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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2010
James H. Stephens, Jr., Austin, TX (US);
James H. Stephens, Jr., Austin, TX (US);
Empire Technology Development LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Technologies described herein generally relate to allocating annunciators to provide annunciations in response to annunciation requests in a computing device. The computing device may include a platform application, which may be configured to receive annunciation requests from applications for providing annunciations. The platform application may discover annunciators capable of providing the at least one annunciation. The platform application may schedule the annunciation request with one of the discovered annunciators and upon scheduling the annunciation request with one of the discovered annunciator, may cause the scheduled annunciator to provide the annunciation in response to the annunciation request. The technologies presented herein can allocate annunciators according to the demands of a user by determining a prioritization level of an annunciation request and an attention limit of the computing device such that the computing device can manage multiple annunciation requests without inundating a user with extraneous annunciations.