Geely-backed phone maker Meizu releases patent for onboard phone message notification

Beijing (Gasgoo)- Meizu Technology (Meizu), the Chinese smartphone maker backed by Geely, released a patent for a way to notify drivers of their phone messages via the breathing lights on cars, according to China’s corporate database Tianyancha.

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The patent is described as a method, device, equipment, and storage medium for message alert based on breathing light. 

Judging from the information released, the technology can establish a communication connection between the cell phone and the car terminal through a preset wireless protocol, and detect whether the cell phone terminal generates pending events. If an event is pending, it will generate an information prompt request corresponding to the pending event, parse the pending event to determine its identification data. Based on the data, the technology can obtain the information prompt content corresponding to the pending event and determine the weight of the information prompt content, therefore turn on and control the breathing light of the vehicle to notify onboard passengers with the message. 

The invention builds a communication link between the cell phone terminal and the car terminal through a preset wireless protocol, which can further visually remind the user through the pattern displayed on the body on the basis of the existing alerting methods.