Push Notification Deduplication via Time Update
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Solution Overview
Problem
The frequent receipt of push notifications from smart devices to smart phones can disturb users, affecting their normal life and work, as the same message content is often repeated, leading to unnecessary vibrations or prompt sounds.
Innovation Solution
A method and device that updates the push time of previously received notifications with the same message content in the notification bar, eliminating the need for prompts like vibrations or sounds, and determines the level of importance and frequency of notifications to decide on necessary alerts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If push notifications are frequently sent to smart telephone, then information delivery is improved, but user disturbance increases due to repeated vibrations or prompt sounds
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple push notifications with identical message content into a single notification display in the notification bar. Instead of showing separate notifications for each push, the system combines them by displaying the message content once with an updated push time, reducing the number of visual and audible prompts while preserving all information.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary comparison of message content before displaying notifications. When a push notification is received, the system first checks whether the notification bar already contains a notification with the same message content, and if so, updates its push time accordingly, preventing redundant disturbance.
2Loss of information
If same message content is displayed multiple times, then information completeness is improved, but notification frequency increases causing disturbance
Solution Approach 1:
The system combines multiple notifications with identical message content into a single entry in the notification bar, updating only the push time. This merging approach maintains information completeness by preserving the latest push time while eliminating redundant notification displays.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by treating notifications with identical message content differently from those with different content. Notifications with the same message are merged and updated, while notifications with different messages are displayed separately, optimizing the notification strategy based on content characteristics.
3Reliability
If vibration or prompt sound is generated for each notification, then user awareness is improved, but normal life and work are affected
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple push notifications into a single notification bar entry, which triggers vibration or prompt sound only once. This merging reduces the frequency of auditory and haptic disturbances while ensuring the user is still aware of the notifications through the consolidated prompt.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses periodic action by updating the push time of existing notifications rather than creating new notification entries for each push. This approach reduces the frequency of disturbance-generating actions (vibrations and sounds) while maintaining user awareness of the latest notification status.
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AI summary
A method for presenting push notifications in a terminal device configured with a notification bar may include: determining, when a push notification is received, whether the notification bar contains a target push notification, the target push notification being a previously received message with a message content as same as that of the currently received push notification; updating a push time of the target push notification to the push time of the currently received push notification in response to determining that the notification bar has contained the target push notification; and presenting the updated push time of the target push notification in the notification bar.