Patent ID: 9712660
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of operating a companion device, the method comprising: receiving, at the companion device, a notification intended for an accessory application at an accessory device, wherein the received notification includes a notification identifier and context data of the notification; determining an accessory application identifier from the received notification, the accessory application identifier identifying the accessory application for which the received notification is intended; and providing the notification identifier of the received notification and the determined accessory application identifier to a forwarding application at the accessory device; receiving, at a companion daemon executing on the companion device, a request from the accessory device for content, the request including the notification identifier of the received notification; retrieving, from the companion device memory, the context data of the received notification using the notification identifier in the request; obtaining the content based on the retrieved context data; and sending the obtained content and context data from the companion device to the accessory device for display with the notification.