Apparatus and methods for suppressing user-alerting actions

A method for affecting notifications on a wearable electronic device, comprising,

• enabling a user of the wearable electronic device to monitor a time synchronous application including a timeline application or a calendar application with a notification-affecting service resident on the wearable electronic device that has one or more user interfaces,
• i) where the wearable electronic device has one or more processors configured to execute the notification-affecting service resident in a memory of the wearable electronic device;
• ii) where the notification-affecting service is configured to
• evaluate multiple events listed, logged, or scheduled in the time synchronous application and
• independently use an intelligence engine configured to determine whether to automatically set a quiet time mode, thereby preventing one or more user-alerting actions regarding a received notification selected from
• a haptic vibration,
• a visual effect on a display screen of the wearable electronic device, including turning on a back light of the wearable electronic device, and
• an audible sound effect emitted from the wearable electronic device;
• the received notification is received by a wireless receiver circuit of the wearable electronic device, where the received notification is selected from any of the group consisting of
• calendar events notifications,
• incoming phone call notifications,
• mobile application generated notifications,
• SMS message notifications, and
• e-mail notifications;
• iii) where portions of the notification-affecting service implemented in software are stored on the memory in an executable format by the one or more processors;
• and
• iv) where the notification-affecting service is configured to suppress the one or more user-alerting actions while the notifications are presented in a first time-ordered stack of notifications on the display screen in the quiet time mode.

A system, comprising:

• a mobile computing device;
• a wearable electronic device configured to pair with the mobile computing device;
• and
• a notification-affecting service resident in a memory of the wearable electronic device that has one or more user interfaces configured to enable a user of the wearable electronic device to monitor a time synchronous application including a timeline application or a calendar application,
• i) where the wearable electronic device has one or more processors configured to execute the notification-affecting service resident in the memory;
• ii) where the notification-affecting service is configured to
• evaluate multiple events listed, logged, or scheduled in the time synchronous application and
• independently use an intelligence engine configured to determine whether to automatically set a quiet time mode, thereby preventing one or more user-alerting actions regarding a received notification selected from
• a haptic vibration,
• a visual effect on a display screen of the wearable electronic device, including turning on a back light of the wearable electronic device, and
• an audible sound effect emitted from the wearable electronic device;
• iii) where the received notification is received by a wireless receiver circuit of the wearable electronic device;
• iv) where the received notification is selected from any of the group consisting of
• calendar events notifications,
• incoming phone call notifications,
• mobile application generated notifications,
• SMS message notifications, and
• e-mail notifications;
• v) where portions of the notification-affecting service implemented in software are stored on the memory in an executable format by the one or more processors;
• and
• vi) where the notification-affecting service is configured to suppress the one or more user-alerting actions while the notifications are presented in a first time-ordered stack of notifications on the display screen in the quiet time mode.