Determining whether and/or when to provide notifications, based on application content, to mitigate computationally wasteful application-launching behavior
US11609806B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 31, 2022 |
| Grant date | Mar 21, 2023 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 31, 2042 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L51/18
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Implementations set forth herein relate to intervening notifications provided by an application for mitigating computationally wasteful application launching behavior that is exhibited by some users. A state of a module of a target application can be identified by emulating user inputs previously provided by the user to the target application. In this way, the state of the module can be determined without visibly launching the target application. When the state of the module is determined to satisfy criteria for providing a notification to the user, the application can render a notification for the user. The application can provide intervening notifications for a variety of different target applications in order to reduce a frequency at which the user launches and closes applications to check for variations in target application content.
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