Controlling electronic device alerts by operating head mounted display

An immersive head-mounted display (IHMD) comprising:

• a hardware data receiving component operable to receive data indicative of alert data generated by one or more electronic appliances;
• a processing unit, having one or more hardware processors communicatively coupled to the hardware data receiving component, and operable to a cause a display device to pause rendering primary content and display one or more user interface elements for presenting or ignoring alert content when an alarm level of the alert data is determined to be high, according to a predetermined alarm level that is user defined, and to continue rendering the primary content and display the one or more user interface elements for presenting or ignoring the alert content when the alarm level is determined to be low according to the predetermined alarm level;
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• the display device, coupled to the processing unit, the display device operable to generate a graphical user interface featuring the primary content and the one or more user interface elements for presenting or ignoring the alert content and to pause rendering of the primary content upon receipt of an input for presenting the alert content, wherein the alert content identifies the one or more electronic appliances that generated the alert data and information describing the alert data.

A method comprising:

• receiving, at a hardware receiving component, alert data sent from one or more electronic appliances that are communicatively coupled to the hardware receiving component, the one or more electronic appliances associated with a user;
• causing, by a control device, a display device of an immersive head-mounted display (IHMD), to pause rendering of primary content and display one or more user interface elements for presenting or ignoring alert content when the control device determines an alarm level of the alert data is high, according to a predetermined alarm level that is user defined, and to continue rendering the primary content and display the one or more user interface elements for presenting or ignoring the alert content when the control device determines the alarm level is low according to the predetermined alarm level;
• displaying, on a display device of the IHMD, a graphical user interface including the primary content and the one or more user interface elements for presenting or ignoring the alert content;
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• pausing, by the IHMD, rendering of the primary content upon receipt of an input for presenting the alert content,
• wherein the alert content identifies the one or more electronic appliances that generated the alert data and information describing the alert data.