Google Inc.

Justin R Barber

Selim Flavio Cinek

Allyson E Tong

Madeleine Denise Mellor

Daniel Park

William Levi Frohn

Christopher Richard Wren

Julia Claire Reynolds

Christophe François Chu

A computing device is described that displays a set of graphical elements in a status bar of a graphical user interface. Each graphical element corresponds to a different pending notification. While expanding a notification shade from the status bar, the device displays the graphical elements within an area of the notification shade that is adjacent to a leading edge of the notification shade. Responsive to determining that a particular notification message is newly visible, the device removes, a particular graphical element that corresponds to the particular notification message, and displays the particular graphical element within the particular notification message. In this manner, interaction with the notification area may be more efficient, as during a process of expanding or contracting this area, the user may be informed the underlying state of the set of pending notifications as a whole.

Notification shade with animated reveal of notification indications

In general, techniques of this disclosure may enable a computing device to defer output of a reengagement type notification until the computing device determines that a user is likely to engage with the application or service that generated the notification, as opposed to ignoring or dismissing the notification and/or the application or service. In this way, by precisely controlling its output, the described techniques may enable a computing device to increase a likelihood that a reengagement notification will succeed in reengaging a user with the application or service associated with the notification.

Outputting reengagement alerts by a computing device

Display screen with an animated graphical user interface

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Menlo Park, CA, United States of America

Justin R Barber