Wearable device command regulation

1. A system for regulating alerts received in a mobile device, the system comprising:

an alert storage module to receive alerts and generate a plurality of alert heaps including an application alert heap, an operation system (OS) alert heap, and a sensor alert heap, the plurality of alert heaps each including respective one or more alerts;

a cost analyzer module to determine for an alert a respective cost value associated with issuing a notification of the alert;

an alert prioritizer module to prioritize alerts in the plurality of alert heaps at least based on the cost values of the alerts; and

a command queue module coupled to the alert prioritizer module to generate notification commands based on the prioritized alerts.

2. The system of claim 1 , comprising the mobile device that includes one or more of the alert storage module, the cost analyzer module, the alert prioritizer module, or the command queue module, wherein:

the application alert heap includes alerts associated with application of the mobile device; and

the OS alert heap includes alerts generated by an operating system of the mobile device.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the sensor alert heap includes a device battery status alert.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the sensor alert heap includes a device temperature alert.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the cost analyzer module is to determine the respective cost value using a respective energy-indicated cost and a respective content-indicated cost;

wherein the respective energy-indicated cost indicates relative battery power consumption of issuing a notification of the corresponding alert; and

wherein the respective content-indicated cost indicates relative user preference to a content of the corresponding alert.

6. The system of claim 5 , further comprising a memory to store a first lookup table of an association between the energy-indicated cost and types of notification commands, and a second lookup table of an association between the content-indicated cost and types of alerts,

wherein the cost analyzer module is to update the second lookup table based on a historical usage pattern of an alert.

7. The system of claim 5 , wherein the cost analyzer module is to determine the respective cost value using a weighted combination of the respective energy-indicated cost and the respective content-indicated cost.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the alert prioritizer module is to merge two or more of the plurality of alert heaps to generate a cost-biased leftist heap, the cost-biased leftist heap including a root node and a plurality of leaf nodes, the root node representing an alert with a lower cost value than any other alerts represented by the plurality of the leaf nodes.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the alert prioritizer module is to remove from the cost-biased leftist heap one or more leaf nodes associated with cost values greater than a threshold in response to a low battery alert or a critical device status alert.

10. The system of claim 8 , wherein the alert prioritizer module is to add to the cost-biased leftist heap one alert associated with multiple occurrences of the same event type.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the mobile device includes a communicator module to receive alerts from a wearable device through a communication link, and to transmit the notification commands to the wearable device through the communication link.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the command queue module is to transmit the notification commands to the wearable device based on a battery level of the mobile device.

13. A method for regulating alerts received in a mobile device, the method comprising:

receiving alerts from a mobile device;

generating a plurality of alert heaps including an application alert heap, an operation system alert heap, and a sensor alert heap, where each of the plurality of alert heaps includes respective one or more alerts;

determining, for the alerts in the plurality of alert heaps, respective cost values associated with issuing notifications of the alerts;

prioritizing the alerts in the plurality of alert heaps at least based on the cost values of the alerts; and

generating a queue of notification commands based on the prioritized alerts.

14. The method of claim 13 , further comprising:

establishing a communication link between the mobile device and a wearable device;

receiving one or more alerts from the wearable device through the communication link; and

transmitting the notification commands to the wearable device through the communication link based on a battery level of the mobile device.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein transmitting the notification commands to the wearable device includes:

withholding the transmission of the notification commands when the battery level of the mobile device falls below a threshold indicating low battery status; and

resuming the transmission of the notification commands when the battery level of the mobile device is above the threshold.

16. The method of claim 15 , further comprising storing the notification commands in a non-volatile memory when the battery level is below the threshold level.

17. At least one machine-readable storage medium, comprising a plurality of instructions that, responsive to being executed with processor circuitry of a computing device, cause the computing device to:

receive alerts from a mobile device;

generate a plurality of alert heaps including an application alert heap, an operation system alert heap, and a sensor alert heap, where each of the plurality of alert heaps includes respective one or more alerts;

determine, for the alerts in the plurality of alert heaps, respective cost values associated with issuing notifications of the alerts;

prioritize the alerts in the plurality of alert heaps at least based on the cost values of the alerts; and

generate a queue of notification commands based on the prioritized alerts.

18. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 17 , wherein the operation that prioritizes the alerts includes an operation that merges two or more of the plurality of alert heaps to generate a cost-biased leftist heap.

19. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 17 , further comprising operations that, responsive to being executed with the processor circuitry of the computing device, cause the computing device to:

establish a communication link between the mobile device and a wearable device;

receive one or more alerts from the wearable device through the communication link; and

transmit the notification commands to the wearable device through the communication link.

20. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 17 , wherein the notification commands include one or more of a device light notification command, a device haptic notification command, or a device audio notification command.