Categorized handling of electronic communications
AssigneeMyine Electronics, Inc.
InventorsScott SMEREKA, Joey Ray GROVER
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Abstract
A recipient communications device associated with a vehicle computing system (VCS) may be configured to receive, over a communications network, an incoming communication from a sender communications device, identify a notification type to provide based on a message directive provided by the sender device, retrieve notification settings associated with the notification type, and perform a notification of receipt of the incoming communication using a VCS user interface according to the notification settings.
Claims18
A system comprising:
- a recipient communications device associated with a vehicle computing system (VCS) and configured to:
- receive, over a communications network, an incoming communication from a sender communications device,
- identify a notification type to provide based on a message directive provided by the sender device,
- retrieve notification settings associated with the notification type, and
- perform a notification of receipt of the incoming communication using a VCS user interface according to the notification settings.
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a recipient communications device over a communications network, an incoming communication from a sender communications device;
- identifying, by the recipient communications device, a notification type to provide based on a message directive provided by the sender device;
- retrieving notification settings associated with the notification type;
- and
- performing a notification of receipt of the incoming communication in accordance with the notification settings.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium including instructions that when executed by a recipient communications device cause the recipient communications device to:
- receive, over a communications network, an incoming communication from a sender communications device;
- identify a notification type to provide based on a message directive provided by the sender device;
- retrieve notification settings associated with the notification type;
- and
- perform a notification of receipt of the incoming communication in accordance with the notification settings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.