Managing Notifications Across Multiple Devices

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016337461-A1
Application number	US-201615069872-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 14, 2016
Priority date	Jun 7, 2013
Publication date	Nov 17, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Modifying a notification on one client device can trigger the generation and transmission of a silent notification to another client device that is associated with the same user account. The silent notification can include instructions to query for and modify a similar notification, if present, on the other client device. Silent notifications that are undeliverable can be stored in offline storage and delivery can be reattempted at a later point in time.

First claim

1 . A computer implemented method, comprising:
detecting, on a client device, a modification event associated with a first notification on the client device; determining a user ID associated with the client device; transmitting, to an identity service, a request for another client device associated with the user ID; receiving a push token for addressing the another client device associated with the user ID; generating a silent notification having instructions to modify a second notification on the another client device, the second notification having the same content as the first notification; and transmitting the silent notification from the client device to the another client device, according to the push token.

2 . The computer implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving a public key representing an encryption scheme of the another client device; and encrypting, prior to transmission, content of the silent notification according to the public key.

3 . The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the first notification and the second notification are generated from a remote source.

4 . The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the modification event is a request to dismiss an alert from a lock screen of the client device.

5 . The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the modification event is a request to remove the notification from a notification center of the client device.

6 . The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the modification to the second notification is the same as the modification to the first notification.

7 . The computer implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the silent notification includes content from the first notification.

8 . A computer implemented method, comprising:
receiving, on a client device, a silent notification having instructions to modify a notification that is equivalent to another notification that has been previously modified on another client device, the silent notification including content and a desired action; matching the content with one of a plurality of notifications of the client device, the plurality of notifications being different than the notification; and performing the desired action on the matched notification.

9 . The computer implemented method of claim 8 , wherein matching comprises text matching.

10 . The computer implemented method of claim 8 , further comprising transmitting an acknowledgment of receipt of the silent notification.

11 . The computer implemented method of claim 8 , wherein matching further comprises matching an application ID of the notification with one of a plurality of notifications of the client device.

12 . A computer implemented method, comprising:
receiving, from a sending device, a silent notification for delivery at a receiving device; routing the silent notification to the receiving device; waiting a predefined period of time to receive an acknowledgment in response to routing the silent notification; storing the silent notification in a storage when the predefined period of time elapses; detecting the presence of the receiving device; and rerouting the silent notification to the receiving device in response to the detection.

13 . The computer implemented method of claim 12 , wherein the silent notification is configured to provide an instruction to modify a notification on the receiving device.

14 . The computer implemented method of claim 12 , further comprising confirming the authenticity of the silent notification.

15 . The computer implemented method of claim 14 , wherein confirming the authenticity of the silent notification includes confirming that a time to live variable of the silent notification has not expired.

Assignees

• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Vyrros Andrew H
• Shepherd Matthew Elliott
• Edwards Dylan Ross
• Wood Justin
• Pollack Daniel Ben
• De Filippis Pierre
• Drummond Jonathan
• Santamaria Justin
• Novick Greg

Classifications

• H04L51/00

  User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail · CPC title

• H04L63/0428

  wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload · CPC title

• H04W12/06

  Authentication · CPC title

• H04W4/12

  Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements · CPC title

• H04L9/30

  Public key, i.e. encryption algorithm being computationally infeasible to invert or user's encryption keys not requiring secrecy · CPC title