Notification Display Order Based on User Reaction Time

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional electronic devices display notifications in chronological order, leading to important messages being buried under less important ones, making it difficult for users to recognize high-priority notifications amidst a large number of messages.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device determines the display order of notifications based on past user reaction times, prioritizing faster-reacted-to notifications to be displayed at the top and slower-reacted-to notifications at the bottom, with customizable display information for each priority level.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If notifications are displayed in chronological order, then the display system is simple and easy to implement, but important high-priority notifications may be buried under less important ones, making it difficult for users to recognize them

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of notification displayVSAvoidvisibility of important notification

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the parameter used for sorting notifications from chronological time to user reaction time (how quickly the user typically responds to each notification). This allows important notifications that the user reacts to quickly to be displayed at the top, while less important ones are pushed down, resolving the contradiction between simple display and important notification visibility

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses feedback from past user behavior (reaction times) to dynamically adjust the display order of notifications. By monitoring how quickly users respond to different notifications, the system learns and adapts the display sequence, ensuring important notifications are prioritized without requiring complex manual configuration

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Loss of information

If all received notifications are displayed in the display region, then complete information is provided, but the display region becomes cluttered and users must scroll through many notifications to find important ones

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompleteness of notification informationVSAvoiddisplay region organization

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by displaying different numbers of notification details in different regions of the display. Important notifications at the top show more detailed information, while less important notifications at the bottom show fewer details or are summarized, reducing overall clutter while maintaining completeness of information

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentEP3573317B1Notification providing method and electronic device implementing same

Publication Date: 2022.03.02 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

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AI summary

Various embodiments provide an electronic device and a method, the electronic device comprising a memory; a communication unit; a display; and a processor functionally connected to the memory, the communication unit, or the display, wherein the processor is configured to identify log information associated with a notification received through the communication unit, determine a display order of the notification based on the log information, and display the notification on the display based on the determined display order. Also, other embodiments are possible.