TH77385A - Positioning and displaying a notification header based on the focus of the user's attention and activity. - Google Patents

Abstract

------ 22/01/2018 ------ (OCR) page 1 of number 1 page invention summary. The invention involves systems and methods to help provide computer users with available access. Effectiveness of electronic reporting, while minimizing interruptions in the The context of the work in progress The notification system provides a visual information header that provides a summary of the notification to the user. The information controller determines the importance or acceleration of the Current and / or recent searches and activities In making decisions about acting and placing The location of the information header on the display or monitor to facilitate user processing. ------------ This invention relates to systems and methods to help equip computer users with minimal interruption. The It provides effective access to electronic reporting while minimizing hitches. The least number of dogs in the context of the work in progress The notification system provides an information herald section that provides a summary of the user report. Information controller Consider the importance or urgency of the current body and activities and / or when For a long time, it was time to decide on the display and placement of the information header on the screen. Display results to aid the user processing of notices summarized by the confusion of the task. Running at least

Claims (51)

------22/01/2561------(OCR) Page 1 of 7 pages. Claims 1. The notification system consists of a readable computer storage medium containing executable computer instructions. When executed on one computer, this instruction produces a notification to a user of the computer when displayed on one or more computer displays. The notification relates to a message of assigned urgency, and the information controller receives incoming instructions of interest to that user and determines the user's current activity and the purpose of interest based on those incoming instructions. Dynamically, the selection of a location on one or more displays relies on the user's current activity, purpose of interest, and assigned urgency, and presents the notification information at the selected location. This selected location is the distance of the notification information from the purpose of interest. 1. User interest decreases as urgency increases. 2. The system of claim 1: The information controller receives input relating to user activity and uses one or more interest models to generate one or more dynamic output orders to control how information topics are delivered to various users in the workspace. 3. The system of claim 2: Information topics operate at various locations in the workspace and receive dynamically adjustable information from the information controller to control those locations and format the information topics. 4. The system of claim 2: The information controller provides interest-sensitive layout and formatting of information topics based on user activity through interest models or other input relating to visual attention focus, including gaze and gesture information. 5. The system of claim 1: The information controller removes information topics after some information topics have a threshold or fade from view over time. 6. The system of claim 1: Information topics provide highly detailed information. Furthermore, when users select information topics via input commands (Page 2 of 7), 7. System Claim 6: Input commands encompass at least one of the following: button clicks, mouse clicks, mouse movement, and/or voice commands. 8. System Claim 1: The information controller encompasses controls for pauses after the waiting period, allowing users to continue working with or without looking at the information topic. 9. System Claim 8: The information controller processes implied signals from various users indicating that the user is not interested in the information presented in the information topic without explicit user action requests. 10. System Claim 1: The information controller encompasses at least one of the following: dynamic positioning control, dynamic scaling control, dynamic content control, dynamic lighting and shading control, dynamic sound control, dynamic timing control, and dynamic fading control. 11. System Claim 10: The dynamic lighting and shading control is used to change... 11. The appearance of information headings or content within them is based on urgency and user-defined activity. This appearance includes at least one color, shape, and/or font. 12. System of Claim 1: Information headings are dynamically adjusted into icon form based on summary notifications or user actions. 13. System of Claim 1: Summary notifications encompass at least one line of text, block of text, or text frame. 14. System of Claim 1: Information headings are dynamically positioned based on automatically assigned urgency values for notifications. 15. System of Claim 1 also includes audio headings controlled by an information controller that provides audio signals representing the urgency of incoming messages. 16. System of Claim 15: The information controller uses only audio headings or adds audio signals when no user is detected. 17. System of Claim 1: The information controller uses the time remaining for displaying the heading. An information topic whose priority adjusts dynamically depending on the distance of the topic's display position from the user's point of interest or task. Page 3 of 7, page 18. The system of claim 17: The information topic is embedded into a journal or topic folder after a previously set time. Such journal or topic folder allows the user to review the information topic at a later time. 19. A system comprising a readable computer storage medium that facilitates text processing by a single user includes: a method for automatically prioritizing text; a method for generating topics with summaries of such text; a method for determining the user's current point of interest; a method for dynamically positioning the information topic in the user's workspace; a method for expanding information related to the text presented in the user's workspace based on user input related to the topic; where the text's priority increases over time without the user relating user input to the topic; and a method for dynamically positioning the topic so that the distance between the topic position and the user's point of interest decreases with increasing priority. 20. The importance of the message. The system of claim 19 also includes methods for analyzing user activity to dynamically locate the message. 21. The method for automatic user notification includes processor operations to perform a procedure involving: determining the output area of the displayed result for the automatic message; assigning priority to the automatic message; placing the message in the automatic output area; assigning an automatic user's focus; placing the output area in the default area of the automatic workspace; increasing the message priority based on time progression; and dynamically moving the output area. The output area is spaced relative to the defined focus; therefore, the separation between the output area and the focus is reduced as the message priority increases, and on page 4 of 7, the output area is separated from the focus; thus, the output area does not overlap with the current job position. 22. The method of claim 21 also includes determining the output area location. 23. The method of Claim 21 also involves altering the appearance of the auto-export area based on at least one user detection priority or activity. 24. The method of Claim 21 also involves applying at least one auto-export control to dynamically alter the auto-export area. At least one control can be applied to position, size, content, appearance, sound, or time. 25. The method of Claim 21 also involves summarizing auto-export text before placing it in the auto-export area. 26. The method of Claim 21 also involves moving auto-export content related to the auto-export area to an electronic journal for postponed review. 27. The detection activity of Claim 21 is defined to conform to the model described. 28. The model of Claim 27 processes position, visual posture, calendar, time, appointment status, audio signals, target application, monitoring range, and application usage patterns. and/or the user's device activity to determine at least one of the user's points of interest. 29. The method for controlling notifications to a single user consists of: operating at least one processor to perform one of the following methods: observing user activity; determining the user's point of interest based on user activity; determining the position on the display of the user's current point of interest; creating a point of interest model to analyze user activity; the point of interest model analyzes the user's cost of utility holdings in a point of interest that is disrupted by tasks or communication events. Page 5 of 7. Selecting a distance based on at least one utility program generated from the point of interest model; and dynamically placing emergency information within the workspace at the distance selected from the user's current point of interest. 30. The method of claim 29: such costs are assessed based on the willingness to pay. 31. The method of claim 29 also involves calculating the expected cost of interference [ECI (Effective Corruption Invention)] by summing the utility, weighted by the slope of each interest state, under the condition that a stream of perceived information is entering. The ECI is defined as ECI=X p(Aj |E)u(Dj, Aj), where p(Dj, Aj) is the utility slope A; the interest state slope Dj is the task or communication event slope; and p(Aj |E) is the probability slope of the interest state under the condition that stream E is entering. 32. The method for controlling notifications to a specific user involves observing user activity; determining the user's focus of attention based on observed activity; providing one or more user controls on the display; and allowing the user to define preferences regarding how topics are displayed, and those preferences encompass the following: The adjustments shall at least allow users to define the priority level of the topic section below the threshold, so that the topic section remains at the outer edge of the display. The priority setting for a given topic section dynamically controls the display position of that topic section. Dynamic control includes: when the priority of the given topic section is below the threshold, display the topic section at the outer edge of the display; and when the priority of the given topic section is above the threshold, display the topic section at a position that is a certain distance from the user's defined point of interest on page 6 of 7. The selection is based on at least 33. The method of Claim 32 also includes providing access points to user controls for topic sections to structure policies regarding the positioning and display of such topic sections. 34. The method of Claim 32 also includes providing areas or nodes with topic sections that allow access to the controls for general adjustments or for the case currently in use. 35. The method of Claim 32, one or more user controls consisting of panels... 36. Numerous controls are provided for specifying the priority order of topic sections. The method of claim 32 also includes controls for opening and closing the complex structure related to topic sections. 37. The method of claim 32's controls include a general gesture that allows the user to ignore a topic section for a certain period of time. 38. The method of claim 37's controls are coupled with a "snooze" feature, which allows the user to point to a previously defined time period for the topic section to rewind. 39. The method of claim 32 dynamically positions topics relative to the user's predefined focus points based on the urgency of the message. 40. The method of claim 32 also includes making the topic section item disappear automatically when the user is detected as absent. 41. The method of claim 40 also includes providing a snooze function based on the assigned importance of the section. The topics appearing in the list of section 42. Method of claim 41 also includes arranging important topics in a first folder and pausing topics in a shortcut folder. 43. Method of claim 32 also includes analyzing automatic space and time constraints based on the application program model, the structure of the information displayed related to the application, or interaction specifically with the current or latest application content. 44. Method of claim 43 uses such constraints to ensure that topics do not confuse important content or interfere with the current interaction and to minimize interference with the display of topics. Page 7 of 7. 45. Method of claim 43 also includes automatically positioning restricted areas over selected sections of the user display or results to ensure that sections... The topic is not positioned in a way that overlaps with the user's current workspace. 46. The method of claim 45 also involves processing the user's current activity and providing a temporary restricted area for a short period of time that is applied to delay the display of the topic section. 1. The notification system consists of an information topic section that presents a summarized notification and an information control unit that receives user-related interest input to generate fluid information topics on one or more displays to help users process the summarized notification. 2. The system of claim 1: The information controller shall receive inputs relating to user activity and use one or more interest models to generate one or more dynamic outputs to control the information provided to users at the workspace. 3. The system of claim number 2, under the heading "Operating Information," operates at various locations within the workspace and receives dynamically adaptive data from information controllers to provide non-distracting and non-confusing notifications to users. 4. The system of claim number 2, the information controller, provides attention-sensitive input and structure of information topics based on user activity through attention models or other inputs related to visual attention focus, including gaze and posture information. 5. The system of claim number 1, the information controller, will remove information topics from view over time after the threshold has passed or caused them to fade away. 6. The system for claim 1, specifically the information topic section, provides more detailed information when the user selects an information topic section via the input command. 7. The system of claim number 6, the input command, includes at least one button press, mouse click, mouse movement, and voice command. 8. The system of claim number 1, the information controller, has a timer for monitoring the waiting period, allowing users to continue working with or without viewing the information topic. 9. Under claim number 8, the information controller will process implied signals from the user that they are not interested in the information presented in the information topic without requiring any explicit action from the user. 10. The system of claim number 1, the Information Control, has at least one of the following: dynamic positioning, dynamic scaling, dynamic content control, dynamic display control, dynamic sound control, dynamic timing control, and dynamic fading control. 11. The system of claims in Article 10, Dynamic Controls, is used to alter the appearance of the information headings or content therein. Such appearance includes at least one color, shape, and font style. 12. The system for claim number 1, specifically the information heading, is dynamically updated to an icon format when a summary is reported or an action is taken by the user. 13. The system of claim number 1, a summarized notification, will contain at least one line of text, the main text, and a summary of the text. 14. The system of claims under point 1, specifically the information topics, is dynamically positioned closer to the user's focus. 15. The system of claim number 1, the information subject matter, is dynamically positioned based on automatically assigned urgency values for notification. 16. The system of claim number 1, which also includes a voice subject section controlled by the information controller using voice indications that represent the urgency of incoming messages. 17. Under claim 16, the information controller shall use only the audio heading or add audio cues when no user is detected. 18. The system of claim number 1, the information controller, uses the time remaining for an information topic which can be shortened or lengthened depending on whether that topic is being displayed or the user's workload. 19. The system of claims under clause 18, the information subject matter, is attached to the journal or subject matter folder after a previously set time has passed, allowing the user to later review the information subject matter. 20. A computer-readable medium containing executable instructions stored therein to implement at least one of the information subject matter and information controllers of Claim 1. 21. A system that assists in user-generated message processing, comprising pathways for automatic message prioritization, pathways for message summarization, and pathways for dynamically locating data within the user's workspace. 22. The system of claims in clause 21, which also includes a method for analyzing user activity to determine the dynamic location of messages. 23. Methods for automated user notification, comprising: automatically defining an output area for messages; placing messages within the automatic output area; automatically placing the output area within the default workspace; and dynamically moving the output area based on detected user activity. 24. The method of claim 23, which also includes prioritizing automated messages. 25. The method of claim 24, which also involves automatic output movement, adheres to priority. 26. A method under claim 24 that automatically changes the appearance of the output area based on the priority and at least one detected user activity. 27. The method of claim 23, which also involves the use of at least one automatic control to change the dynamic output region, such at least one control relates to position, size, content, appearance, sound, and time. 28. The method of claim 23, which also includes automatic text summarization. 29. The method of claim 23, which also includes the automatic transfer of content related to the output area to the electronic journal. 30. Method of Claim 1: The detected activities will be determined according to the model. 31. The methodology of claim 30 involves at least one positional processing model, visual gestures, calendar, time, appointment status, audible signals, focused application, monitoring range, application usage pattern, and user device activity to determine the user's focus of attention. 32. A method for controlling user notifications, comprising monitoring user activity, creating interest models to analyze user activity, and incorporating informational alerts within a dynamic workspace based at least partially on the output generated from the interest model. 33. The method of claim 32, the interest model, infers the cost of different types of disturbance when a user has a particular interest state. 34. The method of claim 33, the interest model, analyzes the utility u(Di,Aj) capturing the cost of the user in interest state Aj, which is being disturbed by the task or communication event Di. 35. In accordance with the claim in clause 34, such costs can be assessed as a willingness to pay to avoid interference, in dollars for each grouping. 36. The method of claim 34, which also involves calculating the expected cost of disturbance (ECI) by finding the sum of the utility weighted by the probability of each interest state, provided that the incoming information stream is perceived, i.e., ECI = sigma p(Aj IE)u(Di, Aj), where p(Aj IE) is the probability of the interest state provided that the incoming information stream E is perceived. 37. Methods for controlling notifications to users, comprising monitoring user activity, providing one or more user controls to guide topic sections, and dynamic topic control based on at least one user activity and user control section. 38. The method of the claim in Article 37, which also includes providing entry points into the headings for the determination of the headings' positioning and presentation. 39. The method of claim 37, which also includes providing an area or a button with a heading that allows access to the control for general adjustment or for the case currently in use. 40. The method of claiming Article 37, the control section, is provided as a control panel, densely packed for identifying the sequence of requirements regarding the topic sections. 41. The method of claim 37, which also includes control components for opening and closing the complex structure related to the topic section. 42. The method of claiming Article 37 of the Controls Act has a general stance that allows the user to ignore a topic section for a period of time. 43. The method of claiming Article 43 of the control section is linked to a "sleep" feature which allows the user to point to a previously set time for the topic section to rewind. 44. The method of the claim in Article 37, in terms of headings, is positioned dynamically, taking into account the urgency related to the text. 45. The method of claiming clause 37, which also includes providing a list of topics that were missed while the user was detected as absent, is automatically implemented. 46. The method of claim 37, which also includes the provision of a timer function, takes into account the importance assigned to the topics listed in the topic list. 47. The method of claim 46, which also involves sorting the important topic sections into the first folder and the timed topic sections into subsequent folders. 48. The method of claim 37, which also includes an analysis of the time and duration limits, relies on the software application model, the structure of the displayed information relating to the application, or whether there is any interaction at that time, specifically with the application content. 49. The method of claim 48, the limitation, is used to ensure that headings do not obstruct the essential content or interfere with the interaction at hand and to minimize interference with the presentation of headings. 50. The method of claim 48, which also involves automatically positioning an empty area over the selected portion of the user's display to ensure that the topic is not placed in a position that would overlap with the area the user is currently working on. 51. The method of claim 50, which also involves processing user activity at that time and providing a temporarily vacant space for a short period of time, is applied to delay the display of such topic section.