Patent ID: 8838713

Claim:
A data processing device comprising: notification processing circuitry configured to provide a notification to a user in response to a data processing event at the data processing device or at another data processing device connected to the data processing device; and interface circuitry configured to provide a user interface to receive a first user input to attend to the notification to carry out a data processing task related to the data processing event, and a second user input indicating that the user has finished attending to the notification, wherein the notification processing circuitry is further configured to inhibit further notifications based on priority data when the interface circuitry begins to receive the first user input and until the interface circuitry receives the second user input, maintain the priority data associated with different types of notifications, the priority data defining whether a notification of a particular type should be provided while the interface circuitry receives the first user input, and change the priority data based on a number of times that each of the different types of the notifications has been attended to.