Intelligent digital assistant alarm system for application collaboration with notification presentation

A device for providing a catered wake-up experience, comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory in communication with the processor, the memory comprising executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to control the device to perform functions of:
• setting a wake-up alarm in response to received instructions;
• obtaining contextual data pertaining to a device user;
• inferring a new wake-up setting for the device user through a combination of heuristics, pattern recognition methods, learning-algorithms and/or policies that take into account available inputs, contexts and the device user's behaviors and interactions;
• interacting with the device user to confirm the new wake-up setting, the interacting with the device user including asking a clarifying question and receiving the device user's answer to the clarifying question;
• automatically collaborating with a plurality of applications that are distinct from the wake-up alarm, wherein the collaborating includes identifying incoming notifications for the applications that are unique to the respective applications, the device receiving the incoming notifications while the device is not in use;
• automatically extracting contents from the incoming notifications that are dynamic, personal, and unique to the device user;
• using the contextual data pertaining to the device user, determining a contextual relevancy of the content of each incoming notification to the device user;
• selecting, based on the determined contextual relevancy, portions of the contents of the incoming notifications to generate information that is contextually relevant to the device user;
• responsively to the wake-up alarm going off, generating a summary of the contextually relevant information;
• and
• surfacing the generated summary of the contextually relevant information.

A non-transitory computer readable medium containing instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause a device to perform functions of:

• setting a wake-up alarm in response to a received instruction;
• obtaining contextual data pertaining to a device user;
• inferring a new wake-up setting for the device user through a combination of heuristics, pattern recognition methods, learning-algorithms and/or policies that take into account available inputs, contexts and the device user's behaviors and interactions;
• interacting with the device user to confirm the new wake-up setting, the interacting with the device user including asking a clarifying question and receiving the device user's answer to the clarifying question;
• automatically collaborating with a plurality of applications that are distinct from the wake-up alarm, wherein the collaborating includes identifying incoming notifications for the applications that are unique to the respective applications, the device receiving the incoming notifications while the device is not in use;
• automatically extracting contents from the incoming notifications that are dynamic, personal, and unique to the device user;
• using the contextual data pertaining to the device user, determining a contextual relevancy of the content of each incoming notification to the device user;
• selecting, based on the determined contextual relevancy, portions of the contents of the incoming notifications to generate information that is contextually relevant to the device user;
• responsively to the wake-up alarm going off, generating a summary of the contextually relevant information;
• and
• surfacing the generated summary of the contextually relevant information.