Patent number: 9811399

Maintaining temporary white lists for application notifications

Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation

Field of technology: Computer Software

Patent granted on: Tue, 07 Nov 2017

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Abstract

Filtering audible notifications to the user from a device based on an enhanced white list with a static white list set by the user and a temporary white list. The temporary white list includes expiring entries. The entries of the temporary white are based on keywords and context extracted from the applications and activities on the device that are associated with a dependency list between applications of the device and context. If a notification is present on the temporary white list or the static list, the notification from the application audibly sound to the user through the device.