TW201624333A - Cross-account notification method and electronic device - Google Patents

Abstract

A Cross-account notification method and an electronic using the same are provided. The method includes marking a plurality of applications of a plurality of accounts of the electronic device; receiving a first notification from a marked first application of a first account among the accounts; determining whether need to transmit the first notification to the second account according to a notification configuration; and transmitting the first notification to the second account according to the notification configuration if determining that it is need to transmit the first notification to the second account.

Description

Cross-account notification method and electronic device

This case is related to a notification method, and in particular to a cross-account notification method and an electronic device.

In general, when using a personalized electronic device, a user often needs to use a group of accounts to log in to the operating system for operation. For example, the user logs in to the account "A" to the electronic device, and installs/executes the application "a" in the operating system to which the account "A" is registered. However, applications installed under different accounts cannot be executed across accounts. Therefore, when the user logs in to the same electronic device as the account "B", the user cannot execute the application "a" installed in the account "A", and the user cannot know that the account "A" is installed at this time. The event notification sent by the application "a". That is to say, since the event notification of the application cannot be delivered immediately across the account, the user cannot respond to the event notification of the application from the account that is not currently logged in, which causes work inconvenience.

The present disclosure discloses a cross-account notification method for an electronic device that has registered multiple accounts, wherein multiple user accounts have been registered to the electronic device, including: providing notification settings; marking multiple applications of the account for receiving a plurality of notifications from the tagged application of the account; receiving a first notification from the tagged first application of the first account in the account; determining whether to transmit the first notification to the second account based on the notification setting; And when it is determined that the first notification needs to be transmitted to the second account, the first notification is transmitted to the second account according to the notification setting.

The present disclosure further discloses an electronic device in which a plurality of accounts are registered to an electronic device, and the electronic device includes a display unit, a storage unit, a receiving module, a notification management module, and a processing unit. The receiving module is disposed in the storage unit to mark multiple applications of the account and receive multiple notifications from the marked application. The notification management module is disposed in the storage unit for storing the notification settings and managing the received notifications. The processing unit is coupled to the storage unit and the display unit. Additionally, the receiving module receives the first notification from the tagged first application of the first account in the account. The notification management module determines, according to the notification setting, whether to transmit the first notification to the second account, wherein when it is determined that the first notification needs to be transmitted to the second account, the notification management module transmits the first notification to the second account according to the notification setting.

In order to make the above features and advantages of the present invention more comprehensible, the following embodiments are described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. Referring to FIG. 1 , the electronic device 10 includes a display unit 100 , a processing unit 200 , and a storage unit 300 . In this embodiment, the electronic device 10 is, for example, a mobile device (eg, a mobile phone, a PDA, a tablet), a personal computer, a notebook computer, or the like, or other electronic device that can also have multiple accounts.

In the present embodiment, as above, the account refers to an account used by the user to log in to the operating system of the electronic device. Usually, the user uses the user account name and password of the corresponding account to perform verification, so that after the verification is passed, the operation authority of the electronic device is obtained correspondingly, and the working environment of the account registered in the operating system is entered. For convenience of explanation, the concept of the present invention will be described below using a smart phone as the electronic device 10 as an example.

The display unit 100 is for displaying the main screen of the operating system of the electronic device 10 or the content played. For example, the display unit 100 may be a liquid crystal display (LCD), a Light-Emitting Diode (LED) display, or a Field Emission Display (FED). The display unit 100 can display display and touch simultaneously with a display panel of other types of displays and a touch panel such as a resistive, capacitive or optical touch panel. The operation function, or other display that can provide a display function, is not limited to the present invention.

The storage unit 300 is configured to store user data or control or manage the software/firmware of the electronic device. The storage unit 300 can be any type of hard disk drive (HDD) or non-volatile memory storage device. For example, corresponding to the electronic device 10 of the smart phone, the storage unit 300 is a non-volatile memory storage device.

In addition, in this embodiment, a plurality of modules are configured (or stored) in the storage unit 300, such as a system user interface (System UI) installed in the electronic device 10, or an operating system integrated into the electronic device 10. The code. In this embodiment, the plurality of modules includes a receiving module 310 and a notification management module 320. Briefly, the receiving module 310 is used to tag multiple applications of an account to receive multiple notifications from multiple applications of the account. The notification management module 320 is configured to store the notification settings and thereby manage the notifications received from the receiving module 310.

In this embodiment, the receiving module 310 and the notification management module 320 are continuously operated in the electronic device 10. In addition, the receiving module 310 and the notification management module 320 operate independently of the plurality of accounts of the electronic device 10, regardless of whether a new account is logged into the electronic device 10, and the operating module of the receiving module 310 and the notification management module 320 It will not be interrupted. The function and operation mode of the receiving module 310 and the notification management module 320 will be described in detail below with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3.

The processing unit 200 is coupled to the display unit 100 and the storage unit 300. The processing unit 200 is a hardware (for example, a chipset, a processor, etc.) having computing power for controlling the overall operation of the electronic device 10. In this embodiment, the processing unit 200 is, for example, a central processing unit (CPU), a microprocessor (micro-processor), or other programmable processing unit (Microprocessor), a digital signal processor ( Digital Signal Processor (DSP), programmable controller, Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC), Programmable Logic Device (PLD), or the like. The processing unit 200 is configured to access and execute the receiving module 310 and the notification management module 320 stored in the storage unit 300, so as to implement the cross-account notification method provided by the embodiment.

The cross-account notification method provided by this embodiment will be described in detail below with reference to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2. 2 is a flow chart showing the steps of a cross-account notification method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 simultaneously, in step S210, the receiving module 310 is configured to mark multiple applications under multiple accounts in the electronic device 10 and receive multiple notifications from the marked applications in the account.

In an embodiment, after logging in to an account (hereinafter also referred to as a first account), the user may perform a notification setting operation to perform an account corresponding to the stored notification setting via the notification management module 320. Customized settings. And accordingly, a notification (hereinafter also referred to as a first notification) of a plurality of applications (hereinafter also referred to as first applications) from the first account is managed. It should be noted that the interface of the notification setting is presented in this case without limitation.

In an embodiment, the notification setting includes: setting whether to notify the account other than the first account, and designating the receivable account, and then further specifying whether the notification mode is one-way or two-way, or specifying whether the first disclosure needs to be completely disclosed. A text message in your account. This will be described in more detail below. In an embodiment, the notification setting may be more than two.

In this embodiment, the user can mark the application A in the first account in the notification setting to indicate that the user wants to receive the notification of the marked application A in the first account after logging in with another account. . For example, assume that the first application of the first account is an instant messaging application and the user marks the instant messaging application in the notification settings. According to the notification setting described above, the receiving module 310 correspondingly marks the instant messaging application and waits to receive notifications from the tagged instant messaging application. In addition, in this embodiment, the notification setting management module 320 determines the execution program of the marked application (such as the instant messaging application of this example) and receives the notification of the marked application.

In another embodiment, the notification setting management module 320 further instructs the processing unit 200 to maintain the basic operation of the instant messaging application. For example, the notification setting management module 320 may instruct the processing unit 200 not to clear the processing program of the current instant messaging application. In other words, after the first account logs out of the electronic device 10, the processing unit 200 continues to execute the instant messaging application in the background. In this way, the instant messaging application can transmit a first notification corresponding to the first event to the receiving module 310 when a first event occurs.

It should be noted that in another embodiment, the settings of the markup application can be preset. For example, all applications under the first account are preset to transmit the first notification to an account other than the first account, that is, the receiving module 310 receives notifications from all applications (like marking all applications). ). For example, it is preset that the application executed by the user in the first account is marked by the receiving module 310, that is, the application is marked by the user usage habit.

In step S220, the receiving module 310 receives the first notification from the marked first application of the first account in the account. In an embodiment, since the receiving module 310 marks the first application, the first application that is marked may transmit a first notification corresponding to the first event to the receiving module 310 when the first event occurs.

In step S230, the notification management module 320 determines whether it is necessary to transmit the first notification to the second account according to the notification setting. In an embodiment, since the first account to which the first application that sent the first notification belongs is different from the second account currently logged into the electronic device 10, the notification management module 320 stores the first account according to the first account. The notification setting determines whether the first notification needs to be transmitted to the second account. In other words, the user can set whether to send the notification of the application of the first account to the other account in the notification setting when logging in using the first account. In this embodiment, the number of second accounts may be 1 or greater.

In an embodiment, after the first account is logged into the electronic device 10, the notification management module 320 can determine whether to notify the notification of the markup application from the first account to the second account according to the notification setting. The notification setting may, for example, set a one-way or two-way transmission of the notification between the first account and the second account, or set a master-slave relationship between the accounts, or set not to transmit the notification, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

In an embodiment, the notification management module 320 further identifies the account currently logged into the electronic device 10. If the notification management module 320 recognizes that the account currently logged into the electronic device is the first account, the notification management module 320 directly transmits the first notification to the first account. If the notification management module 320 recognizes that the account currently logged into the electronic device is the second account, the notification management module 320 determines whether the received first notification is to be transmitted to the second account currently logged in.

In an embodiment, if the notification between the first account and the second account recorded in the notification setting is one-way or two-way, the notification management module 320 determines that the first notification needs to be transmitted to the second account, as in the step. S240, or a notification from the second account, is also required to be transmitted to the first account. In addition, if the notification is not transmitted between the first account and the second account recorded in the notification setting, the notification management module 320 determines that the first notification to the second account is not required to be transmitted.

If in step S230, the notification management module 320 determines that the first notification needs to be transmitted to the second account. Next, in step S240, the notification management module 320 transmits the first notification to the second account according to the notification setting. In this way, when the user logs in to the electronic device 10 by using the second account, the notification of the application from the first account can also be immediately known.

Further, if the notification management module 320 determines in step S230 that the first notification is not required to be transmitted to the second account. Proceeding to step S250, the notification management module 320 does not transmit the first notification to the second account.

In this embodiment, the content of the first notification transmitted to the second account may be adjusted. Hereinafter, how to adjust the first notification to become the second notification and the details in step S250 in the present embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1, 2, and 3.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing the steps of adjusting the first notification to become the second notification according to an embodiment of the invention. Please refer to FIG. 1 , FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 simultaneously, and step S240 further includes steps S241 to S246 illustrated in FIG. 3 . In this embodiment, if the step of step S230, the notification management module 320 determines that the first notification needs to be transmitted to the second account, in step S241, the notification management module 320 may correspond to the first account according to the notification setting. The first notification adjusts the setting to determine whether the first notification needs to be adjusted.

Specifically, the user can adjust the settings via the notification in the setting notification to set whether the notification transmitted from the application of the first account to the second account needs to be adjusted. If the notification is adjusted, the notification from the application of the first account received by the second account may be different from the notification sent by the application of the first account to the receiving module 310. In another embodiment, the notification adjustment settings may be separately set for each application of the first account. In other words, some applications of the first account can be set so that the issued notifications will be adjusted and then transferred to the second account, while another part of the application can be set to notify that the notifications sent will not be adjusted, but The original appearance of the notification is directly maintained for transmission to the second account.

In step S241, the notification management module 320 determines that the first notification needs to be adjusted, and then proceeds to step S242, the notification management module 320 adjusts the first notification to be the second according to the first notification adjustment setting corresponding to the first account in the notification setting. Notice. The second notification is different from the first notification.

For example, the types of the first notification and the second notification include an audible prompt, a text message prompt, an image prompt, a light source prompt, a vibrating alert, or a combination thereof, or other suitable notification type. Assuming that the type of the first notification is a text message prompt (eg, a text message push displayed on the smart phone status column), the notification management module 320 adjusts the first type of the text message prompt according to the first notification adjustment setting. Notify the second notification of the type as a vibrating alert. For another example, if the type of the first notification is a text message prompt (eg, the text message is displayed on the smart phone status column), the notification management module 320 adjusts the first notification type according to the first notification adjustment setting. A second notification that is a text message but has a different text message content. That is, the user can set the form of the notification presented by the first notification from the first account after the adjustment, the type of the first notification can be adjusted to another type of second notification, or the first notification The type can be adjusted to a second notification of the same type but different content.

In more detail, after the user logs in to the electronic device via the first account, the first stored text message can be input and stored in the first notification adjustment setting, for example, the first stored text message is “new notification”. When the notification management module 320 determines that the first notification needs to be adjusted, the first stored text message pre-stored in the first notification adjustment setting is transmitted as the second notification. In other words, the user can display the notification from the first account that is not received by the first account as the pre-stored first stored text message--"new notification"-- instead of directly displaying the first The entire content of the notice.

After the adjustment of the first notification is completed, the process proceeds from step S242 to step S243, and the notification management module 320 transmits the second notification to the second account. In step S244, the notification management module 320 displays the second notification via the display unit 100.

If the notification management module 320 determines in step S241 that the first notification is not to be adjusted, the notification management module 320 maintains the type and content of the original first notification, and transmits it to the second account in step S245. In step S246, the first notification is displayed via the display unit 100.

It should be noted that in the above embodiment, the notification management module 320 may display the first notification via the display unit 100, but the present invention is not limited thereto. In another embodiment, the notification management module 320 does not prompt the first notification or the second notification via the display unit 100, but uses a manner corresponding to the type of the first notification or the second notification (eg, an audible prompt, Prompt for light source prompts, vibrating alerts, etc.).

In another embodiment, the notification management module 320 also determines whether the first notification (or the adjusted second notification) transmitted to the second account is clicked. Thereby, the subsequent operations can be correspondingly performed corresponding to the click operation of the notification. For ease of explanation, it is assumed below that the notification transmitted to the second account is the first notification that has not been adjusted.

Specifically, if the notification management module 320 recognizes that the displayed first notification is clicked, the notification management module 320 instructs the processing unit 200 to execute the login procedure of the first account. The login program, for example, requests the user to input verification information corresponding to the first account. After logging in to the electronic device with the first account, the notification management module 320 instructs the processing unit 200 to execute the first application corresponding to the first notification.

For example, assuming that the mail application of the first account (not logged into the electronic device 10) receives the new mail, the mail application sends a first notification that the text message content is "you have a new mail" to the receiving module 310. As in the above process, this first notification will be displayed in the working environment of the second account (which has been logged into the electronic device 10). (For example, the user will see the text message "You have new mail" displayed on the smartphone at this time). When the user clicks on the displayed first notification, the notification management module 320 instructs the processing unit 200 to execute the first login procedure.

The first login program, for example, provides a user-preset login screen, and requires the user to input a password (or other verification method) corresponding to the first account to verify the identity of the user. If the password entered by the user is correct (ie, verified), the login status of the electronic device 10 is changed from the second account to the first account, and the notification management module 320 instructs the processing unit 200 to directly execute the email corresponding to the first notification. An application to receive a first action from a user corresponding to the first event.

It is worth mentioning that in another embodiment, the user can also enable/disable the above operation of determining whether the first notification is clicked by setting a notification.

It should be noted that, in this embodiment, the receiving module 310 and the notification management module 320 are two separate code modules, but the present invention is not limited thereto. For example, in another embodiment, the receiving module The functions and operations of 310 can also be integrated into notification management module 320.

The above method according to the present invention can be implemented in a hardware or a firmware, or can be implemented as a software or computer code that can be stored in a recording medium such as a CD ROM, a RAM, a floppy disk, a hard disk, or a magneto-optical disk or through a network. Downloading and storing software or computer code (such as receiving module 310 and notification management module 320) on a non-transitory machine readable medium, such that the methods described herein can be implemented in a general purpose computer software, a dedicated processor, Programmable hardware or dedicated hardware (such as ASIC or FPGA). The computer, the processor, the microprocessor controller, or the programmable hardware includes storage elements (eg, RAM, ROM, flash memory, etc.) that can store or receive software or computer code, when the software or computer code is used by the computer. The processor or hardware can perform the method of this case when accessing and executing.

In summary, the cross-account notification method and the electronic device provided by the present invention enable an event notification issued by an application that is executed in an account that is not logged into the electronic device to be instantly transmitted across the account, so that the user can Respond to event notifications from applications that are not currently logged in, and improve productivity by not missing important events from other non-logged-in accounts.

Although the present invention has been disclosed in the above embodiments, it is not intended to limit the present invention, and any one of ordinary skill in the art can make some changes and refinements without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. The scope of the invention is defined by the scope of the appended claims.

10‧‧‧Electronic devices
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S241, S242, S243, S244, S245, S246‧‧ ‧ adjust the first notification to become the second notification process step

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. 2 is a flow chart showing the steps of a cross-account notification method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. FIG. 3 is a flow chart showing the steps of adjusting the first notification to become the second notification according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

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Claims (8)

A cross-account notification method is applicable to an electronic device, wherein a plurality of accounts are registered to the electronic device, the method includes: providing a notification setting; and marking, according to the notification setting, a plurality of applications for the accounts, Receiving a plurality of notifications of the marked applications from the accounts; receiving a first notification from a first application tagged by a first account of the accounts; transmitting according to the notification settings The first notification to the second account. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmitting the first notification to the second account according to the notification setting comprises: determining whether the first notification needs to be adjusted, and if so, using a first stored text The message is transmitted to the second account as the second notification, wherein the first stored text message is a first notification adjustment setting pre-stored in the notification setting in the first account login state. The method for notification according to claim 1, further comprising: determining whether the first notification transmitted to the second account is clicked, and if the first notification is clicked, performing a first account login procedure; After the first account is logged into the electronic device, the first application corresponding to the first notification is executed. For example, the notification method of claim 1 of the patent scope, wherein the notification setting includes a one-way notification and a two-way notification. An electronic device, wherein a plurality of accounts are registered to the electronic device, the electronic device includes: a display unit; a storage unit including a receiving module and a notification management module, the receiving module marking an application of the accounts a program, and receiving a first notification from the marked application; the notification management module stores a notification setting, and manages the received first notification, and determines whether the first notification needs to be transmitted; and a processing The unit is coupled to the storage unit and the display unit. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein the notification management module determines whether the first notification needs to be adjusted according to a first adjustment setting corresponding to the first account in the notification setting, wherein when the determination needs to be adjusted The first notification is transmitted to the second account by using a first stored text message as the second notification, wherein the first stored text message is pre-stored in the notification setting in the first account login state. A first notification adjustment setting. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein the notification setting comprises a one-way notification and a two-way notification. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein the notification management module determines whether the first notification transmitted to the second account is clicked, wherein the notification management is performed if the displayed first notification is clicked The module instructs the processing unit to execute a first login procedure, wherein after the first account is logged into the electronic device, the notification management module instructs the processing unit to execute the first application corresponding to the first notification.