Dynamic event notification routing and delivery device and corresponding systems and methods

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11153147-B2
Application number	US-201916384777-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 15, 2019
Priority date	Apr 15, 2019
Publication date	Oct 19, 2021
Grant date	Oct 19, 2021

Abstract

An electronic device includes a communication device communicating with one or more Internet-of-things devices, one or more processors, and a memory. The communication device receives, from at least one Internet-of-things device, an event notification. The one or more processors identify a notification recipient to whom the event notification should be sent from a plurality of predefined system users, select a receiving electronic device from at least two electronic devices belonging to the notification recipient, convert the event notification from a first event notification type to a second event notification type that is receivable by the receiving electronic device, and transmit the event notification to the receiving electronic device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic device, comprising:
a communication device communicating with one or more Internet-of-things devices;
one or more processors operable with the communication device;
a memory operable with the one or more processors; and
the communication device receiving, from at least one Internet-of-things device, an event notification;
the one or more processors:
identifying a notification recipient to whom the event notification should be sent from a plurality of predefined system users;
selecting a receiving electronic device from at least two electronic devices belonging to the notification recipient to whom the event notification should be sent;
identifying, with the at least one Internet-of-things device, an activity being performed by the notification recipient to whom the event notification should be sent, wherein the selecting the receiving electronic device occurs as a function of the activity being performed by the notification recipient;
converting the event notification from a first event notification type to a second event notification type that is receivable by the receiving electronic device;
delaying transmitting of the event notification as a function of the activity being performed by the notification recipient by inserting delays, prior to transmitting, with these delays resulting in the event notification being transmitted at a later time; and
transmitting the event notification to the receiving electronic device at the later time.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 , the one or more processors further, with the at least one Internet-of-things device, determining a location of the notification recipient to whom the event notification should be sent, wherein the selecting the receiving electronic device occurs as a function of the location of the notification recipient.

3. The electronic device of claim 2 , the one or more processors further determining whether the activity being performed by the notification recipient to whom the event notification should be sent precludes the notification recipient to whom the event notification should be sent from responding to the event notification, and where the activity being performed by the notification recipient to whom the event notification should be sent precludes the notification recipient to whom the event notification should be sent from responding to the event notification, selecting another notification recipient to whom the event notification should be sent.

4. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the transmitting the event notification at the later time occurs when the delays inserted by the one or more processors have expired.

5. The electronic device of claim 1 , the one or more processors further determining an urgency associated with the event notification, the one or more processors overriding the delaying of the transmitting of the event notification when the event notification is an urgent notification.

6. The electronic device of claim 3 , wherein the identifying the notification recipient to whom the event notification should be sent comprises:
selecting a first person from the plurality of predefined system users when the activity is of a first type; and
selecting a second person from the plurality of predefined system users when the activity is of a second type.

7. The electronic device of claim 1 , the event notification identifying a location of an event from the event notification, wherein the identifying the notification recipient to whom the event notification should be sent comprises determining which person from the plurality of predefined system users is closest to the location of the event.

8. The electronic device of claim 1 , the communication device further receiving, from the at least one Internet-of-things device, an electronic communication identifying a person commencing an activity causing the event notification, wherein the notification recipient to whom the event notification should be sent comprises the person commencing the activity causing the event notification.

9. The electronic device of claim 1 , the communication device further receiving, from the at least one Internet-of-things device, an electronic communication identifying a person commencing an activity causing the event notification, wherein the identifying the notification recipient to whom the event notification should be sent comprises selecting another person related to the person commencing the activity causing the event notification from a plurality of persons related to the person commencing the activity causing the event notification.

10. The electronic device of claim 1 , the one or more processors further, with the at least one Internet-of-things device, identifying a field of view of the notification recipient to whom the event notification should be sent, wherein the selecting the receiving electronic device occurs as a function of the field of view.

11. The electronic device of claim 1 , further comprising an artificial intelligence engine operable with the one or more processors and the memory, the artificial intelligence engine receiving inputs from the one or more Internet-of-things devices and transforming the inputs into machine learned knowledge stored in the memory identifying persons from a plurality of persons associated with past events, wherein the identifying the notification recipient to whom the event notification should be sent comprises identifying a person from the machine learned knowledge who corresponds to an event identified by the event notification.

12. The electronic device of claim 1 , the one or more processors identifying an output capability of the receiving electronic device belonging to the notification recipient to whom the event notification should be sent, wherein the converting the event notification from the first event notification type to the second event notification type occurs as a function of the output capability of the receiving electronic device belonging to the notification recipient.

13. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the electronic device comprises an Internet-of-things device.

14. A method in an electronic device, the method comprising:
receiving, with a communication device communicating with one or more Internet-of-things devices, an event notification detected by the one or more Internet-of-things devices;
selecting, with one or more processors operable with the communication device, at least one notification recipient from a plurality of system users by determining, when multiple system users are within a vicinity of an event giving rise to the event notification, which system user is closest to the event giving rise to the event notification;
identifying, with one or more sensors of the one or more Internet-of-things devices, a plurality of electronic devices available to the at least one notification recipient;
determining, from the one or more sensors of the one or more Internet-of-things devices, at least one notification recipient activity being performed by the at least one notification recipient;
selecting, with the one or more processors, a receiving electronic device to receive the event notification as a function of the at least one notification recipient activity;
converting, with the one or more processors, the event notification from a first event notification type to a second event notification type that is receivable by the receiving electronic device; and
transmitting, with the communication device, the event notification to the receiving electronic device.

15. The method of claim 14 , further comprising delaying, with

Assignees

• Motorola Mobility Llc

Inventors

• Wu Yi
• Merrell Thomas

Classifications

• H04L67/12

  specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks · CPC title

• H04L41/147

  for predicting network behaviour · CPC title

• H04L41/149

  for prediction of maintenance · CPC title

• H04L41/06 Primary

  Management of faults, events, alarms or notifications · CPC title

• H04L41/16 Primary

  using machine learning or artificial intelligence · CPC title