Contextual Notification Triggering via Digital Assistant
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current notification systems on user devices often send notifications without considering the current context of user activity, leading to clutter and decreased usability, as they lack access to data about the user's context, resulting in important notifications being overlooked and wasting computer resources.
Innovation Solution
A contextual state-based user interface notification triggering system that uses a notification manager to select optimal times for triggering notifications based on current user context, learned behavior, and real-time signals, incorporating machine learning and data mining to provide relevant notifications at appropriate times, while maintaining user privacy and security.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If notifications are sent without considering current user context, then notification delivery is simple and fast, but notification relevance decreases and clutter increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary analysis of user context, device state, and notification importance before triggering notifications. The notification manager evaluates multiple factors in advance (current application, user activity state, time of day, device usage patterns) to determine the optimal triggering time, ensuring notifications are delivered when most likely to be noticed and acted upon.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification triggering system dynamically adapts to changing user context and device state. Instead of static scheduling, the system continuously monitors user behavior patterns, current application usage, and device state to dynamically adjust when notifications should be triggered, making the notification system responsive to real-time conditions.
2Reliability
If notifications are triggered at optimal times based on user context, then user engagement improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a notification manager as an intermediary component that sits between the notification source and the user interface. This manager abstracts the complex context-aware triggering logic from individual applications and centralizes it in a dedicated service, managing user profiles, device states, and triggering decisions in one place, thereby reducing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification manager serves multiple functions: it monitors device state, analyzes user behavior patterns, determines notification priority, selects optimal triggering times, and manages user profiles. By consolidating these diverse functions into a single universal component, the system avoids duplicating complexity across multiple applications.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple applications manage their own notifications independently, then each application has full control, but resource waste increases and usability decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges independent notification management functions from multiple applications into a single centralized notification manager. Instead of each application independently managing its notifications with duplicate logic, the system combines these functions into one shared service that handles all notifications uniformly, eliminating redundant resource consumption and improving overall efficiency.
Data Source
AI summary
Triggering of user interface notifications can be managed for a plurality of computer applications via a digital assistant, which can include a notification triggering engine. The managing can include selecting a time to trigger a user interface notification from a computer application of the plurality of computer applications. The selecting can use the data representing a current contextual user interface activity computer state. The current contextual user interface activity state can be a state other than a state of the digital assistant, the triggering engine, or a state of the computer application. The technique can further include, in response to the selecting of the time, triggering the notification in the computer system at the selected time via the digital assistant. Further, the technique can include responding to the triggering of the notification by presenting the notification on a user interface device in the computer system.