Samsung patents phone feature that groups and summarizes notifications
Samsung has filed a patent for a method where a phone groups related notifications together. It sends these grouped messages to a server, which creates a single summary notification that is then displayed on the screen.
In the filing’s own words
A method and an electronic device are provided. The method includes a display, a communication module, memory, including one or more storage media, storing instructions, and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the display, the communication module, and the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to receive a first notification through the communication module and display the first notification, identify a second notification capable of being grouped with the first notification, transmit the first notification and the second notification to a server through the communication module, acquire, from the server, a summary notification generated based on the first notification and the second notification, and display the generated summary notification on the display.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device comprising: a display; a communication module; memory, comprising one or more storage media, storing instructions; and at least one processorcommunicatively coupled to the display, the communication module, and the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to: receive a first notification through the communication module and display the first notification, identify a second notification capable of being grouped with the first notification, transmit the first notification and the second notification to a server through the communication module, acquire, from the server, a summary notification generated based on the first notification and the second notification, and display the generated summary notification on the display.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- METHOD FOR PROVIDING NOTIFICATION AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREFOR
- Publication number
- US20260281229A1
- Application number
- 19670580
- Filed
- May 7, 2026
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04M 1/72436 Electricity & electronicsH04M 1/72454 Electricity & electronicsMore from Samsung in Phones & computers
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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