OPPORTUNISTIC TIMING OF DEVICE NOTIFICATIONS

202 - NOTIF CATION OPPORTUNITY NOTIFICATION (51) International Patent Classification: H04L 29/08 (2006.01) H04W 4/23 (2018.01) (21) International Application Number: PCT/US2018/021637 (22) International Filing Date: 09 March 2018 (09.03.2018) (25) Filing Language: English (26) Publication Language: English (30) Priority Data: 15/460,721 16 March 2017 (16.03.2017) US (71) Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LI- CENSING, LLC [US/US]; One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington 98052-6399 (US). (72) Inventors: PRASAD, Richa; MICROSOFT TECHNOL- OGY LICENSING, LLC, One Microsoft Way, Red- mond, Washington 98052-6399 (US). PATTEN, Michael; MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington 98052-6399 (US). (74) Agent: MINHAS, Sandip S. et al.; MICROSOFT TECH- NOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, One Microsoft Way, Red- mond, Washington 98052-6399 (US). (81) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every kind of national protection available): AE, AG, AL, AM, AO, AT, AU, AZ, BA, BB, BG, BH, BN, BR, BW, BY, BZ, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CU, CZ, DE, DJ, DK, DM, DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, GB, GD, GE, GH, GM, GT, HN, HR, HU, ID, IL, IN, IR, IS, JO, JP, KE, KG, KH, KN, KP, KR, KW, KZ, LA, LC, LK, LR, LS, LU, LY, MA, MD, ME, MG, MK, MN, MW, MX, MY, MZ, NA, NG, NI, NO, NZ, OM, PA, PE, PG, PH, PL, PT, QA, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA, SC, SD, SE, SG, SK, SL, SM, ST, SV, SY, TH, TJ, TM, TN, TR, TT, TZ, UA, UG, US, UZ, VC, VN, ZA, ZM, ZW. (84) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every kind of regional protection available): ARIPO (BW, GH, GM, KE, LR, LS, MW, MZ, NA, RW, SD, SL, ST, SZ, TZ, UG, ZM, ZW), Eurasian (AM, AZ, BY, KG, KZ, RU, TJ, TM), European (AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LT, LU, LV, MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, TR), OAPI (BF, BJ, CF, CG, CI, CM, GA, GN, GQ, GW, KM, ML, MR, NE, SN, TD, TG). (54) Title: OPPORTUNISTIC TIMING OF DEVICE NOTIFICATIONS (57) : Many devices are configured to present notifications to a user in an environment, such as mobile phones that ring or buzz to notify the user of an incoming call, and navigation devices that present verbal instructions to a driver of a vehicle. Many such devices present such audio notifications when information with potential relevance to the user is initially identified, but such techniques may interrupt an activity of the user, such as a conversation. Instead, 304 a device may monitor an activity of the user within an envir