Apple is either looking at apps like Intelliscreen that display info about SMS, Emails and Call/Voice Messages on your lockscreen because they have filed a patent for a notification panel on the lockscreen for the iPhone (and iPod Touch) according to AppleInsider.

“Improved Notification of Missed Communications

A second filing, made a few months earlier, discusses improvements to the iPhone’s notification dialog that informs users of missed calls, text messages, and voicemails when they’re away from their phone or the phone is locked.

Today’s implementation is completely text-based, somewhat poorly formatted, and disappears once the user unlocks the handset — leaving the user to rely on memory and the individual red icon notification badges in order to retrieve and reply to those transmissions.

The iPhone team’s filing instead proposes a more properly formatted notification panel — in one of approximately a half dozen potential layouts — that would not only remain visible once the phone is unlocked, but actually provide direct links or buttons to the missed
communications.

“In response to detecting an interaction by a user with the device, the plurality of icons display notification information for the plurality of communication modalities,” the filing explains. “In response to detecting an unlock interaction by the user with the device, the device is unlocked, and a communication in the plurality of communications is presented that was received while the device was in the locked state, or information about the communication is presented.”

Such an implementation could become increasingly useful once Apple releases support for global push notifications that will allow third party applications to receive transmissions in the background or when the phone is in a locked state. “

[via AppleInsider]

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