Alert sound alteration

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9824548-B2
Application number	US-201514986598-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 31, 2015
Priority date	Mar 30, 2015
Publication date	Nov 21, 2017
Grant date	Nov 21, 2017

Abstract

A method of updating a notification preference of a system includes detecting a remote alert, identifying at least one feature of the remote alert, determining a plurality of alerts available to the system, mapping the at least one feature of the remote alert and the available alerts to a concept map, and selecting an alert from the plurality of available alerts using the mapping, wherein a selected alert changes a notification preference of the system.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
a processor;
a memory storing a notification preference of the system and a concept map, wherein the notification preference specifies an alert sound selected from among a plurality of available alert sounds and the concept map providing a semantic distance between different ones of the plurality of alert sounds;
an alert module comprising a speaker configured to generate an alert sound using the alert sound specified by the notification preference stored in the memory;
a detector comprising an acoustic sensor configured to detect a remote alert; and
a disambiguation module embodied in a program of instructions and executed by the processor, the disambiguation module configured to update, based on the remote alert sound detected by the detector, the notification preference stored in the memory,
wherein the disambiguation module uses the concept map to selecting another alert sound of the plurality of alert sounds based on the semantic distances between the remote alert and each of the plurality of available alert sounds available to the system.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the acoustic sensor is configured to detect an audible sound corresponding to the remote alert.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the detector further comprises an electronic data scanner configured to poll at least one remote device for a corresponding notification preference specifying an audible sound corresponding to the remote alert.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the detector further comprises an electronic data scanner configured to receive a broadcast from at least one remote device, wherein the broadcast includes information about a notification preference of the at least one remote device corresponding to the remote alert.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Kozloski James R
• Pickover Clifford A
• Vukovic Maja

Classifications

• H04M1/72519

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G08B7/06

  using electric transmission {, e.g. involving audible and visible signalling through the use of sound and light sources} · CPC title

• G08B29/18

  Prevention or correction of operating errors (G08B29/02, G08B29/12 take precedence) · CPC title

• H04M19/044

  according to the level of ambient noise · CPC title

• G08B3/10 Primary

  using electric transmission; using electromagnetic transmission · CPC title