Patent Document ID: 8156434
Application ID: 11772203
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A system comprising: one or more processors; a system memory in communication with the one or more processors; one or more computing device display mediums; one or more monitoring devices acting to monitor a user's focus on the one or more computing device display mediums; and a message management module acting to manage system messages responsive to monitoring by the one or more monitoring devices, wherein said message management module acts to: categorize system messages as first category messages comprising one or more critical messages or second category messages comprising one or more non-critical messages, wherein the one or more critical messages includes at least one message selected from the group consisting of: a low battery warning message and a back-up reminder message; filter display of the system messages on the one or more computing device display mediums based on a user's focus as determined by the one or more monitoring devices, wherein filtering comprises: suppressing display of the one or more first category messages and permitting display of the one or more second category messages at the one or more computing device display mediums responsive to the user's focus being below a threshold value; and suppressing display of the one or more second category messages and permitting display of the one or more first category messages at the one or more computing device display mediums responsive to the user's focus being above a threshold value.