Notification Filtering for Wireless Projection Interruptions

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Solution Overview

Problem

Handheld communication devices, such as smartphones, often interrupt important events like business meetings with non-essential notifications, disrupting the user experience and potentially revealing personal information during wireless projections.

Innovation Solution

An intelligent notification filtering method that automatically establishes a high-priority list based on critical information, such as contact lists and notification types, to selectively interrupt or pending notifications during wireless projections, ensuring only important notifications are displayed and minimizing interruptions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If the smartphone displays all notification messages during wireless projection, then the user can acknowledge all live information, but the interfaces are repeatedly occupied by notification messages and important events are interrupted

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenotification informationVSAvoiduser experience during important events

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The notification system is segmented into different priority levels (high-priority and low-priority lists). High-priority notifications (e.g., from family members, emergency contacts) are displayed and can interrupt wireless projection, while low-priority notifications (e.g., from social media, games) are suppressed during projection. This segmentation allows the system to preserve important information while eliminating disruptive notifications.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different quality levels are applied to different notification sources based on their importance. Notifications from contacts in the high-priority list are treated with high quality (displayed, interruptible), while notifications from other sources are treated with low quality (suppressed, non-interruptible) during wireless projection. This local quality differentiation resolves the contradiction by preserving essential information while improving ease of operation during important events.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

2Adaptability or versatility

If the smartphone projects screen content to external display, then the user can share information in business situations, but personal information may be revealed and focus is disrupted by notifications

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvewireless projection capabilityVSAvoidprivacy exposure and interruptions

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by automatically establishing high-priority and low-priority notification lists before wireless projection begins. Contacts are pre-categorized into priority groups, and notification filters are pre-configured. When wireless projection starts, the system automatically applies these pre-established filters to suppress low-priority notifications, preventing interruptions and privacy exposure without requiring real-time user intervention.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The notification filtering system acts as an intermediary between the notification sources and the wireless projection display. It mediates by intercepting incoming notifications, evaluating their priority level against the pre-established lists, and selectively allowing or blocking them from interrupting the projection. This intermediary mechanism protects privacy and maintains focus while preserving the versatility of wireless projection capability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Ease of operation

If the smartphone establishes automatic high-priority lists, then unnecessary interruptions are reduced, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenotification managementVSAvoidnotification filtering system

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The notification filtering system provides self-service by automatically establishing and maintaining high-priority and low-priority contact lists without requiring manual user configuration. The system autonomously categorizes contacts based on their importance, automatically updates the notification filters, and applies the appropriate filtering rules during wireless projection. This self-service approach reduces ease of operation complexity while achieving the benefit of reduced unnecessary interruptions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS9641467B2Intelligent notification filtering method and handheld communication device

Publication Date: 2017.05.02 HTC CORP

AI summary

An intelligent notification filtering method is disclosed. The intelligent notification filtering method is suitable for a handheld communication device performing a wireless projection. The intelligent notification filtering method includes following steps: establishing a high-priority list automatically; in response to the handheld communication device receiving an incoming notification event, determining whether the incoming notification event is listed in the high-priority list or not; interrupting the wireless projection on the handheld communication device and displaying contents of the incoming notification event, if the incoming notification event is listed in the high-priority list; and, keeping on performing the wireless projection by the handheld communication device and setting the incoming notification event pending, if the incoming notification event is not listed in the high-priority list. In addition, a handheld communication device is also disclosed herein.