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US 8,818,341 B2Granted
Wristwatch notification for late trains
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorZachary Michael van Schouwen
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Abstract
Transit delay can be automated and pushed directly to a mobile device of a user based on a rank of usefulness within the mobile device interface. The closest transit station to a user's current position may be determined. An implementation may receive a current status of a transit delay in respect to the nearby transit station. A notification relating to the transit delay may be displayed on a mobile device of the user based on a relative priority of the notification, relative to other notifications available to be displayed on a mobile device of the user.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- receiving a location of a user associated with a mobile computing device;
- determining a location of a transit station near the user;
- receiving a current status of a transit delay associated with the transit station;
- receiving, by the mobile computing device, a plurality of notifications that are each available to be displayed at a display device, the plurality of notifications comprising a notification based on the transit delay and one or more other notifications;
- determine, based on a distance between the location of the user and the location of the transit station, a priority of the notification based on the transit delay, the priority of the notification based on the transit delay being relative to respective priorities of each of the one or more other notifications;
- responsive to determining that the priority of the notification based on the transit delay indicates that the notification based on the transit delay is of greater importance than each of the one or more other notifications available to be displayed at the display device;
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- while refraining from outputting, for display at the display device, any of the one or more other notifications from the plurality of notifications, outputting, by the mobile computing device, for display at the display device, the notification based on the transit delay, wherein the notification based on the transit delay comprises information indicating the current status of the transit delay at the transit station and a proximity of the location of the user to the location of the transit station.
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A mobile computing device comprising:
- at least one processor configured to:
- receive a location of a user associated with the mobile computing device and a current status of a transit delay associated with a transit station;
- receive a plurality of notifications that are each available to be displayed at a display device, the plurality of notifications comprising a notification based on the transit delay and one or more other notifications;
- determine, based on a distance between the location of the user and a location of the transit station, a priority of the notification based on the transit delay, the priority of the notification based on the transit delay being relative to respective priorities of each of the one or more other notifications;
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- responsive to determining that the priority of the notification based on the transit delay indicates that the notification based on the transit delay is of greater importance than each of the one or more other notifications available to be displayed at the display device;
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- while refraining from outputting, for display at the display device, any of the one or more other notifications from the plurality of notifications, output, for display at the display device, the notification based on the transit delay, wherein the notification based on the transit delay comprises information indicating the current transit delay at the transit station and a proximity of the location of the user to the location of the transit station.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.