Generating Context-Based Options for Responding to a Notification

• US 20130328665A1
• Filed: 06/06/2012
• Published: 12/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Sabatelli, Alessandro F., Pitschel, Donald W., Cranfill, Elizabeth F.
• Granted Patent: US 9,804,740 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/7.55
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location

Abstract

A user of a programmable device has a context that may be evaluated and compared to a context of a notification generated by the operating system or an application running on the programmable device. The comparison may be used to generate one or more optional responses to the notification that may allow additional functionality beyond dismissing the notification or opening a corresponding event entry.

Claims

1. A non-transitory program storage device, readable by a programmable control device, comprising instructions stored thereon for causing the programmable control device to:

receive a notification from a notification service of an operating system of a programmable device;

evaluate a first context of the notification;

evaluate a second context of a user of the programmable device; and

offer to the user a first optional response to the notification based, at least in part, on the first context and the second context.

2. The program storage device of claim 1, wherein the instructions stored thereon further comprise instructions for causing the programmable control device to:

offer to the user a default optional response to the notification.

3. The program storage device of claim 1, wherein the instructions for causing the programmable control device to evaluate a first context of the notification comprise instructions for causing the programmable control device to:

determine a location and time of an event corresponding to the notification.

4. The program storage device of claim 1, wherein the instructions for causing the programmable control device to evaluate a first context of the notification comprise instructions for causing the programmable control device to:

determining a type of event corresponding to the notification.

5. The program storage device of claim 1, wherein the instructions for causing the programmable control device to evaluate a second context of a user of the programmable device comprise instructions for causing the programmable control device to:

determine a location of the user of the programmable device.

6. The program storage device of claim 1,

wherein the instructions for causing the programmable control device to evaluate a second context of a user of the programmable device comprise instructions for causing the programmable control device to:

determine a type of the notification; and

determine a history of responses selected by the user of the programmable device to notifications of the determined type of the notification;

wherein the instructions for causing the programmable control device to offer to the user a first optional response comprise instructions for causing the programmable control device to;

generate a plurality of responses to the notification for offering to the user based, at least in part, on the first context and the second context; and

select the first optional response from the plurality of responses responsive to the history of responses selected by the user.

7. The program storage device of claim 1, wherein the instructions for causing the programmable control device to offer to the user the first optional response comprise instructions for causing the programmable control device to configure the first optional response to generate a second notification by the notification service.

8. The program storage device of claim 1, wherein the instructions for causing the programmable control device to offer to the user the first optional response comprise instructions for causing the programmable control device to:

transmit a request to an agent to perform an action corresponding to the first context and the second context.

9. The program storage device of claim 1, wherein the instructions for causing the programmable control device to offer to the user the first optional response comprise instructions for causing the programmable control device to:

transmit a request to a user of another programmable device to perform an action.

10. The program storage device of claim 1, wherein the instructions stored thereon further comprise instructions for causing the programmable control device to:

perform an action automatically based at least in part on the first context and the second context.

11. The program storage device of claim 10, wherein the instructions for causing the programmable control device to perform an action automatically comprise instructions for causing the programmable control device to:

transmit a request to an agent to perform an action corresponding to the intersection of the first context and the second context.

12. The program storage device of claim 10, wherein the instructions for causing the programmable control device to perform an action automatically comprise instructions for causing the programmable control device to:

transmit a message to a user of another programmable device.

13. The program storage device of claim 12, wherein the message comprises a request to perform an action.

25. The programmable device of claim 10, wherein the action comprises:

transmitting a message to a user of another programmable device.

14. A non-transitory program storage device, readable by a programmable control device, comprising instructions stored thereon for causing the programmable control device to:

receive a notification from a notification service of an operating system of a programmable device;

evaluate a first context of the notification;

evaluate a second context of a user of the programmable device;

offer to the user a default optional response to the notification; and

offer to the user a first optional response to the notification based, at least in part, on the first context and the second context, comprising instructions for causing the programmable control device to;

generate a plurality of responses to the notification for offering to the user based, at least in part, on the first context and the second context; and

select the first optional response from the plurality of responses responsive to the history of responses selected by the user.

15. The program storage device of claim 14, wherein the offer to the user further comprises instructions for causing the programmable control device to transmit a request to a user of another programmable device to perform an action.

16. A programmable device, comprising:

a programmable control device;

a memory, coupled to the programmable control device;

an operating system stored in the memory, comprising;

logic to generate notifications to a user of the programmable device; and

logic to offer an optional response to a notification, based at least in part on a context of the notification and a context of the user.

17. The programmable device of claim 16, wherein the operating system further comprises:

logic to indicate a default optional response to the notification.

18. The programmable device of claim 16, wherein the logic to offer an optional response comprises:

logic determine a location and time of an event corresponding to the notification; and

logic to determine a type of event corresponding to the notification.

19. The programmable device of claim 16, wherein the logic to offer an optional response comprises:

logic to determine a location of the user of the programmable device.

20. The programmable device of claim 16, wherein the logic to offer an optional response comprises:

logic to generate a plurality of responses to the notification for offering to the user based, at least in part, on the first context and the second context;

logic to evaluate a history of responses selected by the user of the programmable device to notifications; and

logic to select the first optional response from the plurality of responses responsive to the evaluation of the history of responses.

21. The programmable device of claim 16, wherein the first optional response is configured to generate a second notification by the notification service.

22. The programmable device of claim 16, further comprising:

logic to receive a user selection of the optional response and perform an action associated with that response.

23. The programmable device of claim 22, wherein the action comprises:

transmitting a request to an agent to perform an action

24. The programmable device of claim 22, wherein the action comprises:

transmitting a request to a user of another programmable device to perform an action.

26. The programmable device of claim 16, wherein logic to offer an optional response comprises:

logic to obtain the context of the user;

logic to obtain the context of the notification;

logic to determine an intersection of the context of the user and the context of the notification; and

logic to generate an optional response based on the intersection of the context of the user and the context of the notification.

27. A method comprising:

generating a notification to a user of the programmable device of an event;

comparing a context of the notification with a context of the user;

offering an optional response to the notification responsive to the comparison of the context of the notification with the context of the user;

receiving a selection of the optional response; and

performing an action corresponding to the optional response.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein performing an action corresponding to the optional response comprises transmitting a message to a user of another programmable device.

29. The method of claim 27, wherein performing an action corresponding to the optional response comprises transmitting a request to an agent to perform an action corresponding to the context of the user and the context of the notification.

30. The method of claim 27, further comprising:

evaluating the context of the notification; and

evaluating the context of the user.