Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Vijay Chandrasekaran

Ats Jenk

Daniel James Chastney

Onur Cinar

Nicholas Mark Cordrey

In a system for preventing duplicate notifications including a processor and a computer-readable medium in communication with the processor, the computer-readable medium includes instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor alone or in combination with other processors to control the system to perform operating first and second applications associated with a same user account; receiving one or more notifications indicating an occurrence of an event associated with the user account; determining, based upon a communication received from the first application or based upon a focus status of the first application, whether the first application has displayed or will display the first indication via the user interface; and responsive to determining that the first application has displayed or will display the first notification, suppressing output of the second notification by the second application via the user interface.

Suppressing indications of events in user interfaces

In a system for outputting a notification including a processor and a computer-readable medium, the computer-readable medium includes instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to control the system to perform operating a plurality of software sets, each software set configured to individually cause the system to output a separate notification in response to an occurrence of an event commonly associated with the plurality of software sets; detecting that, in response to the occurrence of the commonly associated event, the plurality of software sets is set to cause the system to output a plurality of notifications, respectively, each notification being indicative of the occurrence of the event; and in response to detecting that that the plurality of software sets is set to cause the system to output the plurality of notifications, respectively, causing the system to output fewer than all of the plurality of notifications.

In a device including a user interface, a processor and a memory in communication with the processor, the memory includes executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to control the device to perform functions of detecting an occurrence of an event, the device configured to generate a plurality of user notifications in response to the occurrence of the event, and causing only one of the plurality of user notifications to be output via the user interface while suppressing other user notifications such that duplicate user notifications of the event are prevented.

Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for preventing duplicate indications of events. In an implementation, a computing apparatus determines, in response to an occurrence of an event, that multiple indications of the event would surface in a user interface on the computing apparatus. In response, the computing apparatus suppresses one or more of the multiple indications of the event from surfacing in the user interface and causes only one indication of the event to display on the user interface on the computing apparatus as a result of the occurrence of the event.

Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for handling incoming communications. In an implementation, a notification of an incoming communication is received. Duplicate indications of the incoming communication are avoided by determining whether an indication associated with an application will be surfaced. If not, then an indication of the incoming communication may be surfaced in association with another application. However, if the indication associated with the application will be surfaced, then the other notification associated with the other application may be suppressed.

Suppressing indications of incoming communications in user interfaces

A user terminal, the user terminal comprising a communication client application for managing communications with at least one further user terminal over a first network, the communication client application being configured to: determine with respect to at least one outgoing call the first network is a lower bandwidth data network; generate an interrupt message to be displayed; determine a user input in response to the interrupt message; and manage a placement of the communications with the at least one further user terminal over the first network based on the user input.

Managing communication events

Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for handling incoming communications. In an implementation, an application receives a notification of an incoming communication for which a related application may have also received a related notification of the incoming communication. Prior to surfacing an indication of the incoming communication in a user interface, the application ascertains whether or not the related application will surface a related indication. If so, the application suppresses its own indication in favor of the related application. If not, the application surfaces its own indication.

A user terminal associated with a first user, the user terminal comprising a communication client application for managing communications with at least one further user terminal over a first network, the communication client application being configured to: determine with respect to at least one incoming call whether a further user terminal at the call origin point comprises the communication client application; and manage the reception of the call based on the determination of whether the further user terminal at the call origin point comprises the communication client application.

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Vijay Chandrasekaran