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Granted Patent B2
US 9,999,019 · App. 14/721,528 · Granted Jun 12, 2018

Wearable device and method of setting reception of notification message therein

Inventors: Kyung-ho Jeong (Seoul, KR); Sun-hwa Kim (Seoul, KR); Jin Ra (Suwon-si, KR); Jong-hyun Ryu (Suwon-si, KR); Chan-hong Min (Yongin-si, KR); Jung-hye Min (Yongin-si, KR)
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
H04W68/02H04M1/7253H04W4/008H04M1/72547H04W84/18
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Patent No.
US 9,999,019
App. No.
14/721,528
Granted
Jun 12, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided are a portable device, a wearable device, and a system including the same for setting a reception of a notification message in the wearable device. The portable device includes: a wireless communicator configured to receive, from a wearable device via wireless communication, information regarding a notification setting; and a controller configured to identify an event and to determine, based on the received information, whether to transmit a notification to the wearable device in response to the identified event.

Claims (79)

1. A portable device comprising:

a wireless communicator configured to receive, from a wearable device via wireless communication, information regarding a notification setting; and

a controller configured to identify an event and to determine, based on the received information, whether to transmit a notification to the wearable device in response to the identified event,

wherein the notification setting is a setting, input by a user, of whether or not to receive, by the wearable device from the portable device, notifications corresponding to the event based on an attribute of the event.

2. The portable device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a storage configured to store the notification setting based on the received information,

wherein in response to the event, the controller determines, based on the stored notification setting, whether to transmit the notification to the wearable device.

3. The portable device according to claim 1 , wherein:

the received information regarding the notification setting comprises sender information; and

in response to receiving a message from an external device, the controller determines not to transmit, to the wearable device, a notification notifying of the received message when a sender of the received message corresponds to the sender information.

4. The portable device according to claim 3 , further comprising a storage configured to store the received message.

5. The portable device according to claim 1 , wherein:

the received information regarding the notification setting comprises application information; and

in response to an event caused by an application, the controller determines not to transmit, to the wearable device, a notification for the event when the application corresponds to the application information.

6. The portable device according to claim 1 , wherein:

the received information regarding the notification setting comprises content information; and

in response to an event related to content, the controller determines not to transmit, to the wearable device, a notification for the event when the content corresponds to the content information.

7. The portable device according to claim 1 , wherein:

the wireless communicator transmits, to the wearable device, a first notification in response to the notification event, and receives, from the wearable device, the information regarding the notification setting for the event in response to the transmitted first notification.

8. The portable device according to claim 7 , wherein:

the received information regarding the notification setting comprises at least one from among sender information, application information, and content information included in the first notification; and

the controller determines the setting to not transmit a second notification for the event that corresponds to the at least one from among the sender information, the application information, and the content information.

9. A wearable device comprising:

a wireless communicator configured to receive, from another device via wireless communication, a notification corresponding to an event identified by the other device;

an output device configured to output the notification or an indicator of the notification;

an input device configured to receive, in response to the output notification or the output indicator of the notification, a user input of a notification setting with respect to the received notification; and

a controller configured to control the wireless communicator to transmit, to the other device, information regarding the notification setting,

wherein the notification setting is a setting for transmission of notifications from the other device to the wearable device based on the user input with respect to the received notification, and

wherein the notification setting is a setting of whether or not to receive, by the wearable device from the other device, notifications corresponding to the event based on an attribute of the event.

10. The wearable device according to claim 9 , wherein:

the notification setting corresponds to sender information of the received notification; and

the controller controls the wireless communicator to transmit the information regarding the notification setting to instruct the other device to not transmit, to the wearable device, a notification for an event when sender information of the event corresponds to the sender information of the received notification.

11. The wearable device according to claim 9 , wherein:

the notification setting corresponds to application information of the received notification; and

the controller controls the wireless communicator to transmit the information regarding the notification setting to instruct the other device to not transmit, to the wearable device, a notification for an event when application information of the event corresponds to the application information of the received notification.

12. The wearable device according to claim 9 , wherein:

the notification setting corresponds to content information of the received notification; and

the controller controls the wireless communicator to transmit the information regarding the notification setting to instruct the other device to not transmit, to the wearable device, a notification for an event when content information of the event corresponds to the content information of the received notification.

13. The wearable device according to claim 9 , wherein the controller controls the wireless communicator to transmit the information regarding the notification setting to instruct the other device to not transmit, to the wearable device, a notification for an event when attribute information of the event corresponds to selected attribute information of the received notification, selected via the received user input.

14. The wearable device according to claim 9 , wherein the controller controls the wireless communicator to transmit the information regarding the notification setting to instruct the other device to transmit, to the wearable device, a notification for an event when attribute information of the event corresponds to selected attribute information of the received notification, selected via the received user input.

15. The wearable device according to claim 9 , wherein the controller controls the wireless communicator to transmit the information regarding the notification setting to instruct the other device to prioritize a notification for an event when attribute information of the event corresponds to selected attribute information of the received notification, selected via the received user input.

16. The wearable device according to claim 9 , wherein the wireless communication is a Bluetooth communication, a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communication, a Near Field Communication (NFC), a Zigbee communication, an infrared data association (IrDA) communication, or a Wi-Fi Direct (WFD) communication.

17. A system comprising:

a portable device comprising:

a first wireless communicator configured to perform a wireless communication, and

a first controller configured to identify an event and to transmit, via the wireless communication, a first notification in response to the identified event; and

a wearable device comprising:

a second wireless communicator configured to receive, from the portable device via the wireless communication, the first notification,

an output device configured to output the first notification or an indicator of the first notification,

an input device configured to receive, in response to the output first notification or the output indicator of the first notification, a user input of a notification setting with respect to the received first notification, and

a second controller configured to control the second wireless communicator to transmit, to the portable device, information regarding the notification setting,

wherein the first wireless communicator is configured to receive, from the wearable device via the wireless communication, the information regarding the notification setting,

wherein in response to identifying the event again, the first controller is configured to determine, based on the received information, whether to transmit a second notification to the wearable device in response to the identified event, and

wherein the notification setting is a setting of whether or not to receive, by the wearable device from the portable device, notifications corresponding to the event based on an attribute of the event.

18. The system according to claim 17 , wherein:

the received information regarding the notification setting comprises sender information; and

in response to receiving a message from an external device, the first controller determines not to transmit, to the wearable device, a notification notifying of the received message when a sender of the received message corresponds to the sender information.

19. The system according to claim 17 , wherein:

the received information regarding the notification setting comprises application information; and

in response to an event caused by an application, the first controller determines not to transmit, to the wearable device, a notification for the event when the application corresponds to the application information.

20. The system according to claim 17 , wherein:

the received information regarding the notification setting comprises content information; and

in response to an event related to content, the first controller determines not to transmit, to the wearable device, a notification for the event when the content corresponds to the content information.

21. A wearable device comprising:

a communicator configured to receive notification messages from a device connected to the wearable device via short-range wireless communication;

a display configured to display at least one notification message;

an input device configured to receive a user input of a notification setting with respect to the at least one notification message; and

a controller configured to:

control the communicator to transmit, to the device, information regarding the notification setting; and

determine the at least one notification message to be displayed on the display from among the received notification messages, based on information on whether to receive the at least one notification message,

wherein the communicator is further configured to receive, from the device, the information on whether to receive the at least one notification message, the at least one notification message being based on the information regarding the notification setting.

22. A device comprising:

a display configured to display a setting of whether to receive notification messages;

a communicator configured to transmit, to a wearable device connected to the device via short-range wireless communication, information on whether to receive the notification messages; and

a controller configured to:

control, in a state where all the notification messages are set to be receivable by the wearable device, the communicator to receive, from the wearable device, a user input for changing a setting of receivable notification messages,

change the setting of the receivable notification messages, based on the received user input, and

transmit information on the changed setting to the wearable device,

wherein the setting of the receivable notification messages is a setting of whether or not to receive, by the wearable device from the device, notifications corresponding to an event based on an attribute of the event.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 1, 2017
From: JEONG, KYUNG-HO; KIM, SUN-HWA; RA, JIN; RYU, JONG-HYUN; MIN, CHAN-HONG; MIN, JUNG-HYE
To: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 044274/0735 →
Priority Claims (2)
KR 10-2014-0062453 · May 23, 2014 · national
KR 10-2015-0044391 · Mar 30, 2015 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation In Part 14582794 · Dec 24, 2014
Related Publication 20150341903A1 · Nov 26, 2015