Wireless Notification Management via Sender Suggestion Codes
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wireless devices often provide intrusive notifications for incoming communications, which can be disruptive to users and those around them, and silencing or muting these notifications may lead to missed important messages or calls.
Innovation Solution
A method where a sender wireless device can send a notification suggestion code to a recipient device, allowing it to modify or suppress notifications based on the sender's intention, such as muting, changing to a visual or haptic notification, or adjusting the priority, ensuring the notification is not disruptive.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the wireless device provides a notification of an incoming communication, then the user is alerted to the incoming message or call, but the notification becomes intrusive and disruptive to the user or people nearby
Solution Approach 1:
The notification is customized based on the sender's context and relationship to the recipient. Different notification characteristics (audible, visual, haptic, suppressed) are applied locally to different incoming communications based on their specific properties, rather than using a uniform notification approach for all communications.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification characteristics are made dynamic and adaptable. The system automatically adjusts notification behavior based on real-time factors such as the sender's location, the nature of the communication, and contextual information, allowing the notification properties to change flexibly rather than being fixed.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the wireless device mutes all notifications to avoid disruption, then the disruptive effect is eliminated, but the user may miss important messages or calls
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of uniformly muting all notifications, the system applies different notification treatments to different incoming communications based on their specific characteristics. Important communications receive audible or prominent notifications, while less critical ones may use subtle or suppressed notifications, ensuring neither disruption nor missed important messages.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback from the sender's context and communication properties to dynamically determine the appropriate notification level. This feedback mechanism allows the system to distinguish between important and non-important communications, adjusting notification behavior accordingly to maintain reliability while minimizing disruption.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If the sender wireless device sends a notification suggestion code to the recipient device, then the notification can be customized to avoid disruption, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The sender's wireless device automatically generates and attaches the notification suggestion code to outgoing communications without requiring manual user input. The recipient's device automatically processes this code and adjusts notification behavior accordingly. This self-service approach eliminates the need for complex manual notification management while achieving customized, non-disruptive notifications.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification suggestion code acts as an intermediary mechanism that carries contextual information from the sender to the recipient's device. This intermediary element enables automatic notification customization without requiring direct complex interaction between the devices or manual user configuration, simplifying the overall system while achieving the desired effect.
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AI summary
Various embodiments include methods, components and wireless devices configured to manage a presentation of the notification of an incoming communication on a wireless device. In some embodiments, a sender wireless device may send to a receiver wireless device a communication and a notification suggestion code including one or more notification suggestions that the receiver wireless device may determine to use for modifying a notification on the receiver wireless device.