Notification bundles for affinities between notification data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10069783-B2
Application number	US-201715672256-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 8, 2017
Priority date	Nov 4, 2015
Publication date	Sep 4, 2018
Grant date	Sep 4, 2018

Abstract

In some examples, a method includes receiving, first notification data from a first application and second notification data from a second application. The method may include generating, based at least in part on comparing the first notification data to the second notification data, an affinity score that indicates whether content from the first notification data has a relationship to at least a portion of content from the second notification data. The method may include, generating a bundle notification graphical element that includes at least a portion of the content from the first notification data and a graphical indicator that indicates the content from the first and second notification data are related. The method may include outputting a set of notification graphical elements comprising the bundle notification graphical element accompanied by the graphical indicator.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a notification component that manages notifications at a computing device, first notification data and second notification data;
determining, based at least in part on the first notification data and the second notification data, whether content from the first notification data is related to at least a portion of content from the second notification data;
responsive to determining that the content from the first notification data is related to at least the portion of the content from the second notification data, generating a bundle notification graphical element that includes at least a portion of the content from the first notification data and having a visual effect that visually distinguishes the bundle notification graphical element from other types of notification graphical elements; and
outputting, by the computing device and for display, a set of notification graphical elements including the bundle notification graphical element having the visual effect.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
extracting the content from the first notification data and the content from the second notification data; and
generating a first set of n-grams based on the content from the first notification data and generating a second set of n-grams based on the content from the second notification data,
wherein determining whether the content from the first notification data is related to at least a portion of the content from the second notification data comprises determining, based on the first set of n-grams and the second set of n-grams, whether the content from the first notification data is related to at least a portion of the content from the second notification data.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein:
the set of notification graphical elements further includes a singular notification graphical notification element, and
outputting the set of notification graphical elements further comprises outputting each notification graphical element from the set of notification graphical elements in a uniform alignment along at least one of a vertical or horizontal axis of a graphical user interface that is output for display, the bundle notification graphical element and the singular notification graphical element being substantially the same size.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating a first, weighted Jaccard coefficient based at least in part on title content from the first notification data, title content from the second notification data, and a title content weight; and
generating a second, weighted Jaccard coefficient based at least in part on body content from the first notification data, body content from the second notification data, and a body content weight,
wherein determining whether the content from the first notification data is related to at least a portion of the content from the second notification data comprises determining, based at least in part on the first, weighted Jaccard coefficient and the second, weighted Jaccard coefficient, whether the content from the first notification data is related to at least a portion of the content from the second notification data.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the notification component is executing with elevated execution privileges of an operating system.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving an indication of user input that selects the bundle notification graphical element;
determining a canonical application associated with the bundle notification graphical element; and
outputting for display the canonical application.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the canonical application is an application that has generated a fewest number of instances of notification data among a set of applications, wherein each of the set of applications has generated content represented by the bundle notification graphical element.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first notification data has the relationship to at least the portion of content from the second notification data based at least in part on the first notification data originating from a same sender as the second notification data.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
responsive to querying a knowledge base, based at least in part on the content of the first notification data, receiving a first set of topics; and
responsive to querying the knowledge base, based at least in part on the content of the second notification data, receiving a second set of topics,
wherein determining whether the content from the first notification data is related to at least a portion of the content from the second notification data comprises determining whether the content from the first notification data is related to at least a portion of the content from the second notification data based at least in part on the first set of topics and the second set of topics.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving, at the notification component, third notification data;
determining, based at least in part on comparing the first notification data to the third notification data, whether content from the first notification data is related to at least a portion of content from the third notification data;
responsive to determining that the content from the first notification data is related to at least a portion of content from the third notification data and that the first notification data was received by the notification component within a time window, refraining from outputting a notification graphical element that represents the third notification data.

11. A computing device comprising:
one or more computer processors; and
a memory comprising instructions that when executed by the one or more computer processors cause the one or more computer processors to:
receive first notification data from a first application of the computing device and second notification data from a second application of the computing device;
determine, based at least in part on the first notification data and the second notification data, whether content from the first notification data is related to at least a portion of content from the second notification data;
responsive to determining that the content from the first notification data is related to at least the portion of the content from the second notification data, generate a bundle notification graphical element that includes at least a portion of the content from the first notification data and having a visual effect that visually distinguishes the bundle notification graphical element from other types of notification graphical elements; and
output, for display, a set of notification graphical elements including the bundle notification graphical element having the visual effect.

12. The computing device of claim 11 , wherein the instructions when executed by the one or more computer processors cause the one or more computer processors to:
extract the content from the first notification data and the content from the from the second notification data; and
generate a first set of n-grams based on the content from the first notification data and generate a second set of n-grams based on the content from the second notification data,
wherein the instructions that when executed by the one or more computer processors cause the one or more computer processors to determine whether the content from the first notification data is related to at least a portion of the content from the second notification data further comprise instructions that when executed by the one or more computer processors cause the one or more computer proces

Assignees

• Google Inc
• Google Llc

Inventors

• Sharifi Matthew
• Foerster Jakob Nicolaus

Classifications

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  Electricity · mapped topic

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