Notification of Mobile Device Events

• US 20090249247A1
• Filed: 01/30/2009
• Published: 10/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Johansson, Daniel, DeSalvo, Christopher J., Grimberg, Per Claes Olof, Hackborn, Dianne K., Onorato, Joseph M., Tseng, Erick, Bauer, German W., Yaksick, Jeffrey D.
• Granted Patent: US 9,154,606 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/808
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72436 for text messaging, e.g. short messaging services [SMS] or e-mails
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

A computer-implemented user notification method includes displaying, in a status area near a perimeter of a graphical interface, a notification of a recent alert event for a mobile device, receiving a user selection in the status area, and in response to the receipt of the user selection, displaying, in a central zone of the graphical interface, detail regarding a plurality of recent messaging events for the mobile device.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented user notification method, comprising:

displaying, in a status area near a perimeter of a graphical interface for a mobile device, a notification of a recent alert event for the mobile device, wherein the alert event corresponds to a change in status of an application operating on the mobile device or of an account associated with the mobile device;

receiving a selection in the status area by a user of the mobile device; and

in response to the receipt of the selection, displaying, in a central zone of the graphical interface, detail regarding a plurality of alert events for the mobile device, wherein at least some of the plurality of alert events correspond to messages received by the mobile device and the detail includes text from the messages.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the notification is displayed in place of battery and signal elements in a status bar that comprises the status area of the graphical interface.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the notification comprises text that scrolls across the status bar.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising removing the text from the status bar after scrolling the text, and displaying in the status bar an icon that visually represents an application corresponding to the alert event.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising aggregating, in the status bar, a plurality of icons that are each visually representative of one or more recently received alert events.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the text includes textual content from the alert event.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the alert event corresponds to a communication from a remote server reporting a message from two or more members of a group comprising electronic mail, chat, text messaging, voice mail, and a posting of data to a shared networked data source.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the user selection comprises a long press on a display screen of a pointing device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the display in the central zone comprises a reduced-size version of a display of an active application that was in the central zone before the user selection.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the display in the central zone comprises a list of messages from a plurality of messaging applications.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying a user-manipulable slider mechanism in response to the user selection.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising receiving a dragging manipulation of the slider mechanism across the graphical interface, moving the slider mechanism in response to the dragging mechanism, and displaying the detail regarding the plurality of recent alert events behind the slider mechanism as it is slid across the display.

13. A machine-readable data storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause one or more processors to:

display, in a status area near a perimeter of a graphical interface for a mobile device, a notification of a recent alert event for the mobile device, wherein the alert event corresponds to a change in status of an application operating on the mobile device or of an account associated with the mobile device;

receive a user selection in the status area; and

in response to the receipt of the user selection, display, in a central zone of the graphical interface, detail regarding a plurality of alert events for the mobile device, wherein at least some of the plurality of alert events correspond to messages received by the mobile device and the detail includes text from the messages.

14. The article of claim 13, wherein the notification comprises text describing the recent alert event and is displayed in place of battery and signal elements in a status bar of the graphical interface.

15. The article of claim 14, wherein the instructions further cause the one or more processors to aggregate, in the status bar, a plurality of icons that are each visually representative of one or more recently received messaging events.

16. The article of claim 13, wherein the display in the central zone comprises a list of messages from a plurality of messaging applications.

17. The article of claim 13, wherein the instructions further comprise instructions to cause the one or more processors to receive a dragging manipulation on a touch screen display of the graphical interface, from the status area and across the display, and move the slider mechanism in response to the dragging mechanism, and display the detail regarding the plurality of recent messaging events behind the slider mechanism as it is slid across the display.

18. A computer-implemented notification system, comprising:

a wireless interface to receive data for a user of a mobile computing device;

a notification manager to generate a notification message for a device event, including device events received through the wireless interface, where the notification message includes information that describes the device event;

a display manager, operable with a computer processor, to generate elements for a graphical display, to receive the notification message and to present the notification message in a first zone near a perimeter of the graphical display; and

an electronic input device to receive a user selection in the first zone, wherein in response to the user selection, the display manager displays, in a central zone of the graphical interface, detail information regarding a plurality of recent messaging events for the mobile device.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the display manager displays the notification message as text that scrolls in a status bar area of the graphical display.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the display manager is adapted to remove the text from the status bar and display in the status bar an icon that visually represents an application corresponding to the messaging event.

21. A computer-implemented notification system, comprising:

a wireless interface to receive data that includes messages for a user of a mobile device;

a notification manager, operable on a computer processor, to generate a notification message for a received message that includes information that describes the message; and

means for generating a display of information corresponding to the notification message on a graphical display.

22. The system of claim 21, further comprising means for generating, in response to a user selection, a display of detail information regarding a plurality of recent messaging events for the mobile device.