Methods for providing an alert or an alarm to a user of a mobile communications device

• Main Authors: Mensinger, Michael Robert, Dunn, Laura J, Hannemann, Christopher Robert, Smith, Brian Christopher, Davis, Anna Leigh, Koehler, Katherine Yerre, Pupa, Philip Thomas, Goldsmith, Timothy Joseph, Polytaridis, Nicholas, Draeger, Rian W, Kamath, Apurv Ullas, McBride, Patrick Wile, Belliveau, Scott M, Shoemaker, Kevin, Wiley, Atiim Joseph, Cabrera, Jr., Esteban, Hampapuram, Hari, Pellouchoud, Philip Mansiel, Pascual, Francis William, West, Benjamin Elrod, Morris, Gary A
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 20.08.2024
• Subjects: ALARM SYSTEMS; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROMTHE BODY; DIAGNOSIS; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING ORPROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; IDENTIFICATION; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; PHYSICS; SIGNALLING; SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; SURGERY; TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION; TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHICCOMMUNICATION; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

Methods, devices and systems are disclosed for inter-app communications between software applications on a mobile communications device. In one aspect, a computer-readable medium on a mobile computing device comprising an inter-application communication data structure to facilitate transitioning and distributing data between software applications in a shared app group for an operating system of the mobile computing device includes a scheme field of the data structure providing a scheme id associated with a target software app to transition to from a source software app, wherein the scheme id is listed on a scheme list stored with the source software app; and a payload field of the data structure providing data and/or an identification where to access data in a shared file system accessible to the software applications in the shared app group, wherein the payload field is encrypted.