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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2023

Filed:

Nov. 15, 2021
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Imran A. Chaudhri, San Francisco, CA (US);

Gregory Novick, San Francisco, CA (US);

Scott Forstall, Los Altos, CA (US);

Morgan Grainger, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

George R. Dicker, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Tyler Hawkins, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/72463 (2021.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); H04M 19/04 (2006.01); G06F 3/0488 (2022.01); H04M 1/72451 (2021.01); H04M 1/72457 (2021.01); G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2022.01); G06F 3/0484 (2022.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/72463 (2021.01); G06F 3/016 (2013.01); G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/167 (2013.01); H04M 1/72451 (2021.01); H04M 1/72457 (2021.01); H04M 19/045 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04803 (2013.01);
Abstract

In some implementations, a computing device can be configured to automatically turn off notifications when generating a notification would cause a disturbance or be unwanted by a user. The device can be configured with quiet hours during which notifications that would otherwise be generated by the computing device can be suppressed. In some implementations, quiet hours can be configured as a time period with a start time and an end time. In some implementations, quiet hours can be derived from application data. For example, calendar data, alarm clock data, map data, etc. can be used to determine when quiet hours should be enforced. In some implementations, the device can be configured with exceptions to quiet hour notification suppression. In some implementations, the user can identify contacts to which the quiet hours notification suppression should not be applied.


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