Samsung patents phone feature that filters alerts based on your history
Samsung has filed a patent for a method where an electronic device analyzes incoming data from sensors or inputs. It uses your past usage habits or conversation records to decide how important that information is, then controls what gets displayed or played through an output device.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device configured to control an output device, and an operating method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes memory storing one or more computer programs, and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the at least one input device, the at least one output device, and the memory, wherein the one or more computer programs include computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to obtain surrounding situation information from an input device, determine an importance of the surrounding situation information by using at least one of usage history or a conversation record of a user, and output the surrounding situation information through an output device based on the determined importance of the surrounding situation information.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1.- 20. (canceled)
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OUTPUT DEVICE
- Publication number
- US20260330830A1
- Application number
- 19727690
- Filed
- Jul 1, 2026
- Published
- Oct 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 21
Classified under
G06V 20/20 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in AI & software
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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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