Cross-Device Notification Prioritization by Application-Type Matching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users often miss important notifications on their mobile devices when using other devices like PCs or tablets due to the lack of prioritization based on content type or usage profile, leading to a poor user experience.
Innovation Solution
A notification message processing system that prioritizes and displays notifications on a secondary device based on matching application types and user interest levels, using device tags and click frequencies to ensure important messages are displayed prominently.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If notification messages are transferred to a second electronic device without prioritization, then the user can view messages on multiple devices, but the user cannot distinguish important messages from irrelevant ones, leading to missed important notifications
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by assigning different display priorities to different notification messages based on their application types and the device tag. Important messages matching the device's primary function are displayed with higher priority (e.g., at the top of the notification bar), while irrelevant messages are displayed with lower priority. This differentiation ensures that message importance is preserved and visible to the user.
2Device complexity
If all notification messages are displayed with equal priority on the second device, then the system is simple to implement, but the user experience deteriorates due to inability to identify important messages
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the parameter of display priority based on the matching degree between notification application types and the device tag. By introducing a priority parameter that varies according to the relevance of the notification to the device's primary function, the system achieves both automated intelligent sorting (maintaining reasonable complexity) and improved user interaction ease, as users can quickly identify important messages without manual intervention.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the second device displays notifications from applications not installed on it, then the user can access messages from all devices, but irrelevant notifications increase and distract the user
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by differentiating the display treatment of notifications based on their relevance to the second device's primary function. Notifications matching the device tag are displayed with high priority, while irrelevant notifications are displayed with low priority. This selective prioritization allows the device to maintain adaptability by displaying all notifications while reducing harm by minimizing distraction from irrelevant ones.
4Reliability
If notification prioritization is based on application type matching device tag, then important messages are highlighted, but the system requires analyzing application types and device usage profiles
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-defining device tags that represent the primary functions of the second electronic device (e.g., entertainment, office work, learning). These tags are established in advance based on device usage profiles, so that when notifications are received, the system can quickly match them against the pre-established tags without complex real-time analysis. This reduces the computational complexity while maintaining reliable identification of important messages.
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AI summary
Embodiments of this application provide a notification message processing system, method, and apparatus, relating to the field of terminals, so that a user can view and process message notifications of another electronic device in time on a currently used electronic device. The method in the embodiments is applied to a communication system including a first electronic device and a second electronic device. The first electronic device sends a first notification message of a first application and a second notification message of a second application to the second electronic device. The second electronic device determines whether application types corresponding to the first notification message and the second notification message match a device tag of the second electronic device, where the device tag is used for indicating a major use of the second electronic device. If the application type corresponding to the first notification message matches the device tag, the second electronic device displays the first notification message with a first priority. If the application type corresponding to the second notification message does not match the device tag, the second electronic device displays the second notification message with a second priority. The first priority is higher than the second priority.