METHOD OF PROVIDING NON-NATIVE NOTIFICATIONS AND SYSTEM THEREOF

• US 20160321121A1
• Filed: 07/13/2016
• Published: 11/03/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2011
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Bluestack Systems, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Bluestack Systems, Inc.
• Inventors: Sharma, Shashi Kant, Agrawal, Sharad, Saraf, Suman, Reese, David P. Jr.
• Granted Patent: US 10,255,080 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/178 Techniques for file synchronisation in file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/01 Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer G06F3/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45533 Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/546 Message passing systems or structures, e.g. queues
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• 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 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method of providing non-native notifications and system thereof. These notifications are generated by non-native applications that can be executed on a target device, specifically within a guest environment on the target device, or can be executed on a physically disjoint source device that is communicatively coupled with the target device via a local pairing mechanism or a service in a cloud. The application player and the source device are able to capture these non-native notifications. The target device is able to receive and present these non-native notifications to a user. Notifications include alerts, reminders, updates and messages generated by non-native applications. The user does not need to access the non-native applications, or the application player or source device they are executing on to see the non-native notifications. Instead, the user views these non-native notifications at a central location on the target device.

Claims

1-24. -24. (canceled)

25. A system comprising:

a first operating system including a notification tool that is configured to run in the first operating system and to capture notifications generated by a plurality of applications executing in the first operating system; and

a second operating system including a message center that is configured to run in the second operating system and that is communicatively coupled with the notification tool running in the first operating system, wherein the message center running in the second operating system is configured to obtain a notification that is generated by one of the plurality of applications executing in the first operating system and that is captured by the notification tool running in the first operating system, and is configured to present the obtained notification to a user.

26. The system of claim 25, wherein the application executing in the first operating system is a text message application, a news feed application, a networking application, an email application, a calendar application, a game application, a tool application, a marketing application, or an alarm application.

27. The system of claim 25, wherein the obtained notification is presented to the user in a central location of a display.

28. The system of claim 25, wherein the obtained notification is presented to a user over a work area of a display.

29. The system of claim 25, wherein the message center running in the second operating system is also configured to receive a user input, in response to the notification, in the message center, and to push the user input to the application that generated the notification in the first operating system.

30. The system of claim 29, wherein the notification tool running in the first operating system is configured to package the user input such that the application that generated the notification in the first operating system understands the user input that is received by the message center running in the second operating system.

31. The system of claim 25, wherein the second operating system is a host operating system of a computing device and the first operating system is a guest operating system of the same computing device.

32. The system of claim 25, wherein the second operating system is on a target device, and the first operating system is on a source device that is distinct and separate from the target device.

33. The system of claim 25, further comprising an account in the cloud, wherein the target device and the source device are communicatively coupled via the account in the cloud.

34. The system of claim 33, wherein the source device and the target device are each configured to at least one of publish data to the cloud and subscribe data from the cloud.

35. The system of claim 25, further comprising a third operating system including a notification tool that is configured to run in the third operating system and to capture notifications generated by a plurality of applications executing in the third operating system.

36. The system of claim 35, wherein the message center running in the second operating system is communicatively coupled with the notification tool running in the third operating system, wherein the message center running in the second operating system is configured to obtain a notification that is captured by the notification tool running in the third operating system.

37. The system of claim 25, further comprising an application player.

38. The system of claim 37, wherein the message center is integral with the application player.

39. The system of claim 37, wherein the application player is integral with the application player.

40. The system of claim 37, wherein the application player includes an application broker that interfaces with a plurality of online application sources, wherein the application player is configured to:

receive a search text with the application broker;

search each of the online application sources;

return a results list based on the search text, wherein the results list comprises one or more entries representing one or more applications from the application sources; and

display a refined results list, wherein the refined results list is determined by excluding duplicate entries from the results list that represent applications from two or more of the application sources such that each of the one or more applications are represented only a single entry.

41. A method comprising:

running a notification tool in a first operating system, wherein the notification tool is configured to capture notifications generated by a plurality of applications executing in the first operating system; and

running a message center in a second operating system, wherein the message center is communicatively coupled with the notification tool running in the first operating system and is configured to;

obtain a notification that is generated by one of the plurality of applications executing in the first operating system and that is captured by the notification tool running in the first operating system; and

to present the obtained notification to a user.