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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2012
Applicant:
Nigel Stuart Moore, Newbury, GB;
Inventor:
Nigel Stuart Moore, Newbury, GB;
Assignees:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Europe Limited, Weybridge, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04N 21/433 (2011.01); H04N 21/4788 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01); H04N 21/466 (2011.01); H04N 21/488 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4333 (2013.01); H04N 21/4788 (2013.01); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01); H04N 21/4667 (2013.01); H04N 21/4882 (2013.01);
Abstract
A data processing device comprises a notification controller configured to provide notification to a user in response to a data processing event at that device or another device to which that device is connected; and a user interface by which the user can attend to a user notification to carry out a data processing task relating to the notified data processing event; the notification controller being configured to inhibit further notifications while the user is attending to a current notification using the user interface.