Method of providing activity notification and device thereof

• US 9,672,483 B2
• Filed: 03/24/2015
• Issued: 06/06/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Chae, Han-joo, Choi, Seung-eok, Nah, Hyun-soo, Ryu, Jong-hyun, Cha, Sang-ok, Choi, Won-young
• Primary Examiner(s): Tweel, Jr., John A
• Application Number:
  US14/666,981
• Publication Number:
  US 20150269834A1
• Time in Patent Office: 805 Days
• Field of Search: 34053911, 4554121, 4554143, 707694, 709224, 719318
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2358 Change logging, detection, and notification replication G06F16/27
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3344 using natural language analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063116 Schedule adjustment for a person or group
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1093 Calendar-based scheduling for persons or groups
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1097 Task assignment
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/24 Reminder alarms, e.g. anti-loss alarms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1023 Media gateways
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 999/99 dummy group

Abstract

A method of providing an activity notification is provided. The method includes registering, by the device, information about the activity notification according to a request for registering the activity notification, and transmitting, by the device, the registered information about the activity notification to a management device, wherein the management device performs a process of providing the activity notification.

Claims

1. A method of providing an activity notification, performed by a device, the method comprising:

registering, by the device, information about the activity notification according to a request for registering the activity notification, wherein the information about the activity notification comprising a context for the activity notification; and

transmitting, by the device, the registered information about the activity notification to a management device,

wherein the management device performs a process of providing the activity notification, and

wherein the registering of information about the activity notification comprises, during execution of one of an application and a service by the device, registering the information about the activity notification by using a user interface via which information about the activity notification is registered based on a framework of the activity notification.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the registering, by the device, of the information about the activity notification comprises setting the management device with respect to the process of providing the activity notification.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the process of providing the activity notification comprises at least one of a process of registering, by the management device, the information about the activity notification, a process of editing or canceling the information about the activity notification, a process of checking an activity notification triggering condition based on the context for the activity notification, or a process of triggering the activity notification based on the context for the activity notification.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the setting of the management device comprises setting the management device based on at least one of information about a user of the device, information about the device, or information about at least one external device with which the device communicates.

5. The method of claim 1,

wherein the context for the activity notification comprise a plurality of processes performed by a plurality of management devices, and

wherein the transmitting, by the device, of the information about the activity notification to the management device comprises transmitting the information about the activity notification to at least one of the plurality of management devices according to the respective plurality of processes.

6. The method of claim 1,

wherein the context for the activity notification comprise a plurality of processes performed by a plurality of management devices, and

wherein the method further comprises storing, by the device, pieces of the information about the activity notification in the device comprising information about the activity notification related to a process of the plurality of processes that is performed by the device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the management device comprises at least one of the device, a server for providing a service associated with the activity notification, or at least one external device that communicates with the device.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising, if information indicating that an activity notification triggering condition is satisfied is received from an external device, triggering the activity notification by the device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the triggered activity notification comprises information for executing a corresponding activity.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving the activity notification from at least one external device;

storing the received activity notification to the device; and

triggering the stored activity notification according to a request by a user of the device.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the information about the activity notification further comprises information about the management device, information about an activity, and activity notification triggering condition information.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the information about the activity comprises at least one of text information, still image information, audio information, video information, application link information, service link information, application function information, or service function information.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting, by the device, of the registered information is based on selecting at least one of an activity notification registration item included in menu items displayed on the device or another activity notification registration item included in a common area displayed on the device.

14. A computer readable recording medium having embodied thereon a program for executing the method of providing the activity notification of claim 1.

15. A device comprising:

an information input interface configured to input information about a request for registering an activity notification and information about the activity notification comprising a context for the activity notification;

a display configured to display information based on a user interface via which the request for registering the activity notification and information about the activity notification are input, the user interface comprising information about the activity notification based on a framework of the activity notification during execution of one of an application and a service by the device;

a storage configured to store information about the activity notification and a program for providing information about the activity notification;

a communication interface configured to communicate with at least one external device; and

a processor configured to register, to the storage, information about the activity notification received via the information input interface after the request for registering the activity notification is received, and transmit the registered information about the activity notification to the external device via the communication interface,

wherein an external device to which the registered information about the activity notification is transmitted is a management device that performs a process of providing the activity notification.

16. The device of claim 15, wherein the information about the activity notification received via the information input unit comprises information about the management device that manages the process of providing the activity notification.

17. The device of claim 16, wherein the process of providing the activity notification comprises at least one of a process of registering the information about the activity notification, a process of editing or canceling the information about the activity notification, a process of checking the activity notification triggering condition based on the context for the activity notification, or a process of triggering the activity notification based on the context for the activity notification.

18. The device of claim 15, wherein the activity notification displayed on the display unit comprises information for executing a corresponding activity.