US 2025/0028577 A1Published application

Distributed and persisted user notifications

AssigneeDell Products L.P.

InventorsDaniel Thomas Daugherty, Nagesh Ram Mohan Maddala, Michael D. Luczak

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Abstract

Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented to utilize a centralized common notification manager logic that is locally on an information handling system to display on-screen notifications (such as pop-up notifications) to one or more current system users from multiple different operating system (OS) services, and/or to receive system user input via these displayed on-screen notifications, without use of any network communication between the notification manager logic and the respective user application space/s of the current system user/s that execute on the information handling system. The disclosed systems and methods may be so implemented without requiring each OS service to have its own dedicated separate and different interface and/or process that is executing in the logged-in user's application space.

Claims23

Dependent claims

A method, comprising using at least one programmable integrated circuit of an information handling system to:

execute one or more notification user processes within different respective user application spaces on the information handling system;
execute a notification manager process in communication with each of the notification user processes and with multiple different background operating system (OS) services;
and
execute the notification manager process to:
receive a first notification request including first common notification data specifying a first desired common on-screen notification layout from a first one of the multiple different background OS services, the first common notification data designating at least one of the notification user processes and specifying a first requested on-screen notification for display to a user in the user application space of the designated notification user process,
assign a first unique identifier to the first requested on-screen notification and provide the first unique identifier to the first one of the multiple different background OS services,
find the at least one notification user process designated by the first common notification data, and
send the received first common notification data with the first unique identifier of the first requested on-screen notification to the designated notification user process;
and
execute the designated notification user process to attempt to display the specified first requested on-screen notification to a user on a display device of the information handling system and in the user application space of the designated notification user process.

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An information handling system, comprising at least one programmable integrated circuit that is programmed to:

execute one or more notification user processes within different respective user application spaces on the information handling system;
execute a notification manager process in communication with each of the notification user processes and with multiple different background operating system (OS) services;
and
execute the notification manager process to:
receive a first notification request including first common notification data specifying a first desired common on-screen notification layout from a first one of the multiple different background OS services, the first common notification data designating at least one of the notification user processes and specifying a first requested on-screen notification for display to a user in the user application space of the designated notification user process,
assign a first unique identifier to the first requested on-screen notification and provide the first unique identifier to the first one of the multiple different background OS services,
find the at least one notification user process designated by the first common notification data, and
send the received first common notification data with the first unique identifier of the first requested on-screen notification to the designated notification user process;
and
execute the designated notification user process to attempt to display the specified first requested on-screen notification to a user on a display device of the information handling system and in the user application space of the designated notification user process.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.