Electronic device and method of providing notification by electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9723589-B2
Application number	US-201514833633-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 24, 2015
Priority date	Aug 29, 2014
Publication date	Aug 1, 2017
Grant date	Aug 1, 2017

Abstract

A method and electronic device are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a display and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to implement the method, including receiving a first notification for a first application, generating, by at least one processor, a first notification page including at least a part of the first notification, generating an abstract page including a first object related to the first notification and displaying the abstract page on a display, and switching from displaying the abstract page to displaying the first notification page in response to detecting an input signal selecting the first object, wherein the abstract page and the first notification page are generated and displayed based on a same application or home application.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method in an electronic device, comprising:
receiving a first notification for a first application and a second notification for a second application different from the first application;
generating, by at least one processor, a first notification page including at least a part of the first notification and a second notification page including at least part of the second notification;
generating an abstract page including a first object related to the first notification and a second object related to the second notification;
displaying the abstract page on a display;
switching from displaying the abstract page to displaying the first notification page in response to detecting an input signal selecting the first object; and
switching from displaying the abstract page to displaying the second notification page in response to detecting the input signal selecting the second object,
wherein the abstract page, the first notification page, and the second notification page are generated and displayed based on a same or home application.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first object and the second object are arranged on the abstract page according to a predetermined condition.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
in response to receiving an input signal for displaying the abstract page on the first notification page or the second notification page, displaying the abstract page on the display.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving one or more additional notifications for the first application;
adding the one or more additional notifications to the first notification page; and
displaying the one or more additional notifications with the first notification page when the first notification page is displayed according to a predetermined user input signal.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein notifications in the first notification page are each displayable as an image screen, and arranged in a particular order, the method further comprising variably displaying the image screens by varying a total displayable number of the image screens or varying a size of the image screens in the first notification page according to a variable input signal.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the variable input signal comprises a pinch zoom input signal.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
in response to receiving a request to execute the first application on the first notification page, executing the first application.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising: determining whether the electronic device is in a stand alone mode,
wherein executing of the first application comprises: executing the first application when the electronic device is in the stand alone mode, and transmitting a first application execution control signal to another electronic device connected to the electronic device when the electronic device is not in the stand alone mode.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining whether the electronic device is in a stand alone mode,
wherein the first application is embedded in the electronic device when the electronic device is in the stand alone mode; and
the notification is received from an external electronic device communicatively connected to the electronic device when the electronic device is not in the stand alone mode.

10. An electronic device comprising:
a display; and
at least one processor, configured to:
receive a first notification for a first application and a second notification for a second application different from the first application;
generate a first notification page including at least a part of the first notification and a second notification page including at least part of the second notification;
generate an abstract page including a first object related to the first notification and a second object related to the second notification;
displaying the abstract page on a display; and
control the display to switch from displaying the abstract page to displaying the first notification page in response to detecting an input signal selecting the first object and switch from displaying the abstract page to displaying the second notification page in response to detecting the input signal selecting the second object,

wherein the abstract page, the first notification page, and the second notification page are generated and displayed based on a same application.

11. The electronic device of claim 10 , wherein the first object and the second object are arranged on the abstract page according to a predetermined condition.

12. The electronic device of claim 10 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
receive one or more additional notifications for the first application;
add the one or more additional notifications to the first notification page; and
control the display to display the one or more additional notifications with the first notification page when the first notification page is displayed according to a predetermined user input signal.

13. The electronic device of claim 12 , wherein notifications in the first notification page are each displayable as an image screen, and arranged in a particular order, the at least one processor further configured to variably display the image screens on the display by varying a total displayable number of the image screens or varying a size of the image screens in the first notification page according to a variable input signal.

14. The electronic device of claim 10 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
in response to receiving a request to execute the first application on the first notification page, execute the first application.

15. The electronic device of claim 14 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
determine whether the electronic device is in a stand alone mode,
wherein executing of the first application comprises: executing the first application when the electronic device is in the stand alone mode, and transmitting a first application execution control signal to another electronic device connected to the electronic device when the electronic device is not in the stand alone mode.

16. The electronic device of claim 10 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:
determine whether the electronic device is in a stand alone mode,
wherein the first application is embedded in the electronic device when the electronic device is in the stand alone mode; and
the notification is received from an external electronic device communicatively connected to the electronic device when the electronic device is not in the stand alone mode.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Cho Eunbi
• Park Hyunjung
• Lee Junho
• Park Jihwa
• Jo Daehyung
• Choi Dongjin

Classifications

• H04M2250/60

  logging of communication history, e.g. outgoing or incoming calls, missed calls, messages or URLs · CPC title

• H04W68/02 Primary

  Arrangements for increasing efficiency of notification or paging channel · CPC title

• H04M1/72547

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M1/72552

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M1/7253

  Electricity · mapped topic