WO2015030634A1

WO2015030634A1 - System and method for displaying and amending notification content using images

Info

Publication number: WO2015030634A1
Application number: PCT/RU2014/000646
Authority: WO
Inventors: Vladislav Vladislavovich MARTYNOV; Anton Leonidovich TARASENKO
Original assignee: Yota Devices Ipr Ltd
Priority date: 2013-08-30
Filing date: 2014-08-28
Publication date: 2015-03-05
Also published as: EP3039892A4; EP3039892A1; RU2013140481A; RU2633597C2; CN104813692A

Abstract

A method implemented by a computer device for displaying text content associated with a notification, the method comprising: receiving the notification containing the text content; identifying a matching text portion in the text content with a predefined text stored in a storage; generating an amended notification by combining at least a portion of the text content with a representation image associated with the predefined text; and sending the amended notification for subsequent display on a display of a user interface.

Description

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AND AMENDING NOTIFICATION CONTENT

USING IMAGES

FIELD

[0001] The field of the invention includes notification display on computer devices, in particular mobile display devices.

BACKGROUND

[0002] The pervasiveness of computing devices is ever increasing. For example, users can interact with a traditional desktop computer, a tablet computer, a mobile phone, and so on to access a variety of functionality for work and personal uses. Additionally, the variety of functionality that is available to users of these devices also continues to increase.

[0003] However, interaction by a user with the applications and their notifications can be hindered by the number of applications that are installed on the

computing device and the plethora of different notifications displayed

continuously on the display of the computer device. This volume of notifications can provide a distraction to the user, who must always read the text of each displayed notification to determine its relevant to the user at any given moment. Consequently, navigation through these multiple notifications to locate desired information can take a significant amount of time, which can be further complicated by the number of applications that are available on the computing device.

[0004] Further, users desire their computer devices to filter or otherwise interpret the world around them, including information provided to them on the display of their device, this making it easier in ones day to be more productive and efficient in an increasingly multitasking environment.

SUMMARY [0005] It is an object of the present invention is to provide a notification

configured device and method to obviate or mitigate at least one of the above- presented disadvantages.

[0006] Application notification display techniques are described. Implementations are described in which a representation of an application can include notifications that pertain to the application. Techniques are further described which can be used to manage the notifications, including replacement of notifications, use of queues, overrides, selection of notifications based on execution state of an application, cycling a display of a plurality of notifications (e.g., by a user or automatically by a computing device), cycling a display of different subsets of notifications, examination of a manifest of an application to determine criteria to be used to display the notifications, display priority of the notifications, and so on.

[0007] This summary is provided to introduce a selection of concepts in a simplified form that are further described below in the Detailed Description. This Summary is not intended to identify key features or essential features of the claimed subject matter, nor is it intended to be used as an aid in determining the scope of the claimed subject matter.

[0008] According to a first aspect is provided is a method implemented by a computer device for displaying text content associated with a notification, the method comprising: receiving the notification containing the text content;

identifying a matching text portion in the text content with a predefined text stored in a storage; generating an amended notification by combining at least a portion of the text content with a representation image associated with the predefined text; and sending the amended notification for subsequent display on a display of a user interface.

[0009] A further aspect provided is a computer device configured for displaying text content associated with a notification, the computer device comprising: a computer processor coupled to a memory, wherein the computer processor is programmed to: receive the notification containing the text content; identify a matching text portion in the text content with a predefined text stored in a storage; generate an amended notification by combining at least a portion of the text content with a representation image associated with the predefined text; and send the amended notification for subsequent display on a display of a user interface.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0010] The detailed description is described with reference to the accompanying figures. The use of the same reference numbers in different instances in the description and the figures can indicate similar or identical items.

[0011] FIG. l is an illustration of an environment in an example implementation that is operable to employ notification techniques;

[0012] FIG. 2 depicts example notifications of the system of Figure 1 ;

[0013] FIG. 3 depicts an example notification processing of the system of Figure 1 ;

[0014] FIG. 4 is a flow diagram depicting a procedure in an example implementation of the notification processing of Figure 3.

[0015] FIG. 5 is a further embodiment of a computer device of Figure 1 ;

[0016] FIG. 6 is a still further embodiment of a computer device of Figure 1 ; and

[0017] FIG. 7 is a still further embodiment of a computer device of Figure 1.

DESCRIPTION

[0018] The claimed invention can be implemented in numerous ways, including as a process; an apparatus; a system; a computer program product embodied on a computer readable storage medium as a physical memory; and/or a processor, such as a processor configured to execute instructions stored on and/or provided by the physical memory coupled to the processor. In this specification, these implementations, or any other form that the invention can take, can be referred to as techniques. In general, the order of the steps of disclosed processes can be altered within the scope of the claimed invention. Unless stated otherwise, a component such as a processor or a memory described as being configured to perform a task can be implemented as a general component that is temporarily configured to perform the task at a given time or a specific component that is manufactured to perform the task. As used herein, the term ^"processor^' refers to one or more devices, circuits, and/or processing cores configured to process data, such as computer program instructions.

[0019] A detailed description of one or more embodiments of the claimed invention is provided below along with accompanying figures that illustrate the principles of the invention. The claimed invention is described in connection with such embodiments, but the claimed invention is not limited to any embodiment. The scope of the claimed invention is limited only by the claims and the claimed invention encompasses numerous alternatives, modifications and equivalents. Numerous specific details are set forth in the following description in order to provide a thorough understanding of the claimed invention. These details are provided for the purpose of example and the invention can be practiced according to the claims without some or all of these specific details. For the purpose of clarity, technical material that is known in the technical fields related to the claimed invention has not been described in detail so that the claimed invention is not unnecessarily obscured.

Overview

[0020] Notifications (e.g. text messages) can be used by applications to display information (e.g. SMS notification, email, etc.) obtained from the application without having the user specifically launch the application, or can be obtained from the application with the user having launched the application. For example, a weather application can send for display a notification that describes current weather conditions. Another example of a notification sent for display can be a text message (e.g. one friend sending an electronic message of hello to another friend) sent from another computer device connected via a communication network to the computer device displaying the notification. However, conventional techniques that are utilized to display notifications are often static and therefore do not allow developers to control how the notifications are displayed on a user interface of a computer device. It is recognised that the application sending the notification can be hosted on the computer device displaying the notification on its user interface and/or the application can be hosted by a network service or other computer device in communication over a communications network with the device displaying the notification on its user interface.

[0021] Techniques described herein can be used to manage notifications, including processing notifications received from applications and then displayed as amended notifications on the computer device display. Additionally, in one or more implementations these techniques can be performed without executing a corresponding application, thereby conserving battery life and increasing performance of computing devices that perform these techniques (for example when amended notifications are displayed on a low power screen such as an e- ink or electronic paper display EPD acting as a bi-stable screen display 112— see Fig.1). The following sections describe examples of a variety of different techniques that relate to application notifications, such as receipt of notifications, analyzing text content of the notifications, selection of one or more text portions of the notification text content based on matching with predefined text portions (e.g. a word, a grouping of words, a pattern of words, a word phrase, etc.), amending the notification text content based on the results of the text portion matching, displaying one or more received notifications as amended notifications, following criteria used to amend and/or display the notifications, determine priority of the notifications and/or content within the notifications, and so on. Further discussion of these techniques and others can be found in the following sections.

[0022] Notifications can be referred to as text messaging, or texting, the act of typing and sending a brief, electronic message between two or more mobile phones or fixed or portable devices 102,104 over a network 106, see Fig 1. The term text message can refer to messages sent using the Short Message Service (SMS) and can refer to messages containing image, video, and sound content (known as MMS messages). The sender of the text message is known as a texter, while the service itself has different colloquialisms depending on the region. It may simply be referred to as a text in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia and the Philippines, an SMS in most of mainland Europe, and a TMS or SMS in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. In terms of standard SMS messaging, this as text content can use 140 bytes (octets) per message, which translates to 160 characters (7 bits bytes) of the English alphabet using 7-bit encoding or as few as 70 characters for languages using non-Latin alphabets using UTF-16 encoding. Alternatively, for other forms of text messaging, the commonly cited limit of 140 characters is imposed by some services like Twitter that reserve 20 characters for non-message content, like addressing.

[0023] As discussed below, some text messages such as SMS can also be used by applications 110 for the remote controlling of appliances and other applications 1 10 or devices (e.g. computer peripherals associated with the operating system 108) - see Fig 1. Further, short codes can be special telephone numbers, shorter than full telephone numbers, that can be used to address SMS and MMS text messages from mobile phones or fixed phones. There are two types of short codes: dialing and messaging.

[0024] It is also recognised that notifications can be referred to as electronic messages containing text content as generated as sent by applications 110— see Fig 1. Electronic text messages can be used to interact with automated systems to, for example, order products or services. Service providers can use direct text messaging mobile phone users about products, payment due dates, etcetera as a form of e-mail. Notifications can have text content involving letters of an alphabet, numerals, as well as special characters, as desired. For example, in a straight and concise definition for the purposes of this English Language article, text messaging by phones or mobile phones could include all 26 letters of the alphabet and 10 numerals, i.e., alpha-numeric messages, or text, to be sent by texter or received by the textee.

[0025] In the following discussion, an example environment is first described that can employ the techniques described herein. Example procedures are then described which can be performed in the example environment as well as other environments. Consequently, performance of the example procedures is not limited to the example environment and the example environment is not limited to performance of the example procedures.

Example Environment

[0026] FIG. 1 is an illustration of an environment 100 in an example

implementation that is operable to employ techniques described herein. The illustrated environment 100 includes a network device 102 (e.g. hosting a web service or other network application) and a client device 104 that are

communicatively coupled via a network 106. The network device 102 and the client device 104 can be implemented by a wide range of computing devices, such as but not limited to a mobile device, a personal digital assistant, a smart phone, a tablet, a laptop, a desktop computer, a server, etc.

[0027] For example, a computing device can be configured as a computer that is capable of communicating over the network 106, such as a desktop computer, a mobile station, an entertainment appliance, a set-top box communicatively coupled to a display device, a mobile communication device (e.g., a wireless phone as illustrated for the client device 104), a game console, and so forth. Thus, a computing device can range from full resource devices with substantial memory and processor resources (e.g., personal computers, game consoles) to a low-resource device with limited memory and/or processing resources (e.g., traditional-set-top boxes, hand-held game consoles). Additionally, a computing device can be representative of a plurality of different devices, such as multiple servers utilized by a business to perform operations, a remote control and set-top box combination, an image capture device and a game console configured to capture gestures, and so on.

[0028] Although the network 106 is illustrated as the Internet, the network can assume a wide variety of configurations. For example, the network 106 can include a wide area network (WAN) such as the Internet, a local area network (LAN), a wireless network, a public telephone network, an intranet, and so on. Further, although a single network 106 is shown, the network 106 can be configured to include multiple networks.

[0029] The client device 104 is further illustrated as including an operating system 108. The operating system 108 is configured to abstract underlying functionality of the client 104 to applications 110 that are executable on the client device 104. For example, the operating system 108 can abstract processing, memory, network, and/or display functionality of the client device 104 such that the applications 110 can be written without knowing "how" this underlying functionality is implemented. The application 110, for instance, can provide notification(s) 109 containing text content 1 1 (e.g. text data) to the operating system 108 (e.g. via a notification module 114 as further described below) to be processed, rendered and displayed by a display device 112 without

understanding how this rendering will be performed.

[0030] The operating system 108 can also represent a variety of other

functionality, such as to manage a file system and a user interface that is navigable by a user of the client device 104. An example of this is an application launcher (e.g., desktop) that is displayed on the display device 112 of the client device 104. The desktop can include representations of a plurality of the applications 110, such as icon, tiles, textual descriptions. The desktop can be considered a root level of a hierarchical file structure. Further, operating system

108 can have one or more processors 107 used to execute instructions to perform operations and functionality/processing (e.g. rendering display of amended notifications 116 to the display, accessing memory 115) of the operating system 108 as well as to perform operations and

functionality/processing of the notification module 114 (e.g. analyzing and performing amendments to the text content of the received notification 109 for subsequent generation and display of the amended notifications 116). Images 118 and associated predefined text portions120 in the memory 115 shown in the illustrated example are used by the notification module 114 in amendment of the text content 111 of the received notification 109 in order to generate the amended notifications 116 for display on the display 112 of the client device 104. In this way, a user can readily see amended notifications 116 of interest on the display 112.

[0031] The operating system 108 is also illustrated as interacting with the notification module 114. The notification module 114 is representative of functionality to manage notifications 109 received that are to be displayed as amended notifications 116, as communicated originally from the applications 110 hosted on and/or off of the computer device 104. As further discussed below, an image representation 118 (e.g. cloud) associated with a predefined text portion 120 (e.g. cloudy) stored in the storage 115 can be used by the notification module 114 to process a notification 109 sent by a weather application 110, such that the text content 111 of the notification 109 would contain text content illustrated as including a name and current weather conditions, e.g., "Seattle 65 Cloudy." Likewise, the image representation 118 (e.g. heart) associated with a predefined text portion 120 (e.g. Cathleen) for SMS text coming from a spouse Cathleen can be used by the notification module 114 to process the notification

109 received, such that the text content 111 of the notification 109 would contain text content illustrated as including a name and greeting or other personal information, e.g. "Cathleen, Hi I want you to call me". Another example is illustrated as including a notification that indicates that a current flight status is "delayed." Further examples can be other than as illustrated, as desired.

[0032] In this way, a user can readily view information relating to the received notifications 109 on the display 112, such that the text content 111 of the original notification 109 has been intercepted and changed by the notification module 114 to generate and subsequently display the amended notification 116, by the addition of the image representation 118 matched to the predefined text portion 120 determined by the notification module 114 to be present in both the text potion 11 of the original notification 109 and in the storage 115.

[0033] It is recognised that the notification module 114 could receive and process the notifications 109 without having to launch and navigate through each of the applications 110. Although representations of specific applications 110 are shown, other representations of applications 110 are also contemplated, such as a representation of an application 110 that references a user's involvement with a service, e.g., a friend in a social network service.

[0034] In one or more implementations, the amended notifications 116 can be managed without executing the corresponding applications 110. For example, the notification module 114 can receive the notifications 109 from a variety of different sources, such as from software (e.g., other applications 110 executed by the client device 104), from a web service device 102 via the network 106, and so on. The notification module 114 can then manage how the notifications 109 are processed and then displayed as amended notifications 116 without executing the applications 110. This can be used to improve battery life and performance of the client device 104 by not running each of the applications 110 to output the amended notifications 116. Further, it is recognised that different types of display devices 112 can be used, such as bi-stable screens and/or more traditional display screens such as LCD displays. Further, as mentioned below by alternative embodiment, the amended notifications 116 could be displayed on one or both display screens 112 of a two screen (or multi-screen) computer device 104. For example, in a two screenl 12 configured computer device 104, with the traditional LCD screen 112 in a off power state the amended notification 116 could be rendered and displayed on the bi-stable screen 112 when operated in a low power notification mode (i.e. one or more peripheral devices and/or applications 110 managed by the operating system 108 are in an off state in order to conserve power of the computer device 104).

[0035] Additionally, the notification module 114 can support techniques to allow developers of the respective applications 110 to specify how the amended notifications 116 are to be displayed by determining which image representation 118 is to be associated with which predefined text portion 111. For example, the notification module 114 can be provided with matching criteria used to identify text portions 120 found in the text content 111 and amending criteria used to replace or otherwise augment the matched predefined text portion 120 in the notification 109 with the corresponding representative image 118 in order to generate the amended notification 116. The matching criteria and amending criteria can describe how and when the amended notifications 116 are to be displayed as well as how the amended notifications 116 are to be managed to determine which amended notifications 116 are to be displayed and their corresponding text and image 18 content. As an illustrative example, the notification 109 could contain the text content 111 of "Seattle weather is cloudy and 65 degrees". Using the matching criteria the notification module 114 would identify the text portion "cloudy" and use the amending criteria to produce the amended notification 116 to contain both text content of "Toronto weather is cloudy and 65 degrees" and image content of the representation image 118 of a cloud. Alternatively, using the matching criteria the notification module 114 would identify the text portion "cloudy" and use the amending criteria to produce the amended notification 116 to contain both text content of "weather" and image content of the representation image 118 of a cloud, as illustrated in Fig. 1 by example, in order to decrease the amount of text shown in the amended notification 116 as compared to the text content 11 of the notification 109. Other examples are shown in Fig. 2 for amended notifications 116 displayed on the display 112 to include representation image 118 (tree with hearts) along with text content obtained from the original notification 109 (e.g. Sonia, I love you Dad!).

[0036] The notification module 1 14 can also utilize a variety of other techniques to enable a developer or other entity to specify how the amended notifications 116 are to be displayed and managed. For instance, the amended notifications 116 can be associated with the predefined text portion 120 and corresponding representation image 118 as defined and stored in the storage 1 15 by the developer (or otherwise directed to be included in the storage 1 15 by the developer for implementation by the administrator of the operating system 108 and associated storage 1 15 of the computer device 104), and optionally along with corresponding identifying and/or amending criteria that specify how the amended notifications 116 are to be processed, displayed and/or managed. Thus, an originator of the predefined text portion 120 and corresponding representation image 118 (and optionally corresponding identifying and/or amending criteria) can specify how corresponding amended notifications 116 are to be displayed or managed. This can be performed to enable a variety of different functionality as further described in the following sections.

[0037] Although this discussion described incorporation of the notification module 114 at the client, functionality of the notification module 1 14 can be implemented in a variety of ways. For example, functionality of a notification module 114 can be incorporated by a proxy or third party device 101 (e.g. web service) in whole or in part. The notification module 1 14 of the device 101 , for instance, can process notifications 109 received from other network devices 102 and/or from applications 110 of the computer device 104 and process the notifications 109 for distribution to the computer device 104 over the network 106 as amended notifications 116 for display on the display screen 112 of the computer device 104. As recognised, the storage 1 15 can be embodied as an on-board local storage 1 15 of the computer device 104, can be embodied as a peripheral local storage 1 15 of the computer device 104, and/or can be embodied as a remote networked storage 1 15 of the computer devices 102, 104 and/or can be embodied as a peripheral local storage 1 15 of the computer device 102, and/or an on-board local storage 115 of the computer device 104. Further, the storage 1 15 can be embodied as multiple storages located either remotely and or locally with respect to the computer devices 102, 104. Other examples are also contemplated, such as to distribute the functionality of the notification module 1 14 between the client device 104 and the network device 102, incorporate a third-party service 101 , and so on.

[0038] Generally, any of the functions described herein can be implemented using software, firmware, hardware (e.g., fixed logic circuitry), or a combination of these implementations. The terms "module," "functionality," and "logic" as used herein generally represent software, firmware, hardware, or a combination thereof, as incorporated by or otherwise executed by the processor 107 of the operating system 108. In the case of a software implementation, the module, functionality, or logic represents program code that performs specified tasks when executed on the processor 107 (e.g., CPU or CPUs). The program code can be stored in one or more computer readable memory devices 115. The features of the techniques described below are platform-independent, meaning that the techniques can be implemented on a variety of commercial computing platforms having a variety of processors.

[0039] For example, the computing device 102, 104,1 11 can also include an entity (e.g., software) that causes hardware of the computing device 102, 104,1 1 1 to perform operations, e.g., processors, functional blocks, and so on. For example, the computing device 102,104,1 1 1 can include a computer-readable medium 1 15 that can be configured to maintain instructions that cause the computing device 102,104,1 1 1 , and more particularly hardware (e.g. operating system including hardware and configured and executable instructions) of the computing device 102,104,111 to perform operations. Thus, the instructions function to configure the hardware to perform the operations and in this way result in transformation of the hardware to perform functions. The instructions can be provided by the computer-readable medium 115 to the computing device through a variety of different configurations.

[0040] One such configuration of a computer-readable medium 115 is signal bearing medium and thus is configured to transmit the instructions (e.g., as a carrier wave) to the hardware of the computing device, such as via a network. The computer-readable medium 115 can also be configured as a physical computer-readable storage medium and thus is not a signal bearing medium. Examples of a computer-readable storage medium include a random-access memory (RAM), read-only memory (ROM), an optical disc, flash memory, hard disk memory, and other memory devices that can use magnetic, optical, and other techniques to store instructions and other data.

[0041] FIG. 3 depicts an example operation of the notification module 114 in which a notification 109 is displayed successively as an amended notification 116 including an image representation 118 added to the text content 111 of the notification 109, as identified by the notification module 114 through interrogation of the storage 115 and matching of the text portion "cloudy" of the text content with the predefined text portion 120 of the storage 115.

Example Procedures

[0042] The following discussion describes notification techniques that can be implemented utilizing the previously described systems and devices. Aspects of each of the procedures can be implemented in hardware, firmware, or software, or a combination thereof. The procedures are shown as a set of blocks that specify operations performed by one or more devices and are not necessarily limited to the orders shown for performing the operations by the respective blocks. In portions of the following discussion, reference will be made to the example environment.

[0043] Referring to Fig 4, illustrated is a method 300 implemented by a computer device (e.g. computer device 104) for displaying text content 111 associated with a notification 109. The method comprising at step 302 receiving (e.g. by the notification module 114 via the device infrastructure from an application 110 hosted locally on the device 104 and/or via the device infrastructure including the network interface (see below) from an application 110 hosted remotely from the device 104 on the network 106) the notification 109 containing the text content 111. At step 304 identifying a matching text portion (e.g. by the notification module 114) in the text content 111 with a predefined text 120 stored in a storage 115. At step 306 generating (e.g. by the notification module 114) an amended notification by combining at least a portion of the text content with a

representation image associated with the predefined text and at step 308 sending the amended notification 116 (e.g. by the operating system 108) for subsequent display on a display 112 of a user interface. One example of the user interface is part of the computer device generating the amended notification 116 and one example of the notification 109 is an SMS message.

[0044] As noted, it is recognised that the matching text portion can be embodied as one word, as a combination of words (e.g. the combination of words as a word phrase, the combination of words as a word pattern distributed in the text content), etc.

[0045] Additional step to steps 302-306 can include determining (e.g. by the notification module 114) if the text content 111 contains a number of words less than a predefined maximum words number before implementing the generating step 306. For example, the predefined maximum can be less than 8 words, can be less than 9 words, can be less than 10 words, etc. [0046] It is recognised that the generating step can include replacing the matching text portion with the representation image 118 in the amended notification 116. Alternatively, the generating step can include including all of the text content 111 with the representation image 118 in the amended notification 116.

[0047] Additional step to steps 302-306 can include (e.g. by the notification module 114) identifying a plurality of text portions in the text content 111 and assigning a priority to each of the plurality of text portions. Further, selecting a text portion from the plurality of text portions can be based on the text portion having a priority satisfying a priority threshold assigned to matching text portions in the storage 1 5. For example, some of the text portions in the text content 111 may not be identified as matching text portions 120, however those different matching text portions 120 can each have a different priority assigned thereto as defined in the storage 115. An additional step can be selecting the text portion having the priority matching the priority threshold (e.g. highest priority) as the matching text portion.

[0048] It is recognised that the operating system 108 and associated

application(s) 110 and notification module 114 can be optionally configured to operatively (as implemented by the processor 107) generate the amended notification 116 for display on the display 112 (e.g. bi-stable, LCD, LED, etc.) by the notification module 114 in substitution of the application 110 hosted on the computer device, the application 110 responsible when in an active state (e.g. running and therefore recognised as an active process by the operating system 108) for processing the notification 109 once received for subsequent display on the display 112. For example, the application 110 can be in an inactive state (e.g. not running and therefore recognised as an inactive process by the operating system 108) for receiving and processing of the notification 109 for display 112 and therefore the notification 109 is sent (e.g. by the operating system 108 or otherwise the notification module 114 is configured as default to receive the notification 109 once received - for example as a process configured for listening and identifying incoming notifications via the onboard bus as generated by local applications 110 and/or for listening and identifying incoming notifications via the network interface as generated by remote applications 110) to the notification module 114 rather than to the application 110 for subsequent processing and generation as the amended notification 116.

[0049] It is also recognised that the notification module 114 can be configured to select and send the amended notification 116 to another display screen 113 (see Fig. 5) of the computing device 104 rather than to the display 112. For example, the display 112 can be an LCD or LED based display and the another display 113 can be a bi-stable screen (e.g. electronic paper display (EPD), e-ink, etc.). alternatively, the display 1 2 can be a bi-stable screen and the another display 113 can be an LCD or LED based display.

[0050] As such, in view of the above, described is amendment of notifications 116 for display as part of messaging of text content 111 from an application. A notification 109 is received that is to be displayed, the notification 109 containing text portions matching predefined text stored in the storage 115 (e.g. associated with a tag such as a metadata tag). For example, the notification 109 can be received at the notification module 114 of the client device 104 from an application 110 executed on the client device 104, from a web server 102, and so on. In another example, the notification module 114 of the web server 102 can receive the notification 109 from the device 104 and manage processing and distribution of the amended notification 116 to the client device 104. A variety of other examples are also contemplated.

[0051] For example, a tag of the notification 109 (e.g. notification ID) can compared to one or more other tags associated with one or more other predefined text 120 in the storage 115, in order to determine type of the notification 109. For non-matching types, the notification module 114 can decide to ignore the notification 109 for subsequent analysis and process as an amended notification 116.

Example Device 101 ,102,104 Configurations

[0052] Referring to Figure 1 , a computing device 102,104,101 implementing functionality of the notification environment can include a network connection interface, such as a network interface card or a modem, coupled via connection to a device infrastructure implementing the operating system 108. The connection interface is connectable during operation of the devices to the network 106 (e.g. an intranet and/or an extranet such as the Internet), which enables networked devices to communicate with each other as appropriate. The network 106 can support the communication of the applications 110 provisioned in the environments 108, and the related notification 109,116 content.

[0053] Referring again to Figure 1 , the device can also have a user interface including the display 112, coupled to the device infrastructure, to interact with a user. The user interface can include one or more user input devices such as but not limited to a QWERTY keyboard, a keypad, a stylus, a mouse, a microphone and the user input/output device such as the screen display 112 and/or a speaker. If the screen 112 is touch sensitive, then the display 1 12 can also be used as the user input device as controlled by the device infrastructure.

[0054] Referring again to Figure 1 , operation of the device is facilitated by the device infrastructure. The device infrastructure includes one or more computer processors 107 and can include an associated memory 115. The computer processor 107 facilitates performance of the device configured for the intended task (e.g. of the respective module(s) 1 14) through operation of the network interface, the user and other application programs/hardware 110 of the device by executing task related instructions. These task related instructions can be provided by an operating system, and/or software applications located in the memory 115, and/or by operability that is configured into the electronic/digital circuitry of the processor(s) 108 designed to perform the specific task(s).

Further, it is recognized that the device infrastructure can include a computer readable storage medium 115 coupled to the processor 107 for providing instructions to the processor 107 and/or to load/update the instructions (e.g. applications 110, notification module 114). The computer readable medium 115 can include hardware and/or software such as, by way of example only, magnetic disks, magnetic tape, optically readable medium such as CD/DVD ROMS, and memory cards. In each case, the computer readable medium 115 can take the form of a small disk, floppy diskette, cassette, hard disk drive, solid-state memory card, or RAM provided in the memory module. It should be noted that the above listed example computer readable mediums 115 can be used either alone or in combination.

[0055] Further, it is recognized that the computing device can include the executable applications comprising code or machine readable instructions for implementing predetermined functions/operations including those of an operating system and the modules, for example. The processor 107 as used herein is a configured device and/or set of machine-readable instructions for performing operations as described by example above, including those operations as performed by any or all of the modules 110,114. As used herein, the processor 107 can comprise any one or combination of, hardware, firmware, and/or software. The processor 107 acts upon information by manipulating, analyzing, modifying, converting or transmitting information for use by an executable procedure or an information device, and/or by routing the information with respect to an output device. The processor 107 can use or comprise the capabilities of a controller or microprocessor, for example. Accordingly, any of the functionality of the modules can be implemented in hardware, software or a combination of both. Accordingly, the use of a processor 107 as a device and/or as a set of machine-readable instructions is referred to generically as a processor/module for sake of simplicity. [0056] Referring to Fig. 6, as illustrated by example, a dual screen bar form factor computer device 104 (e.g. phone) with two displays 112,113 (e.g. a bi-stable display, LCD display, LED display, etc.). An advantage of a dual screen bar form factor phone is that one screen can be always visible, whichever way up the device 104 is placed on a table. By displaying an incoming message (e.g.

notification 116) on one or both screens, this can provide for incoming messages 1 6 can be visible when the device 104 is lying on a table. The first display screen 112 can use electrowetting technology. The second display screen can use electrowetting technology eg. Liquavista. For notification 109,116,

LCD/AMOLED (liquid crystal display/Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode) displays 112,113 can be used for desired always-on mode and higher power consumption over use of bi-stable screens 112,113. For example, only one of the screens 112,113 would be a bi-stable screen. The device 104 can be a bar form factor display device as a slate device, as a bar or candybar device, as a slab- shaped form. Alternatively, the computer device 104 in Figure 5 can be a hinged clam shell design.

[0057] It is recognised that the applications 110 can be, for example, corporate email applications, corporate address books, work calendars, and other enterprise applications, games, downloaded custom apps, and music apps.

Alternatively, the applications 110 can be corporate / Work Calendar; Corporate / Work Mail; Corporate / Work Directory and Address Book; Company News (e.g. RSS, XML, etc); Instant Messaging (e.g. What's app, Skype, etc); Job dispatcher, Tasks and to-do-list; Recorder for meeting; Notes; Storage, reports and documents (e.g. xls, ppt, doc, etc); Stock prices; Secured network connectivity / connection manager. Examples of applications 110 can include applications such as but not limited to: Social Networking (e.g. Facebook, Blog, Twitter, Line, Sina, etc); Multimedia recording, playback and sharing (e.g. video, audio, photo, music, etc); Games and apps; Personal Alarm and tasks; Instant Messaging (e.g.

Yahoo!, Google, What's app, MSN, Skype, etc); Point of Interests, Navigation and Geo-fence (e.g. Map tools); My wallet (e.g. banking, statement, NFC payment, auction & bidding / taoboa, etc); Storage and backup on 3Cloud;

Utilities / Tools (e.g. stock, apps, widgets, calculator, weather, etc); Tariff and unbilled usage counter / widget (personal) for a network 106 data/usage plan.

[0058] The representation image 118 can be defined as a computer icon, a pictogram or other image (or series of images) displayed on the computer screen 112,113staticaly and/or and used to navigate to or within the application 110 environment afforded by the operation system 108. The image 118 itself can be a small picture or symbol serving as a quick, "intuitive" representation of the text content 111. The image 118 can function as an electronic hyperlink or file shortcut to access the applications 110 or data in the storage 115. The image 118 can be a small picture that represents objects such as a file in the storage 115 or application 110 itself or functionality within the file or application 110. The image 118 can be used as a quick way (e.g. one selection shortcut) to execute commands, open documents/files, and run programs, as interpreted by the operating system 108.

[0059] Referring to Figure 7, the computer device 104 can be configured such that the bi-stable display screen 113 is operatively coupled via a data connection (not shown - as a wired or wireless connection) coupled for power and/or data to the computer device 104 by a detachable cover 130. As such, the display 113 is part of the cover 130, as illustrated by example, for example positioned on a front face of the cover 130 or positioned on a back face of the cover 130. It is recognised that the operating system 108 is able to recognize and communicate to the bi-stable display screen 113 via the connection, for example or the purpose of sending the amended notification 116 from the notification module 114 for display on the display 113.

Referring again to Figures 6 and 7, the computer device 104 can be configured such that the bi-stable display screen 113 is operatively coupled via a data connection (not shown - as a wired or wireless connection) coupled for power and/or data to the computer device 104 by a detachable cover 130. As such, the display 113 is part of the cover 130, also referred to as a detachable casing, as illustrated by example, for example the display 1 13 positioned on a front face of the cover 130 or positioned on a back face of the cover 130. It is recognised that the display 1 13 can be on the outside (facing outwards and in view when the cover is closed and covering the display 1 12 of the computer device 104) of a front flap/face of the cover 130 as a hinged clam shell cover configuration or can be on the inside (facing inwards and not in view when the cover is closed and covering the display 1 12 of the computer device 104) of the front flap of the cover 130 as a hinged clam shell configuration. It is recognised that the operating system 108 is able to recognize and communicate to the bi-stable display screen 1 13 of the cover via the connection, for example or the purpose of sending the amended notification 116 from the notification module 1 14 for display on the display 113.

It is recognised that the cover can also not have a screen as part of the cover 130 and therefore the two displays 1 12,1 13 are on the front and back faces of the computer device 104 itself, for example display 1 12 on the front and display 1 13 on the back of a casing of the device 104 or alternatively display 1 12 on the back and display 1 13 on the front of a housing of the device 104. Further, it is recognised that the cover 130 can contain the display 1 13 while the computer device 104 itself can also have two displays 1 12,1 13 as shown by example in Fig. 5 and 6, thus providing for three display screens accessible by the notification module 1 14 for sending the amended notification 116 for display. For example, the notification module 1 14 could choose to display the amended notification 1 16 on the display 1 13 on the cover 130 over any of the display(s) part of the housing of the computer device 104. Alternatively, the notification module 1 14 could choose to display the amended notification 1 16 on one or both of the display(s) 1 12, 1 13 on the housing of the computer device 104 over any of the display(s) that are of the cover 130.

Claims

We Claim

1. A method implemented by a computer device for displaying text content associated with a notification, the method comprising:

receiving the notification containing the text content;

identifying a matching text portion in the text content with a predefined text stored in a storage;

generating an amended notification by combining at least a portion of the text content with a representation image associated with the predefined text; and sending the amended notification for subsequent display on a display of a user interface.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user interface is part of the computer device and the notification is an SMS message.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the matching text portion is one word.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the matching text portion is a combination of words.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the combination of words is a word phrase.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the combination of words is a word pattern distributed in the text content.

7. The method of claim 2 further comprising the step of determining if the text content contains a number of words less than a predefined maximum words number before implementing said generating step.

8. The method of claim 2, wherein the generating step includes replacing the matching text portion with the representation image in the amended notification.

9. The method of claim 2, wherein the generating step includes including all of the text content with the representation image in the amended notification.

10. The method of claim 2 further comprising the step of identifying a plurality of text portions in the text content and assigning a priority to each of the plurality of text portions.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising the step of selecting a text portion from the plurality of text portions based on the text portion having a priority satisfying a priority threshold.

12. The method of claim 11 further comprising the step of selecting said text portion as the matching text portion.

13. The method of claim 2 further comprising the step of generating the amended notification for display on the bi-stable display screen by a notification module in substitution of an application hosted on the computer device, the application responsible when in an active state for processing the notification once received for subsequent display on the display.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the display is a bi-stable display screen.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the application is in an inactive state for receiving and processing of the notification for display on the bi-stable display screen.

16. The method of claim 13 further comprising the step of an operating system of the computer device selecting to send the notification to the notification module rather than to the application.

17. The method of claim 13 further comprising the step of the notification module selecting to send the amended notification to another display screen of the computing device rather than to the display.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the display is an LCD or LED based display and the another display screen is a bi-stable screen.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the display is a bi-stable screen and the another display screen is an LCD or LED based display.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the bi-stable display screen is an electronic paper display (EPD).

21. A computer device configured for displaying text content associated with a notification, the computer device comprising:

a computer processor coupled to a memory, wherein the computer processor is programmed to:

receive the notification containing the text content;

identify a matching text portion in the text content with a predefined text stored in a storage;

generate an amended notification by combining at least a portion of the text content with a representation image associated with the predefined text; and send the amended notification for subsequent display on a display of a user interface.

22. The computer device of claim 21 , wherein the user interface is part of the computer device and the notification is an SMS message.

23. The computer device of claim 22, wherein the computer processor is further programmed to determine if the text content contains a number of words less than a predefined maximum words number before generating the amended notification.

24. The computer device of claim 22 wherein the computer processor is further programmed to generate the amended notification for display on the bistable display screen by a notification module in substitution of an application hosted on the computer device, the application responsible when in an active state for processing the notification once received for subsequent display on the display.

25. The computer device of claim 24, wherein the display is a bi-stable display screen.

26. The computer device of claim 25, wherein the application is in an inactive state for receiving and processing of the notification for display on the bi-stable display screen.

27. The computer device of claim 26 further comprising another display screen as an LCD or LED based display.

28. The computer device of claim 27, wherein the bi-stable display screen is coupled to the computer device by a detachable cover.