprises de-escalating the escalated notification level associated with the notification rule in response to a user interaction with the second task not being detected.

2. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

obtaining, by a mobile computing device, a notification data item associated with at least one application executed by the mobile computing device in response to a programmatic call to an operating system function invoked by a user application to display notification content included within the notification data item, wherein the notification data item is specified in the programmatic call;

extracting, by the mobile computing device, the notification content from the notification data item and a first task to be performed in association with a display of the notification data item on the mobile computing device, the notification content comprising textual content and punctuation;

determining, by the mobile computing device, that at least a portion of the textual content or the punctuation of the notification content is associated with a notification rule specifying a notification level associated with the notification content; and

generating, by the mobile computing device, a second task to be performed in place of the first task, the second task being identified based at least in part on the notification level.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the second task further comprises at least one of:

rendering a notification user interface element in a display device associated with the mobile computing device, playing an audible notification via a speaker associated with the mobile computing device, activating a vibration motor associated with the mobile computing device, or generating a visual notification via at least one externally visible light emitting diode (LED) associated with the mobile computing device.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the second task further comprises launching an application in the mobile computing device specified by the notification rule.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, further comprising:

obtaining, by the mobile computing device, a user input in response to the second task being performed on the mobile computing device; and

performing, by the mobile computing device, a modification of the notification rule associated with the notification content based at least in part upon the user input, wherein the modification of the notification rule causes the mobile computing device to perform a third task in response to an identification of subsequent notification data having the notification level, the third task being a user task performed when providing the user input.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein performing the modification of the notification rule associated with the notification content further comprises:

escalating, by the mobile computing device, the notification level associated with the notification rule in response to a user interaction with the device notification being detected;

or

de-escalating, by the mobile computing device, the notification level associated with the notification rule in response to a lack of user interaction with the device notification being detected.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the notification rule specifies the notification level based at least in part the punctuation in the notification content.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the notification rule specifies the notification level based at least in part upon a capitalization of a letter of the textual content.

7. A system, comprising:

a mobile computing device comprising at least one hardware processor in data communication with an electronic data store, the mobile computing device having a notification library stored thereon configured to;

identify a function call to the notification library invoked by a user application executed in the mobile computing device to generate a device notification in the mobile computing device;

identify notification content and a first task to be performed on the mobile computing device in response to the function call, the notification content comprising textual content and punctuation;

determine that at least a portion of the textual content or the punctuation of the notification content corresponds to a notification rule stored in the mobile computing device, wherein the notification rule comprises the textual content or the punctuation specified by a user;

identify a notification level associated with the notification rule; and

perform a second task in place of the first task based at least in part on the notification level.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the notification level associated with the notification rule comprises one of an escalated or de-escalated notification level relative to a requested notification level.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the first task or the second task comprise at least one of:

generating a notification user interface element, initiating playback of a sound, activating a light emitting diode (LED) integrated with the mobile computing device, or activating a vibration motor integrated with the mobile computing device.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the notification rule specifies at least one of a repeat frequency, a repeat pattern, or an intensity associated with the combination of the at least one of:

generating the notification user interface element, initiating playback of the sound, activating the light emitting diode (LED) integrated with the mobile computing device, or activating the vibration motor associated with the mobile computing device.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the mobile computing device is further configured to determine that the notification content corresponds to the notification rule stored in the electronic data store by determining that the notification content contains the punctuation specified by the notification rule.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein the mobile computing device is further configured to determine that the notification content corresponds to the notification rule stored in the electronic data store by determining that the textual content contains at least one keyword specified by the notification rule.

13. The system of claim 7, wherein the mobile computing device is further configured to determine that the notification content corresponds to the notification rule stored in the electronic data store by:

extracting a proper name from the textual content; and

determining that the proper name corresponds to a linked user account of a social networking system that is associated with a user account of the social networking system corresponding to the mobile computing device.

14. The system of claim 7, wherein the mobile computing device is further configured to determine that the notification content corresponds to the notification rule stored in the electronic data store by:

extracting at least one of a date or a time from the notification content;

determining the notification content corresponds to an event stored in a calendar stored in the electronic data store; and

associating the notification content with an escalated notification level when the notification content corresponds to the event stored in the calendar.

15. The system of claim 7, wherein the mobile computing device is further configured to determine that the notification content corresponds to the notification rule stored in the electronic data store by:

determining that the notification content corresponds to an event stored in a calendar stored in the electronic data store; and

associating the notification content with an escalated notification level when the event occurs within a configurable amount of time from receipt of the function call.

16. The system of claim 7, wherein the mobile computing device is further configured to determine that the notification content corresponds to the notification rule stored in the electronic data store by:

determining that the notification content corresponds to an event stored in a calendar stored in the electronic data store; and

associating the notification content with an escalated notification level when a sender of a message associated with the notification is at least one of an invitee, an attendee, or a meeting organizer.

17. The system of claim 7, wherein the mobile computing device is further configured to determine that the notification content corresponds to the notification rule stored in the electronic data store by:

determining that the notification content corresponds to a calendar invitation; and

associating the notification content with an escalated notification level when a meeting time associated with the calendar invitation is within a predetermined threshold amount of time from a current time.

18. The system of claim 7, wherein the mobile computing device is further configured to determine that the notification content corresponds to the notification rule stored in the electronic data store by:

determining that the notification content corresponds to a calendar invitation; and

associating the notification content with an escalated notification level when a user associated with the calendar invitation comprises a contact entry in an address book stored on the mobile computing device and at least one of an invitee, an attendee, or a meeting organizer.

21. The system of claim 7, wherein the mobile computing device is further configured to determine that the notification content corresponds to the notification rule stored in the electronic data store by:

extracting a proper name from the textual content; and

determining that the proper name corresponds to a linked user in at least one of a contact store associated with the mobile computing device.