Managing mobile notifications received via a wireless communication network

• US 10,834,217 B2
• Filed: 08/16/2017
• Issued: 11/10/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc. (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc. (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: Yalamanchili, Kalyan C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Vostal, Ondrej C
• Application Number:
  US15/678,866
• Publication Number:
  US 20190058771A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,182 Days
• Field of Search: 709206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• 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 88/184 Messaging devices, e.g. message centre

Abstract

Mobile devices often receive mobile notifications via a wireless communication network. The mobile notifications may relate to apps operating on the mobile devices. Techniques described herein allow users to manage such mobile notifications by defining, at a mobile device, preferences for managing mobile notifications related to apps operating on the mobile device. The mobile device receives, via a wireless communication network, the mobile notifications. Based at least in part on the preferences, the mobile notifications received at the mobile device are managed.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

setting, based at least in part on input received via a user interface of a mobile device, user designated preferences in configurations for managing mobile notifications received at the mobile device;

receiving, at the mobile device via a wireless communication network, the mobile notifications, the mobile notifications comprising a first mobile notification associated with a first application operating on the mobile device and a second mobile notification associated with a second application operating on the mobile device;

based on the first mobile notification being associated with the first application, automatically organizing and displaying, via the user interface and in a first folder, the first mobile notification; and

based on the second mobile notification being associated with the second application, automatically organizing and displaying, via the user interface and in a second folder, the second mobile notification, the first mobile notification and the second mobile notification being automatically organized further based at least in part on the user designated preferences set in the configurations.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the mobile device via input from a user of the mobile device, a request to clear all mobile notifications;

prior to clearing all mobile notifications, providing, by the mobile device, an alert to the user regarding clearing of all mobile notifications; and

in response to the alert, receiving, by the mobile device via input from the user, a verification to clear all mobile notifications.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

automatically sending the mobile notifications received at the mobile device to one or more predefined recipients based on the user designated preferences in the configurations.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

classifying, by via input from a user of the mobile device, one or more mobile notifications as favorites.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

in response to clearing one or more mobile notifications that have been classified as favorites, recovering one or more of the one or more mobile notifications that have been cleared.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein setting the user designated preferences in the configurations for managing mobile notifications comprises:

limiting the mobile device from being able to recover one or more of the one or more mobile notifications that have been cleared to a predetermined amount of time.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

automatically clearing one or more mobile notifications from different applications, wherein automatically clearing the mobile notifications is based upon the mobile notifications from different applications comprising similar content.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein two or more of the mobile notifications comprise similar content and are related to at least two different ones of the applications, and further comprising:

keeping a most recently received mobile notification of the two or more of the mobile notifications.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

keeping a mobile notification from the mobile notifications from different applications that comprise similar content based upon a length of the mobile notification.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

for each folder that includes mobile notifications, displaying an indicator comprising a number of mobile notifications within a corresponding folder.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying only a predetermined number of mobile notifications per application based upon an order of receipt.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile notifications include content related to respective applications among applications operating on the mobile device, and the respective applications to which the content included in the mobile notifications is related are directed to websites of various types, and

wherein the received mobile notifications are automatically categorized into groups based on the content related to the respective applications that are directed to the websites of various types.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the first mobile notification associated with the first application is received from a first site to which the first application is directed, and the second mobile notification associated with the second application is received from a second site to which the first application is directed.

14. A mobile device comprising:

a user interface;

a processor; and

programming instructions that, when executed by the processor, program the mobile device to perform operations including;

receive, based at least in part on input received via the user interface, user designated preferences in configurations via the input, the input being received from a user of the mobile device for managing mobile notifications received at the mobile device;

receive, via a wireless communication network, the mobile notifications, the mobile notifications comprising a first mobile notification and a second mobile notification;

based on the first mobile notification or a first application with which the first mobile notification is associated, automatically organize and display, via the user interface and in a first folder, the first mobile notification; and

based on the second mobile notification or a second application with which the second mobile notification is associated, automatically organize and display, via the user interface and in a second folder, the second mobile notification, the first mobile notification and the second mobile notification being automatically organized further based at least in part on the user designated preferences in the configurations.

15. The mobile device of claim 14, wherein the operations further comprise:

receive, via input from the user of the mobile device, a request to clear all mobile notifications;

prior to clearing all mobile notifications, provide an alert to the user regarding clearing of all mobile notifications; and

in response to the alert, receive, via input from the user, a verification to clear all mobile notifications.

16. The mobile device of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise:

receive, via input from the user, a request to recover one or more mobile notifications that have been cleared.

17. The mobile device of claim 14, wherein the operations further comprise:

automatically clear one or more mobile notifications from different applications,

wherein automatically clearing the mobile notifications is based upon the mobile notifications from different applications comprising similar content.

18. The mobile device of claim 17, wherein the operations further comprise:

keep a most recently received mobile notification from the mobile notifications from different applications that comprise similar content.

19. The mobile device of claim 17, wherein the operations further comprise:

keep a mobile notification from the mobile notifications from different applications that comprise similar content based upon a length of the mobile notification.

20. The mobile device of claim 14, wherein:

only a predetermined number of mobile notifications are displayed per application based upon an order of receipt.

21. A method comprising:

setting, based at least in part on input received via a user interface of a mobile device, user designated preferences in configurations for managing mobile notifications received at the mobile device;

receiving, at the mobile device via a wireless communication network, the mobile notifications, the mobile notifications comprising a first mobile notification and a second mobile notification;

based on the first mobile notification or a first application with which the first mobile notification is associated, automatically organizing and displaying, via the user interface and in a first folder, the first mobile notification; and

based on the second mobile notification or a second application with which the second mobile notification is associated, automatically organizing and displaying, via the user interface and in a second folder, the second mobile notification, the first mobile notification and the second mobile notification being automatically organized further based at least in part on the user designated preferences set in the configurations;

receiving, at the user interface of the mobile device, a request to clear all mobile notifications;

providing, by the mobile device, an alert to a user regarding clearing of all mobile notifications;

subsequent to the alert, receiving, at the user interface, a verification to clear all mobile notifications; and

clearing all mobile notifications from the user interface.