Notification Coalescing and Wake Screen Display for Easier Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
User interfaces for managing notifications on electronic devices are cumbersome and inefficient, leading to excessive energy consumption and user frustration due to confusing display and navigation issues.
Innovation Solution
Implementing methods and interfaces that allow users to adjust notification delivery preferences, coalesce notifications of the same type, and provide prompts for adjusting settings based on user interaction, using touch-sensitive displays and input devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If notifications are displayed in a detailed and comprehensive manner, then user awareness of event information is improved, but navigation complexity and time required to manage notifications increase
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system is segmented into different categories or types (e.g., social media notifications, calendar events, messaging apps). Users can selectively manage each category separately through simplified controls, reducing overall navigation complexity while maintaining comprehensive information access through organized grouping.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification interface dynamically adjusts its behavior based on user interactions and preferences. Prompts are triggered contextually when users interact with notifications, allowing the system to adapt the level of detail and management options automatically, reducing navigation time without losing information.
2Ease of operation
If users manually manage notification settings through traditional interfaces, then control over notification delivery is improved, but time consumption and energy usage increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically analyzing notification patterns and pre-configuring management recommendations. Prompts are generated in advance based on detected user behavior, allowing users to make informed decisions quickly without manually navigating complex settings, thus reducing time while maintaining control.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides feedback through contextual prompts that appear when users interact with notifications. These prompts offer actionable recommendations based on real-time usage patterns, enabling users to adjust settings efficiently with minimal manual input, reducing both time and effort required for notification management.
3Adaptability or versatility
If notification management interfaces provide comprehensive controls, then adaptability to different user needs is improved, but interface complexity and confusion increase
Solution Approach 1:
The interface applies local quality by providing customized control options at specific points in the notification flow rather than presenting a monolithic control panel. Contextual prompts appear locally where users interact with notifications, offering relevant controls only when needed, which maintains adaptability while reducing overall interface complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs self-service by automatically detecting user preferences and generating management recommendations without requiring users to navigate complex settings. The prompts are contextually generated based on notification patterns, allowing the system to adapt to user needs autonomously while keeping the interface simple and intuitive.
4Speed
If users bypass important notifications to access less important ones, then navigation speed is improved, but loss of important information increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary sorting and prioritization of notifications based on user preferences and importance criteria. By pre-organizing notifications in a structured manner with contextual prompts, users can quickly access important information without having to navigate through less important notifications, thus maintaining both speed and information completeness.
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AI summary
A computer system has a plurality of notifications in a notification history, including a first notification of a first event of a first event type and a second notification of a second event of the first event type. The first notification and the second notification are coalesced in the notification history. In response to detecting an additional event of the first event type, a third notification is created for the additional event. After creating the third notification, in response to a request to display a wake screen, the wake screen is displayed with the third notification. The third notification is displayed without information about the first notification and the second notification. After the third notification has been displayed, in response to a request to display the notification history, the notification history is displayed with a coalesced representation of the first notification and the second notification.