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20080215976 | AUTOMATED SUPPORT SCHEME FOR ELECTRONIC FORMS - Actions associated with entering information into different fields of an electronic form are monitored. The types of support provided for entering the information into the different fields can be dynamically varied according to monitored user actions or according to the context or categories of users, fields, or forms. Different types of query or search engines can be used to further identify the context, intent, or meaning of information entered into the different fields. The identified context, intents, or meanings are then used to provide further on-line support. Other analytics of both field entries and user actions can also be used to provide addition help when entering information into the on-line forms. | 09-04-2008 |
20080229198 | Electronically providing user assistance - Provided embodiments include a device, apparatus, system, computer program product, and method. A provided method includes receiving a signal indicative of a user-selected portion of a manual pertaining to an apparatus that includes an electronic device. The method also includes searching a file for an assistance pertaining to the apparatus and corresponding to the user-selected portion of the manual. The method further includes generating a signal indicative of the assistance pertaining to the apparatus and corresponding to the user-selected portion of the manual, wherein the manual is physically distinct from the apparatus. In an alternative embodiment, the method includes facilitating an electronic display of the assistance using a user interface of the electronic device. The facilitating may include facilitating a projection of a display of the assistance from the electronic device. In another alternative embodiment, the method may include displaying at least two user-selectable portions of the manual. | 09-18-2008 |
20080244398 | Direct Preview of Wizards, Dialogs, and Secondary Dialogs - A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for previewing the user interaction steps of a wizard within a graphical user interface (GUI). User gestures are performed on the wizard's associated menu item or graphical icon to display a non-executable replica of the wizard in a variant visual style. The non-executable replica of the wizard is displayed in a variant visual style to signify that the wizard is in preview mode and that it cannot be executed as an active wizard. Predetermined GUI widgets (e.g., buttons, text boxes, checkmarks, etc.) are disabled and do not respond to user gestures. However, predetermined GUI navigational widgets (e.g., tabs, previous/next buttons, drop-down boxes) are enabled to allow the user to navigate from one wizard user interaction to another. | 10-02-2008 |
20080244399 | CONTEXTUAL SUPPORT CENTER - A method and system to provide contextual support data are described. The method may detect an event related to an object associated with an application and presented to a user in a first portion of an interface of the application. In response to detecting of the event, the method may locate support data related to the object, including using contextual information pertaining to the object and to the user. The method may present, in a second portion of the interface, the located support data related to the object. The detecting of the event may include a user interaction with the interface of the application. The contextual support system may include a user interface module, a detection module, a look-up module, a database and a database server. The support data may also be contextual to a person or an attribute of the person. | 10-02-2008 |
20080244400 | RECIPE REPORT CARD FRAMEWORK AND METHODS THEREOF - A computer-implemented method for performing recipe evaluation is provided. The computer-implemented method includes integrating a plurality of data sources into a single recipe report card framework. The recipe report card framework includes an editor for interacting with the plurality of data sources. The computer-implemented method also includes displaying a plurality of graphical displays. Each graphical display of the plurality of graphical displays is configured to present a signal parameter of a set of signal parameters for at least a substrate. The computer-implemented method further includes providing a plurality of criteria for each of the set of signal parameters. The computer-implemented method yet also includes providing a plurality of ranges for the each of the set of signal parameters. The computer-implemented method yet further includes providing an expert guide, which is configured to provide guidance in analyzing a recipe. | 10-02-2008 |
20080244401 | User interface teaching concepts in an application - Various embodiments provide a wizard integrated as part of an application to assist a user in operating within the application. In one or more embodiments, the wizard comprises an inline portion of the application's user interface and is designed to enable a user to express a desired goal and then present one or more choices that appear to satisfy the user's desired goal. The choices are titled in a manner that obscures or abstracts away more complex choices and concepts with which a user may not be familiar. When the user selects a particular displayed choice, the wizard can present further choices which are progressively narrowed to focus on the user's desired goal, thus directing the user to a suitable feature to accomplish his or her goal and providing just-in-time conceptual information about the feature to enable the user to use that feature. | 10-02-2008 |
20080244402 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processor includes an information processing unit that executes an information process by reference to a setting, a setting unit that executes a provisional selection to select one or more selection items among multiple selection items and a definitive selection for deciding the provisional selection by reference to an operation by a user and determines a setting of the information process by reference to a result of the definitive selection, a determination unit that determines a selection item to be explained by reference to one or more selection item provisionally selected by the setting unit, and an explanation outputting unit that outputs an explanation for the user for the selection item to be explained which is determined by the determination unit. | 10-02-2008 |
20080250316 | MECHANISM TO IMPROVE A USER'S INTERACTION WITH A COMPUTER SYSTEM - An approach for improving a user's interaction with computer system which may include building a context aware user interface by extending a concur task tree (CTT). Although a task model approach may work well in the design time, it does not appear to take consideration of contextual information at runtime. To overcome this limitation, an approach may be used to apply contextual information to the task at runtime. The approach may introduce task activation criteria based on contextual information and apply contextual information to optimize interaction quality. | 10-09-2008 |
20080276170 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND ARRANGING STATUS GADGETS IN A SMALL DISPLAY AREA - A system and method for persistently providing at least one status notification regarding a device component or application on an electronic system or device is provided. A selectable status notification icon (status gadget) is assigned for each of a number of applications and/or components for which status is monitored, each status notification icon reflecting changes in the monitored status. The status gadgets are persistently displayed in a user interface on the display screen of the electronic system or device. A contextual dialog is also displayed when a status gadget is selected. | 11-06-2008 |
20080301558 | Interface, Method, and System for Providing Inline Contextual Help and Support - A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for providing contextually relevant support information. In one embodiment, a server provides a web page over a network that includes one or more help indicators. The web page and the help indicator are shown to a user in a window of a graphical user interface of the client device. When the user selects the help indicator, the support system receives data indicative of user help requests from the client device. In response to receipt of a support request, the support system generates a response based on a current context of the web page. In one embodiment the response is provided to the client device for display over an area in the window of the graphical user interface without obscuring or disrupting content displayed by the web page. | 12-04-2008 |
20090006956 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION - An information display method and apparatus are provided. The information display method includes opening a popup window that displays information regarding a first location of a screen; moving the popup window to a second location if a movement command is input; and displaying information regarding the second location in the popup window. | 01-01-2009 |
20090006957 | Providing Assistance for Editing Markup Document Based on Inferred Grammar - Methods and apparatus are provided for assisting a user who is editing a markup document on a computer. The user is presented with the markup document on a display of the computer for editing and provided with grammatical assistance based on a grammar inferred from current content of the markup document. The grammar may be inferred and updated automatically after the markup document is loaded or edited. The assistance provided may be based on a combination of an inferred grammar and a real grammar. The markup document can be an extensible markup language (XML) document. | 01-01-2009 |
20090055737 | Contextual Collaborative Electronic Annotations - An application having an associated and a graphical user interface is initiated. Thereafter, the widget determines a first state of the application. Once the first state of the application is determined, the widget calls at least one remote repository to retrieve one or more electronic annotations associated with the first state of the application. These electronic annotations are then displayed in connection with the graphical user interface of the application. | 02-26-2009 |
20090055738 | Techniques for Providing Dynamic Help Content for a Command Line Interface - A technique for providing assistance to a user of a system includes receiving a current command entered into a command line interface of the system and determining a current state of a system. Command help for the current command is then generated based on the current state of the system. | 02-26-2009 |
20090055739 | CONTEXT-AWARE ADAPTIVE USER INTERFACE - Technologies, systems, and methods for context-aware adaptation of user interface where monitored context includes ambient environmental and temporal conditions, user state, and the like. For example, when a user has been using an application for a long time, ambient lighting conditions are becoming darker, and the user is inferred to be experiencing increased eye strain and fatigue, the user interface may be adapted by increasing the contrast. Such adaptation may be based on rules, pre-defined or otherwise. The processing of sensor data typically results in context codes and detection of context patterns that may be used to adapt user interface for an optimized user experience. | 02-26-2009 |
20090083627 | Method and System for Providing Information in Virtual Space - In an information providing system | 03-26-2009 |
20090089673 | System and Method for Persisting Hover Help - A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for providing a persistent display of hover assistance elements in a user interface. A user interface (UI) containing hover assistance elements is selected and a persistent hover assistance manager is used to simultaneously display all hover assistance elements in a viewable area of the UI. The hover assistance elements, with their respective hover assistance values, are then persistently displayed proximate to their corresponding UI elements. Hover assistance elements are selectively removed from persistent display and then selectively returned to persistent display. | 04-02-2009 |
20090100337 | HELP OPTION ENHANCEMENT FOR INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE SYSTEMS - A method for providing help within an interactive voice response application can include the step of determining an interactive voice response event corresponding to a help menu request. The event can be classified as a default help request or a user initiated help request. If the event is classified as a default help request, a time for receiving user input can be set to a default value. If, however, the event is classified as a user initiated help request, the time for receiving user input can be set to a value less than the default value. The interactive voice response application can take programmatic action upon expiration of the time for receiving user | 04-16-2009 |
20090132919 | Appending Hover Help to Hover Help for a User Interface - Enabling end users to add their own hover help to extend hover help that is provided in a user interface, without having access to the code of the application. An end user can extend the application-provided hover help information to make it more helpful or tailored to his own needs. The originally-provided hover help is retained, and may be rendered in addition to the user's appended hover help. Or, by specifying that the user-provided hover help is displayed in the same location as the originally-provided hover help, the user-provided hover help can be rendered such that the originally-provided hover help is at least partially obscured. | 05-21-2009 |
20090132920 | Community-based software application help system - A framework for enabling a community of users to share help information about an application program. The framework includes a mechanism for users to generate and share help information and a mechanism for users to access help information created by other users. To generate help information, tools may be incorporated into an application to enable users to capture information about the application as they are performing functions. Those tools capture as a video clip a representation of screen displays created by the application as the user interacts with the application to perform a function about which help information is to be generated. Along with the scenes captured in the video clip, application context information and explanatory material, such as an audio narration, can be captured. The mechanism to access help information includes a server to which video clips can be posted and catalogued, allowing identification of clips in response to user input describing a required help topic. | 05-21-2009 |
20090150779 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING HELP INFORMATION - A method of intelligently displaying help information that is easy for a user to use on a computer or similar electronic device is provided by the invention. An application window is displayed on a display device. A computer includes help information consisting of a plurality of records associated with each other in sequence of display including a first record and a second record displayed subsequent to the first record, as a database. Subsequently, a help window for displaying help information is displayed on the display device to display help information included in the first record. Event information related to event input by an input device with respect to the application window is acquired and help information included in the second record is displayed on the help window. A user can obtain help information necessary for subsequent operation from the help window. | 06-11-2009 |
20090158152 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING CONTEXT SENSITIVE HELP FOR A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE - The subject application is directed to a system and method for generating context sensitive help for a graphical user interface. Display data corresponding to a plurality of indicia is first generated on an associated display, each indicia corresponding to a functionality of an associated information processing device. Selection data is then received corresponding to a selected indicia from those displayed. A touch down signal is then received corresponding to a tactile exertion of positive physical pressure. Duration data representing the duration of the exerted positive physical pressure is then received. A display of data associated with the functionality of the information processing device is subsequently triggered in accordance with the selected indicia corresponding to the received selection data and the received duration data. | 06-18-2009 |
20090158153 | Method, system, and computer program product for generating a front end graphical user interface for a plurality of text based commands - A method, computer program product, and system are disclosed for generating a graphical user interface (GUI) for a plurality of text based commands, in which environment mapping definitions may link generic GUI components with predefined command structures. The plurality of text based commands may be command-line interface (CLI) commands. The environment mapping definitions may be applied to a command specification defining characteristics of the plurality of text based commands in a standard format in order to build a GUI from generic GUI components. The command specification may be generated by providing an interpretation reference defining CLI conventions and parsing a command description to extract the command specification with reference to the interpretation reference. | 06-18-2009 |
20090172541 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING DYNAMIC CONTEXT ASSIST FOR A COMMAND LINE INTERFACE - A method, system, and computer program product for providing dynamic context assistance to a user of a system, such as a storage system. One or more current command line interface (CLI) entries that are entered in a CLI of the system are received and a current state of the system is determined. Dynamic context assistance is then generated for one or more current CLI entries based on entered values of the one or more CLI entries. In this regard, the dynamic context assistance can be generated and displayed in a text or graphical form when one or more dynamic context assist keys are entered in the CLI in conjunction with the current CLI entry. | 07-02-2009 |
20090183072 | EMBEDDED USER ASSISTANCE FOR SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS - A system for providing user assistance receives a request for user assistance from a component on a user interface. The component includes a help identifier, and the request is generated by a type of user selection, such as the clicking of an icon. The system determines a level of user assistance based on the type of selection and retrieves user assistance content based on the help identifier and the determined level of user assistance. In one embodiment, the user interface includes three levels of user assistance. | 07-16-2009 |
20090199097 | Context Sensitive Help - Systems and methods for providing context sensitive help on an electronic device. The system include a processor, an application attributes discovery module which provides one or more attributes associated with an application running on the electronic device, a system state discovery module which provides system information associated with components of the electronic device, a help infrastructure module which uses the system information and application attributes to determine a help context at the time a user invokes a request for help, a help context mapping module which includes one or more help contexts including a context node that best matches the system state information and which contains one or more help topic identifiers that are mapped to help topics, a help topic collection module that provides one or more help topics corresponding to the help topic identifiers and a help viewer that displays the help topics. | 08-06-2009 |
20090235168 | USER MEDIATED EMBEDDED HELP SYSTEM - An embedded help system for a software application; said facility providing embedded help data to a user in response to a help query from said user; said embedded help data comprising base embedded help data and user added embedded help data; said embedded help data pertinent to the operation of said software application. | 09-17-2009 |
20090249204 | FILE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MOBILE TERMINAL, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING MOBILE TERMINAL PROGRAM - A file management system includes a file server with a file storage device storing a file associated with an update date and time of the file and a mobile terminal with a file information output device to output information of the file, wherein the mobile terminal comprises a file obtaining device that obtains the file and the update date and time, and an obtained list information creation device that creates obtained list information associating the file identification information with the update date and time of the file, and an update information output device in the file server outputs update information indicating the file has been updated, if the update date and time about the file is less recent than the update date and time stored in the file storage device, and an update display control device in the mobile terminal displays a message informing the file has been updated if the update information is received. | 10-01-2009 |
20090254822 | HI-EFFICIENCY WIZARD FRAMEWORK SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method and computer program product for defining a first data request for presentation within a wizard. The first data request solicits a first response from a user of the wizard. At least a second data request is defined for presentation within the wizard after receipt of the first response from the user. The at least a second data request solicits at least a second response from the user of the wizard. A computing device is defined as the intended recipient of the first response and the at least a second response. The first response and the at least a second response are concurrently provided to the computing device. | 10-08-2009 |
20090265630 | DEVICE FOR ESTIMATING USER OPERATION INTENTION AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME - There is provided an apparatus which provides manipulation assistance, even in the case where a user trying to executing a certain function has performed a wrong manipulation, by inferring the function which the user originally wanted to execute. | 10-22-2009 |
20090271704 | DISPLAYING HELP SENSITIVE AREAS OF A COMPUTER APPLICATION - A window of a computer application on a display device is controlled through associating a pop-up window with the screen window of the computer application, wherein the computer application provides more than one screen window and a pop-up window is associated with each screen window of the computer application, and at least one mouse-sensitive area is defined for each screen window of the computer application, such that a mouse click on a mouse-sensitive area causes the appropriate pop-up window to be displayed on the display device. | 10-29-2009 |
20090276705 | SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE AND PROCESS FOR ASSESSING MULTI-PERSPECTIVE MULTI-CONTEXT ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR - A multi-perspective context sensitive behavior assessment system includes an adaptive behavior model builder establishing a real-time reference model that captures intention of motion behavior. It operates by modeling outputs of multiple user defined scoring functions with respect to multiple references of application specific target areas of interest. The target areas have criticality values representing a user's preference regarding the target areas with respect to one another. The outputs of the scoring functions are multiplied by the critically values to form high level sequences of representation that are communicated to the user. | 11-05-2009 |
20090276706 | Method for automating troubleshooting flowcharts - A troubleshooting flowchart is automated by taking relevant information from the flowchart and entering it into a control file or database. A graphical user development tool is provided so a flowchart can be automated by someone not skilled in programming. Whenever possible the troubleshooting device queries the device under test, reads the response and determines the next troubleshooting step based on the response. If the troubleshooting step requires the user to provide an answer, the troubleshooting device displays a question, and a means to input the answer. Objects such as text, audio, video or other files are displayed to make the meaning of the question clearer. Also a troubleshooting step could be a procedure that the user needs to perform. Best troubleshooting practices can be implemented by unskilled users using this troubleshooting device. | 11-05-2009 |
20090288003 | Cost effective system and method for monitoring machinery units - The present software and hardware system provides monitoring and adaptive operator communication and software for a plurality of machinery units ( | 11-19-2009 |
20090300494 | USER ASSISTANCE PANEL - A system for providing user assistance receives a request for help content for a first component of a plurality of components displayed on a user interface page. The system generates a user assistance panel that is displayed simultaneously with the user interface page without substantially obscuring the user interface page. The user assistance panel includes the help content for the first component and a heading for a second component of the plurality of components that has associated help content. | 12-03-2009 |
20090300495 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN ADAPTIVE WIZARD UTILITY FOR GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES - System and method for implementing an adaptive wizard utility for a graphical user interface (“GUI”) are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises, responsive to presentation of a page of the wizard utility to a user, monitoring user activity in connection with the page; analyzing the user activity to determine a current performance designation of the user; and modifying at least one page of the wizard utility based on the current performance designation of the user. | 12-03-2009 |
20090319896 | VISUAL INDICATORS ASSOCIATED WITH A MEDIA PRESENTATION SYSTEM - Visual indicators associated with a media presentation system are described. An example apparatus includes a media presentation system in which one or more events may occur; an event controller to detect an event that causes the media presentation system to generate a sound to inform a user of a condition and to determine if the user is able to audibly receive the sound; and a visual indicator corresponding to the condition to be displayed in response to a determination that the user is unable to audibly receive the sound. | 12-24-2009 |
20100005391 | ACCESS CONTROL APPARATUS, ACCESS CONTROL METHOD, AND ACCESS CONTROL PROGRAM - Additional information indicating photographic conditions for a received image signal is compared with additional information indicating photographic conditions for an access target image signal. If the both conditions satisfy a predetermined relationship, an access to the access target image signal is permitted. | 01-07-2010 |
20100017711 | OPERATION GUIDANCE DISPLAY APPARATUS - Provided is an operation guidance display apparatus which enables improvement of an operability for a user. When an input device ( | 01-21-2010 |
20100037136 | Context-Aware Non-Linear Graphic Editing - A graphical editor displays graphical representations of underlying data items in a distribution of information-bearing states across a bounded region of a display. One or more of the data items are selected as belonging to a context of a user task or operation. The information-bearing states are redistributed in the bounded region of the display so that an amount of information sufficient to the task is provided through the graphical representations of the data items in the context and any space in the bounded region of the display needed to display such information is acquired by a decrease in the amount of information provided by the data items outside the context. | 02-11-2010 |
20100037137 | INFORMATION-SELECTION ASSIST SYSTEM, INFORMATION-SELECTION ASSIST METHOD AND PROGRAM - Information selected by a user and number of selection times thereof are registered in pair in a selection-candidate list storage section ( | 02-11-2010 |
20100050079 | CONTEXT DRIVEN HELP FUNCTION - Disclosed are methods and systems for generating dynamic context aware help for operations supported by at least one reporting system. The methods and systems relate to receiving a help request for an operation from a client computer including at least one report file, analyzing the at least one report file to generate context data, dynamically generating help data according to the context data and the operation and sending the generated help data to the client computer. | 02-25-2010 |
20100058184 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DEPLOYING A NAVIGATION TOOL ASSOCIATED WITH A CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT APPROACH FOR AN ENTERPRISE - A computer-based method for accessing the various individual tools from multiple continuous improvement programs from a single user interface is described. The method includes generating a user interface with a plurality of selectable icons, each icon corresponding to a predefined continuous improvement (CI) cycle step, providing, upon receiving a user selection of one of the CI cycle steps, user selectable process steps to the user interface, providing, upon receiving a user selection of one of the process steps, user selectable tool choices to the user interface, and generating, upon receiving a user selection of one of the tool choices, at least one interactive user interface that provides at least one of an example of the tool choice and instructions relating to the use of the tool choice. | 03-04-2010 |
20100058185 | DYNAMIC HINTS FOR GUI CONTROL MODES CONTINGENT UPON CONTEXT-DEFINED CONDITIONS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for assisting a user in a GUI. In an embodiment of the invention method for assisting a user in a graphical user interface (GUI) can include detecting a proximity event in connection with a GUI control of an application in a mode contingent upon a context-defined condition within the application, retrieving an explanation from memory for the mode of the GUI control and contingency of the context-defined condition, and rendering the explanation in association with the mode of the GUI control and the contingency of the context-defined condition. | 03-04-2010 |
20100107075 | System and method for content customization based on emotional state of the user - A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to present a script of content comprising one or more content items to a user online, wherein such content is not only relevant to addressing a problem submitted by the user, but is also customized and tailored to the specific needs and preferences of the user based on the user's profile and/or emotional state at the time. Such an approach enables a personal “agent” that understands the user's emotional state, specific needs and interests by maintaining a personal profile and history of the user. Based on in-depth personal knowledge and understanding, the agent is capable of identifying, retrieving, customizing, and presenting to the user a unique experience that distinguishes it from the experiences of any other users in the general public. | 04-29-2010 |
20100115407 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND DISPLAYING METHOD THEREOF - A method of displaying in a mobile terminal includes displaying a map on a display unit, displaying at least one icon on the map, the at least one icon being linked to a certain area of the displayed map, receiving a signal for changing a scale of the map, changing the scale of the map in response to the signal and displaying the map according to the changed scale, displaying the at least one icon differently according to the changed scale of the map, wherein the at least one icon is updated when map data corresponding to the certain area is changed, the map data comprising first map data corresponding to a first time point and second map data corresponding to a second time point, and displaying a first icon corresponding to the first map data and a second icon corresponding to the second map data differently to indicate a change of the map data between the first time point and the second time point. | 05-06-2010 |
20100122164 | CONTEXTUAL PREDICTION OF USER WORDS AND USER ACTIONS - The invention concerns user entry of information into a system with an input device. A scheme is provided in which an entire word that a user wants to enter is predicted after the user enters a specific symbol, such as a space character. If the user presses an ambiguous key thereafter, rather than accept the prediction, the selection list is reordered. For example, a user enters the phrase “Lets run to school. Better yet, lets drive to “.””” After the user presses the space, after first entering the second occurrence of the word “to,” the system predicts that the user is going to enter the word “school” based on the context in which the user has entered that word in the past. Should the user enter an ambiguous key after the space, then a word list which contains the word “school” is reordered and other options are made available to the user. The invention can also make predictions on context, such as the person to whom the message is sent, the person writing the message, the day of the week, the time of the week, etc. Other embodiments of the invention contemplate anticipation of user actions, as well as words, such as a user action in connection with menu items, or a user action in connection with form filling. | 05-13-2010 |
20100146390 | Obtaining user assestance - An apparatus, device, method, computer program product, and system that searches a plurality of end user assistances respectively corresponding to a plurality of items for an end user assistance correlating with a user-selected item. | 06-10-2010 |
20100218095 | Obtaining user assistance - An apparatus, device, method, computer program product, and system that searches a plurality of end user assistances respectively corresponding to a plurality of items for an end user assistance correlating with a user-selected item. | 08-26-2010 |
20100223549 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ENTERTAINMENT DEVICES USING A DISPLAY - A method is disclosed for controlling an electronic device, the method including but not limited to electronically identifying a first remote control device for a first electronic device at a multimedia processor end user device; accessing specification data for the first remote control device for determining functions available on the first remote control device; displaying an image of a second remote control on the display for the multimedia processor end user device; mapping a set of remote control functions available on the first remote control device to a set of function keys on the second remote control display; and highlighting a function key on the image of the second remote control to which a function performed by a selected function key on the first remote control is mapped. A system and computer program product are disclosed for performing the method. | 09-02-2010 |
20100223550 | APPRATUS, PROGRAM AND METHOD FOR ASSISTING A USER IN UNDERSTANDING CONTENT - An assisting apparatus, method and computer program that assists a user in understanding content. The assisting apparatus includes a history storing unit that stores a history of assistance settings set up by the user for each of a plurality of pieces of content already accessed by the user, a retrieval unit that, when the user accesses content, retrieves the history of assistance settings stored in the history storing unit in association with the accessed content, and a setting-up unit that sets up one of assisting functions that assists the user in understanding the accessed content, on the basis of the history of assistance settings retrieved by the retrieval unit. | 09-02-2010 |
20100235738 | PRODUCT LIMITATIONS ADVISORY SYSTEM - A system that automatically prompts a computer user about a known limitation of a product component, such as a software component. Generally, there is contemplated herein a method including providing a physical computing device, running software in the physical computing device, detecting whether the software has a known limitation, and automatically providing an advisory responsive to detecting a known software limitation. | 09-16-2010 |
20100293461 | HELP INFORMATION FOR LINKS IN A MASHUP PAGE - A mashup page presents link help information for logical links that pass context between widgets on the mashup page. | 11-18-2010 |
20100325540 | SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TOOL FOR PROVIDING USER CONTEXT INFORMATION TO IMPROVE MESSAGE QUALITY AT DEVELOPMENT TIME - A message occurrence can be detected when a software application runs on a computing device. The message occurrence can be an occurrence where a text containing message is presented upon a user interface of the software application or a log associated with the software application is updated with a text containing message. A user context for the message occurrence can be determined. The user context can include a user sequence and an execution path. Message occurrence information can be conveyed to a message context catalog. Within the message context catalog, the message occurrence information can be indexed against unique message identifiers. Message occurrence information from the message context catalog can be presented in a computer's user interface when a message uniquely identified by the message identifier is presented in the user interface. The user interface can permit a user to edit text of messages. | 12-23-2010 |
20100325541 | GUIDANCE INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE AND GUIDANCE INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM - An MFP sequentially displays a plurality of operation screens on a display panel by switching, and receives a user operation on each operation screen. The user operation is performed for the switching or execution of a function, and the operation screens include screens customized by a user. A guidance information providing device includes: an information storage part storing switching information pieces in correspondence with the customized screens; a route generator that generates route information with reference to the stored switching information pieces, the generated route information indicating a display order of customized screens to be sequentially displayed between a current customized screen and a desired customized screen; a controller that selects, from among the stored switching information pieces, a switching information piece indicating switching from the current customized screen to a next customized screen to be displayed according to the display order indicated by the generated route information; a guidance generator that generates guidance information indicating an operation method for the user to switch the current customized screen to the next customized screen; and a communicator that outputs the generated guidance information. | 12-23-2010 |
20110041056 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH TOUCH-SENSITIVE DISPLAY AND METHOD OF FACILITATING INPUT AT THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method includes receiving a character in response to a touch on a touch-sensitive display, adding the character to a character string, identifying, from stored data, objects that at least partially match the character string, and determining a next character of at least one of the objects identified, yielding a set of next characters. | 02-17-2011 |
20110041057 | COMPUTER SELF-SUPPORT MANAGEMENT - A computer based technique for providing a list of selectable computer solutions in a self-support environment. The technique includes sending a computer solution to the client computer in response to a request from the client computer for the computer solution from the list. The computer solution includes at least an automated solution. | 02-17-2011 |
20110047462 | DISPLAY-INDEPENDENT COMPUTERIZED GUIDANCE - A method for display-independent execution of a computerized guidance script, the method comprising capturing a screenshot of a graphical user interface (GUI) of a computerized application, analyzing the screenshot for matching a control of the screenshot with a control of the guidance script, and executing the guidance script, based on the matching, to operate the computerized application. Additionally, a display-independent computerized guidance engine, comprising a screenshot analysis engine and a guidance script execution engine. | 02-24-2011 |
20110060989 | HELP FILE GENERATING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method of generating a help file used commonly in different models of image forming apparatuses includes reading a setting value indicating a function provided by one of the image forming apparatuses, setting a field value of a parameter corresponding to the read setting value, and configuring a help message based on the set field value of the parameter. A system to generate a help message includes a configuration module to determine identification information regarding each of a plurality of functions of an object included in one of software versions and characteristic data regarding the software version, and a universal help file including function descriptions for all of the software versions provided in a computer, receiving the identification information and the characteristic data, and generating the help message regarding the object using the function descriptions according to the identification information and the characteristic data. The function descriptions include a section filled with the characteristic data. | 03-10-2011 |
20110066939 | TROUBLESHOOTING SUPPORT METHOD, AND TROUBLESHOOTING SUPPORT APPARATUS - When a problem occurs in a computer system, the following processing is performed. That is, a troubleshooting procedure that includes, at least, operation content and input request for system information, presented to an operator, and in which command to acquire system information related to the input request from the information source of the system information are assigned to the input request, is referenced. Furthermore, in accordance with the command, system information is collected from an information source where system information exists. Then, after those input request for system information have been removed from the troubleshooting procedure, the resultant troubleshooting procedure is presented to the operator. Thus, the workload of the operator in the troubleshooting operation can be significantly reduced, and the time until the operation is completed is shortened, making rapid troubleshooting possible. | 03-17-2011 |
20110072346 | CONTEXT-BASED SMART TAGS - A context-based action determiner is configured to facilitate the application of context-based smart tags. The context-based action determiner includes a type determining module configured to determine a type of a context object based on a context in which the context object is being used. The context-based action determiner also includes an action determining module configured to determine one or more context-specific actions that may be performed for the context object based on the type of the context object and to provide the context-specific actions to a user. The context-based action determiner further includes a selection receiving module configured to receive a selection from the user of a context-specific action to be performed and an action performing module configured to perform the selected context-specific action. The type of the context object and the action to be performed are determined based on a smart tag configuration. | 03-24-2011 |
20110078569 | VALUE HELP USER INTERFACE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computer-implemented method providing value help user interface for an underlying application where a request for field names associated with at least one value help backend system is sent by a server. The server may receive the field names from the backend system and display the field names in a user interface and provide filter criteria for each field for the user. The user may enter the search and filter criteria and the user interface may be configured to receive the filter criteria from the user. The search request may be sent to a value help service. The value help service may prompt the back end system to run a search and in turn receive results from the back end system that includes data and metadata. The metadata may describe the format of the search results. The data may be passed according to the metadata and a search results may be generated for the user. The user may make a selection from the search results and the selected data my be delivered to an underlying application. | 03-31-2011 |
20110119582 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RENDERING MULTIPLE HOSPITALITY SERVICES TO A USER VIA A VIRTUAL PLATFORM FIELD - A method and system for rendering multiple hospitality services to a user via a virtual platform are provided. The method includes providing the virtual platform. The virtual platform includes one or more virtual guides in an electronic device. Further, the method includes establishing a connection with a server by the user using the virtual platform to receive the hospitality services via the virtual guides. The method also includes interacting with the user by the virtual guides to receive one or more requests based on the connection and rendering the hospitality services to the user by the virtual guides based on the requests. The system includes an electronic device. The electronic device includes the virtual platform comprising one or more virtual guides to render the hospitality services by interacting with the user. The system also includes a server in communication with the electronic device. | 05-19-2011 |
20110131491 | DYNAMIC HELP INFORMATION - Dynamic help information is provided by receiving unit, configured to receive at least one operation of a user and to obtain the user's operation history, where the operation history includes at least one operation; a determining unit, configured to determine the corresponding help information according to the user's operation history; and an information obtaining unit, configured to obtain said corresponding help information. Assistance in providing help information is also provided, comprising: an operation capturing unit, configured to capture and send at least one operation of a user; and an information displaying unit, configured to receive and display the help information corresponding to the user's operation history, where the operation history includes at least one operation. With the apparatuses and method of this invention, the pertinent help information can be dynamically provided for users according to user's operation history. | 06-02-2011 |
20110145707 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR ASSISTING A USER IN APPLYING A BUSINESS PROCESS PATTERN - A computer-implemented method for assisting a user in applying a business process pattern. In some embodiments, the computer-implemented method includes providing a graphical user interface (GUI) adapted for displaying a first representation of a business process and for allowing user editing of the business process. The computer-implemented method also includes receiving a user selection of a fragment of the business process as displayed in the first representation. In some embodiments, the computer-implemented method includes calling a second representation of the business process, the second representation including a hierarchy of fragments of business process, and checking whether the fragment selected by the user corresponds to one of the fragments of the second representation. The computer-implemented method may also include instantiating a business process pattern using the selected fragment if the fragment selected corresponds. The selected fragment is re-usable within the business process pattern. | 06-16-2011 |
20110161812 | Searchable Menu system via Keyword Search - Displaying a visual cue is disclosed. One or more search criteria is/are received. One or more objects that are associated with a user interface is/are searched based at least in part on the one or more search criteria to obtain a search result. A sequence of one or more choices associated with accessing the search result is/are obtained. A visual cue is displayed for at least a portion of the sequence of one or more choices. | 06-30-2011 |
20110231758 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AUTOMATED SOFTWARE WORKFLOWS FOR BIOLOGICAL TESTING - The workflow application integrates with a research software application associated with a laboratory instrument to provide a user with step-by-step instructions on how to follow the workflow steps of a laboratory experiment. The instructions are dynamically tailored, according to the nature of the workflow, the samples being experimented upon and/or the operating states of the instrument and/or the research software application. The workflow application significantly reduces the learning curve to operate sophisticated laboratory instruments. In a genetic testing instrument the workflow application can prescribe the need for control samples and can optimize the layout of samples within the instrument's sample receiving plate or fixture. | 09-22-2011 |
20110246880 | INTERACTIVE APPLICATION ASSISTANCE, SUCH AS FOR WEB APPLICATIONS - An application assistance system is described herein that provides an on-demand canonical user interface that can quickly allow a user to learn the actions exposed by an application, such as a web site. The application assistance system is a pattern and method for guiding the user of a site/application through a set of possible actions on a page by providing a well-known invocation of hints. These hints show the actions/tasks that a user can take on a page by visually spotlighting a specific area of the page and providing a tooltip or pop-up dialog that describes the action/task the user is trying to complete while preserving the data the user has already entered. The system also provides a task pane that supports randomly accessing various steps of a task the system is explaining. Thus, the system makes it much easier for a user to learn to use an application. | 10-06-2011 |
20110246881 | TRANSLATING TEXT TO, MERGING, AND OPTIMIZING GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE TASKS - A system and method that enables a plurality of lay users to collaborate on automating computer tasks is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system automatically performs these tasks, rather than just documenting how to perform them. The system allows a database of solutions to be built for every important computer task. A key characteristic of this system is that users contribute to this database by simply performing the task. The system records the graphical user interface (GUI) actions as the user performs the task. It aggregates GUI traces from multiple users into a canonical sequence of GUI actions parameterized by user-environment that will successfully accomplish the task on a variety of different configurations. A classifier is used to predict which steps are likely to be misinterpreted and requests human intervention to properly perform them. This process can be done iteratively until the translation is believed to be correct. | 10-06-2011 |
20110258544 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUGGESTING AUTOMATED ASSISTANTS BASED ON A SIMILARITY VECTOR IN A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR MANAGING COMMUNICATION SESSIONS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for suggesting and inserting automated assistants in a graphical user interface for managing communication sessions. A system for suggesting an automated assistant generates a first vector describing a current context of a current communication session, and generates a comparison of the first vector and a second vector associated with a past context of an automated assistant in a past communication session. Then, if the comparison exceeds a similarity threshold, the system suggests the automated assistant to at least one user in the current communication session. Optionally, the system can predictively insert the automated assistant in a communication session if the comparison exceeds a similarity threshold. The graphical user interface for managing communication sessions displays automated assistants in a same manner as human participants. | 10-20-2011 |
20110271185 | PROVIDING A CONTEXT-AWARE HELP CONTENT USING A TRANSPARENT OVERLAY ON A TOUCH SENSITIVE SCREEN - Objects shown on a display interface can be collected for a running application. Identifications (IDs) representing the objects can also be collected. A determination can be made concerning whether there are object identifications of objects with help contents associated. A transparent layer can be displayed on the display interface. All the objects associated with help contents of the layer can be visually indicated in the transparent layer. The visual indicators can indicate that help is available for a corresponding object. When no help is available, no visual indicator is shown in the transparent layer proximate to corresponding object. | 11-03-2011 |
20110296304 | Adaptive Gesture Tutorial - A system and a method are disclosed for determining and presenting a gesture tutorial comprising audio and/or video presentation on a gesture that is not frequently used by the user. To determine a tutorial, the system determines the user's gesture repertoire comprising information about gestures already learned by the user, e.g., gestures detected a pre-determined number of times on the user's computing device or another computing device associated with the user. The system determines a gesture associated with the user's computing device that is not represented in the gesture repertoire. The system determines a tutorial for the determined gesture and transmits the determined tutorial for presentation to the user. | 12-01-2011 |
20110307780 | CLOUD-BASED APPLICATION HELP - A cloud help system is described herein that is a confederation of both internet and product help content that gives the user of a software application a rich web-based user interface for searching the internet in conjunction with and in the context of the software application. An application developer associates identifiers with various features and areas within an application. Upon detecting a user request for product help, the system receives the identifier and identifies instructional material related to the received identifier. The instructional material combines traditional local and online help information with dynamic content from an online data source. The online data source includes an association between each identifier and one or more searches for online content. An administrator can update the online searches over time so that new material can be incorporated. | 12-15-2011 |
20110314375 | Personal Assistant for Task Utilization - An electronic personal assistant that uses task information to obtain task performance assistance and help content is provided. Tasks from an electronic tasks application may be utilized by the personal assistant application to search a variety of information sources for task performance functionality and help content related to the tasks. The personal assistant may provide functionality to help a user actually perform a given task. Alternatively, once help content is obtained, a new task may be generated or the related task may be modified to provide the help content or to provide a link to the help content. The personal assistant application may provide the help content in a separate user interface or cause an application from which the help content is obtained to be launched. | 12-22-2011 |
20110320943 | Process and Apparatus for Computer Training - An adaptive and interactive training system and method is provided. The system provides training content to a user of an application program based upon a variety of factors. The system selects the training content based upon the user's individualized needs vis-à-vis an application program. The system may customize the training sent to the user by evaluating the user's actual interaction with the application program, the user's personal profile and the group profile of groups to which the user belongs. | 12-29-2011 |
20120017148 | Navigating Between A Map Dialog And Button Controls Displayed Outside The Map - A method of interacting with a map displayed on a mobile device entails displaying a map in a map dialog on a display of the mobile device, displaying control buttons on the display but outside the map dialog, and receiving user input to switch between a map manipulation mode, where user input manipulates the map, and a control button mode, where user input enables navigation between the control buttons. In one implementation, switching between the two modes permits the same user interface element to be used for navigation/manipulation of the map and of the control buttons, depending on which mode is activated. In one implementation, clicking the track pad toggles between the map manipulation mode and the control button mode. | 01-19-2012 |
20120084648 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED END-USER SUPPORT - A system and method for displaying content in a browser window associated with an end-user is described. In one implementation, data that includes links is received from a content provider, each of the links is identified and encoded, and the received data along with the links are displayed in the end-user's browser window. | 04-05-2012 |
20120110449 | Method And System For Guiding User Selection Of A Replacement Watercraft Propeller - A computer implemented system automatically launches a video to assist a computer user in navigating through a set of menus on a graphical user interface (GUI) without separately requiring the computer user to select a link to a video file or launch a software program designed to playback the video. The system executes a two-phase process for assisting the computer user in determining a replacement part for an OEM part. In the first phase, the system selectively presents a series of menus to the computer user to allow the computer user to identify the OEM part. A video is automatically played during the first phase of the process to assist the user in completing the first series of menus. After the computer user has completed the first menus, the system launches a second set of menus and begins playing a video to assist the computer user in determining options for the replacement part. | 05-03-2012 |
20120110450 | DYNAMIC HELP USER INTERFACE CONTROL WITH SECURED CUSTOMIZATION - A help interface is generated to present static help content and customized help content for an application. Help content data is accessed to define the static help content and a control command to support incorporation of the customized help content. The control command is implemented to determine a configuration of the application, and a user context is determined based on a user characteristic and the application configuration. The customized help content is then resolved based on the control command and the user context. In some cases, a help system may include a help viewer module or program in communication with a computer-readable memory storing the help content data. The help viewer may then render the help interface based on the static help content and customized help content resolved from the control command, the application configuration, and other aspects of the user context in which it is presented. | 05-03-2012 |
20120166945 | Dynamic Help Content Presentation Methods and Systems - An exemplary method includes a dynamic help content presentation system detecting a user input command provided by a user, the user input command requesting help with content being presented by a media content access subsystem, identifying, in response to the user input command, a context of the content being presented by the media content access subsystem, and automatically presenting help content associated with the identified context by way of a mobile device while the content is being presented by the media content access subsystem. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166946 | DYNAMIC HANDLING OF INSTRUCTIONAL FEEDBACK ELEMENTS BASED ON USAGE STATISTICS - Historical data representative of past interactions of a user of a computer application with a user interface screen of the computer application can be retained, for example for later analysis to determine whether to present one or more instructional feedback elements associated with the user interface screen or with a user interface element within the user interface screen. Upon detecting a current navigation of the user to the user interface screen, a determination can be made whether to present an instructional feedback element. The instructional feedback element can be presented if the historical data indicate at least one factor suggestive of a need by the user for assistance with the user interface screen or with the user interface element within the user interface screen. The instructional feedback element can be hidden if the historical data do not indicate any of the at least one factors. Computer program products, systems, and methods having similar features are also described. | 06-28-2012 |
20120210215 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING NETWORKED ASSISTANCE AND FEEDBACK CONTROL FOR CONSUMER ELECTRONIC DEVICES - A computer-implemented method, system, and apparatus for providing networked assistance and feedback control for consumer electronic devices are disclosed. The system and method in an example embodiment include: gathering user behavior and feedback information collected on a user platform via a data network; processing the user behavior and feedback information, by using a processor, to infer a problem encountered by a user on the user platform in operating a consumer electronic (CE) device of the user platform; activating a user interface on the user platform to offer the user assistance in resolving the problem; and recording the problem as a design hint related to a potential design change corresponding to the CE device. | 08-16-2012 |
20120260165 | RECOMMENDING CONTENT - A method for recommending content items to a user is provided. It includes: (i) receiving one of at least an acceptance input and a rejection input from a user in relation to content presented to the user; (ii) in response to an acceptance input, rendering the presented content, or in response to a rejection input, selecting fresh content for presentation; and, (iii) repeating steps (i) and (ii) until a acceptance input is received. Content is selected in dependence on a associated probability associated with that content. The probability is increased in response to an acceptance input, the increase being determined in part on a measure of a predicted reduction in user satisfaction that would be associated with an additional rejection input. | 10-11-2012 |
20130007613 | SYSTEM TO OVERLAY APPLICATION HELP ON A MOBILE DEVICE - A method, system, and computer program product for displaying help information on a mobile device is provided. The method can include receiving from a mobile device an image of a GUI for a computing application displayed in a separate computer. The method additionally can include determining from the image a subject portion of the computing application and retrieving help information from the computing application corresponding to the subject portion of the computing application. Finally, the method can include returning the help information to the mobile device for display in the mobile device. | 01-03-2013 |
20130047082 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING AND EDITING VIDEO CONTENT ON MOBILE DEVICES - Computer-implemented methods, systems, and programs are provided for creating and editing video content on mobile devices. | 02-21-2013 |
20130080892 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, GUI MANIPULATION ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing device ( | 03-28-2013 |
20130086473 | CENTRAL ACCESS LAUNCH CENTER FOR WEB BASED SCENARIOS - A computer system includes instructions recorded on a computer-readable medium and that are executable by at least one processor. The system includes a message generation module configured to generate and send an electronic message containing a selectable link, the selectable link being unique to an identified prospective customer and to enable access to a remotely hosted, on-demand computer application. The system includes an interface module configured to present an interface to the identified prospective customer in response to receiving a selection of the selectable link contained in the electronic message, where the interface includes an information area and a selection area having one or more selectable uniform resource locators (URLs), where each of the URLs points to a demonstration scenario in the on-demand computer application and each of the URLs is a same URL for each different identified prospective customer. | 04-04-2013 |
20130097498 | EMBEDDING NON-BLOCKING HELP COMPONENTS IN A DISPLAY PAGE USING DISCOVERY DRAWER FEATURE CUES - A method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium to provide trigger-sensitive application help content to a user using a digital application. The method commences upon receiving an input application user interface, the input application user interface being encoded for display within a digital application context (e.g. on a computer screen or on a mobile device). Then, recoding the input application user interface to produce an output application user interface comprising one or more expandable screen devices added to the input application user interface. The user's progress (or lack thereof) is detected based on the user's interaction with the output application user interface page (e.g. on a computer screen or on a mobile device). At least one aspect of the method includes executing or otherwise interacting with a display protocol, the display protocol comprising detecting a trigger event, and revealing the expandable screen device to display an expanded screen device. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097499 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING PROCESS GUIDANCE - A context-sensitive process guidance system provides process guidance based on context data from a system used in performing the process. The system may be a work item tracking system or similar project management tool. Process guidance may provide information to a user performing actions related to a process. Context data may be derived from various sources, including the state of an application at the time of the request for process guidance, the user making the request and the role assigned to that user in the process, or the data displayed for the user who made the request. The context-sensitive process guidance system may display context-sensitive process guidance content and provide links to related process guidance content based on the context data. | 04-18-2013 |
20130111344 | HELP CREATION SUPPORT APPARATUS, HELP CREATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING HELP CREATION PROGRAM | 05-02-2013 |
20130117668 | PRESENTATION OF MULTIPLE SOURCES OF APPLICATION GUIDANCE INFORMATION - A product guidance system is described herein that provides consistent methods and processes to aggregate product guidance from different online (and potentially local) sources, to ensure that the guidance aggregation is done with proper quality criteria (e.g., content/author reputation), to define how guidance is aggregated and presented appropriately for the context (e.g., a novice user may see different UI experience and different content than an advanced user), and to specify how the guidance is delivered within the product surface itself. The system defines a consistent information asset type meta-model, applies a semantic approach and algorithms to aggregate guidance content from varying sources and deliver through consistent interfaces, and provides an asset and user interface composition model to present the retrieved information following flexible categorization and navigation schemes. Thus, the product guidance system helps product teams deliver the right information, within the right context, and within the product surface. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117669 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING USE AND OPERATION OF A FAMILY OF DIFFERENT TREATMENT DEVICES - A system for controlling a treatment device generates a graphical interface that visually prompts a user in a step-wise fashion to use the treatment device to perform a process of forming a pattern of lesions that extends both circumferentially and axially in different levels in a body region. The graphical interface displays for the user a visual record of the progress of the process from start to finish and guides the user so that so that individual lesions desired within a given level are all formed, and that a given level of lesions is not skipped. | 05-09-2013 |
20130132834 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE CAPABLE OF GENERATING LEARNING INTERFACE BASED ON USER EXPERIENCE - An electronic device includes an input unit, a storage unit to store a database that defines several menu item groups. Each menu item group includes several menu items that are associated with each other. A processor starts a learning mode in response to a user input from the input unit, and in the learning mode, the processor receives an user input relating to one or more menu items, determines one or more menu item groups based on the user input, and generates a learning menu based on the one or more menu item groups. | 05-23-2013 |
20130159851 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING HELP CONTENT TO USERS - The various embodiments herein disclose a method of providing help content to users for a plurality of applications installed on the user device to direct users on how to proceed with operation of a particular application. The method comprises selecting an application installed in the user device, activating a help mode function provided in a user device, checking for the help content corresponding to the selected application, connecting the user device to an central server if a help content pertaining to the selected application is not available, synchronizing the selected application with the applications in the central server and extracting the help content for the selected application from the central server to the user device. The activation of the help mode disables the plurality of applications installed in the user device and sets the user device to function under a help mode. | 06-20-2013 |
20130174034 | Providing Variable Responses in a Virtual-Assistant Environment - Virtual assistants intelligently emulate a representative of a service provider by providing variable responses to user queries received via the virtual assistants. These variable responses may take the context of a user's query into account both when identifying an intent of a user's query and when identifying an appropriate response to the user's query. | 07-04-2013 |
20130179780 | PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT - An information processing apparatus that determines a direction to browsed next as a guiding direction with a location of content displayed by a display of the information processing apparatus as a reference location; determines a perceptual strength of each of a plurality of active elements disposed in different locations on or within a casing of the information processing apparatus based on the guiding direction; and controls each of the plurality of active elements based on the perceptual strengths. | 07-11-2013 |
20130198627 | Dynamic Extension View with Multiple Levels of Expansion - Application extension management may be provided. A plurality of related documents may be scanned to determine whether an activation trigger associated with an application extension has been triggered. In response to determining that the activation trigger associated with the application extension has been triggered, the application extension may be triggered and a user interface element associated with the application extension may be displayed according to a display rule. | 08-01-2013 |
20130238990 | CONTEXT-SENSITIVE HELP FOR IMAGE VIEWING AND EDITING APPLICATION - Some embodiments provide an image-viewing application. The application receives a selection of a help activation item in a graphical user interface (GUI) of the image-viewing application. The application displays help indicators for a first set of selectable GUI items. The application receives a selection of one of the first set of selectable GUI items. In response to receiving the selection, the application displays (i) a second set of GUI items and (ii) help indicators for the second set of GUI items, and removes the help indicators from the first set of selectable GUI items while maintaining the display of the first set of selectable GUI items. | 09-12-2013 |
20130238991 | Enhanced Contextual User Assistance - In an approach, an exemplary method includes receiving a query related to an electronic device through a first user interface associated with the electronic device, sensing a context of the electronic device, and providing an assistance correlating to the query and the sensed context through a second user interface associated with the electronic device. In another approach, an exemplary system includes an electronic device having a context sensor, a first and a second user interface, and instructions. The instructions cause the electronic device to receive a query related to the electronic device through a first user interface associated with the electronic device, receive a context of the electronic device from the context sensor, and provide an assistance corresponding to the query and the context of the electronic device through a second user interface associated with the electronic device. | 09-12-2013 |
20130268854 | UTILIZING DRAWING GUIDES IN DETERMINING THE DISPLAY OF SMART GUIDES IN A DRAWING PROGRAM - Technologies are described herein for utilizing drawing guides in determining the display of smart guides in a drawing program. The drawing program detects that an active drawing object is being manipulated on a drawing canvas. The drawing program determines if one or more drawing guides are visible on the drawing canvas. Upon determining that one or more drawing guides are visible on the drawing canvas, the drawing program treats the drawing guides as drawing objects in determining the display of smart guides on the drawing canvas and the snap-to positioning of the active drawing object. | 10-10-2013 |
20130275870 | REAL-TIME INSTALLATION AND/OR CONFIGURATION ASSISTANT - A system and method of assisting a user include displaying a status of a configuration. A point of progress is detected before completion of a web based configuration. Data associated with the point of progress is sent to a server to perform a query of a knowledgebase with the data to identify information associated with the point of progress. Information is received from the server in response to the server performing the query of the knowledgebase and provided to a user to assist the user with completing the web based configuration. | 10-17-2013 |
20130298019 | User Interface (UI) Mechanism for Changing Difficulty Levels within an Exercise Application Delivered Via the Internet - Systems and methods for enabling an end-user of an online exercise application to change exercise difficulty levels by interacting with a control panel on the application graphical user interface. The end-user may cause the application to retrieve an easier or harder exercise video in order to achieve an adaptable, personalized level of difficulty. For example, if an end user begins watching an exercise of a given difficulty level within a module, the use may input a command to transition to a more (or less) difficult exercise within that module. The application will retrieve a new exercise and present the newly retrieved exercise to the end user. A “storyboard” depicting each of the exercises in the program may be depicted in a small row of tiles below a video player. | 11-07-2013 |
20130332828 | AUXILIARY METHOD AND DEVICE IN INFORMATION CONFIGURATION PROCESS - An auxiliary method and an auxiliary device in an information configuration process are provided. The auxiliary method in an information configuration process includes: reading an input item to be configured and an input value corresponding to the input item in a configuration interface; searching for a help information template and an input value transform rule which are corresponding to the input item; transforming the input value according to the input value transform rule; generating help information for the input item by using the help information template and the transformed input value; and displaying the help information in the configuration interface. The present invention further provides an auxiliary device in an information configuration process. Embodiments of the present invention help to improve efficiency of information configuration. | 12-12-2013 |
20140033033 | MANUAL BROWSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - There is provided a manual browsing device comprising: a manual storage section that stores manual information; a collection section that collects device information of the manual browsing device or device information of a peripheral, which is an external device communicating information with the manual browsing device; an information selection section that selects a display menu which indicates some of the manual information based on the device information collected by the collection section; and an updating section that updates a display screen on which the manual information is displayed, by using the display menu selected by the information selection section. | 01-30-2014 |
20140040735 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING VOICE GUIDANCE FUNCTION AND AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - Embodiments of the present disclosure include a voice guidance function for visually challenged people in an electronic device, and more particularly, an apparatus and method for inducing a touch input location of a user who uses contents data in the electronic device and for changing a data analysis (or data reading) direction and area. A method provides a voice guidance function in an electronic device. The method includes outputting a reproduction screen of contents, determining a data analysis area by confirming an arrangement of data constituting an output screen, and inducing a user input to the determined data analysis area, wherein the data arrangement comprises at least one of a line, a line start point, a line end point, a sentence start point, a sentence end point, and a page of the output screen. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040736 | SYSTEM FOR CREATING AND DISTRIBUTING A CARTOON TO MOBILE DEVICES - A system for creating cartoons for mobile devices facilitates the creation and dissemination of cartoons to a plurality of mobile devices and computers. A cartoon can comprise of multiple panels, and each panel, in addition to graphics and text, can have an ordered set of audio (voice, music, etc.) provided, which are played back in a mobile device by a cartoon client component in the specified order for each of the panels. A computer or PC comprising the cartoon creator functionality is used to generate cartoons and communicate it to a cartoon distribution server. | 02-06-2014 |
20140053070 | GUIDED PAGE NAVIGATION - Configuring a set of guided documents for operation of a business activity based on a workflow for the activity, industry expertise, and a plurality of models of source data that is relevant to the business activity, wherein points of entry to access the guided documents are organized around one or more industry-specific data dimensions. | 02-20-2014 |
20140059428 | PORTABLE DEVICE AND GUIDE INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD THEREOF - A portable device and guide information providing method thereof for providing guide information in response to a hovering gesture input made with a pen are provided. The method includes detecting a hovering gesture input, acquiring guide information corresponding to a currently running application, and displaying the guide information in response to the hovering gesture input. | 02-27-2014 |
20140068431 | GUIDED PAGE NAVIGATION - Configuring a set of guided documents for operation of a business activity based on a workflow for the activity, industry expertise, and a plurality of models of source data that is relevant to the business activity, wherein points of entry to access the guided documents are organized around one or more industry-specific data dimensions. | 03-06-2014 |
20140082492 | MODIFIABLE CONTEXTUAL HELP CONTENT PROVIDED IN-LINE WITHIN AN APPLICATION - Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with providing contextual content along with elements within an application are described. According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes icon logic configured to generate, in response to detecting a selection of a page element, an icon that indicates whether contextual content associated with the page element is available. The page element is a display element of a graphical user interface (GUI) for an application. The apparatus includes context logic configured to generate a context panel in response to detecting an input associated with the icon. The context logic is configured to generate the context panel with a first tab and a second tab. The first tab includes a description of the page element and the second tab includes a set of comments from users about the page element. | 03-20-2014 |
20140101546 | SUPPORTED APPARATUS, SUPPORTING APPARATUS, INTER-APPARATUS GUIDE SYSTEM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A supported apparatus includes: an output unit that displays an operation screen which is an image including one or more operation items in the supported apparatus; a request issuance unit that issues a support start request which is a signal including operation screen information for specifying the one or more operation items displayed on the operation screen; a transmission and reception unit that transmits the support start request to a supporting apparatus, and receives guide graphical user interface (GUI) information from the supporting apparatus, the guide GUI information indicating an operation item to be operated by a supported user from among the one or more operation items; and a guide GUI superimposition unit that superimposes a guide GUI on the operation screen based on the guide GUI information, the guide GUI being an image for showing the supported user the operation item to be operated. | 04-10-2014 |
20140108927 | GESTURE BASED CONTEXT-SENSITIVE FUNTIONALITY - Gesture based, context sensitive help and search functionalities are provided for application programs on a mobile device. In response to detecting movement at a mobile device in the form of a gesture, it is determined whether the movement corresponds to a predetermined gesture for invoking a help or search functionality. When the movement corresponds to a predetermined gesture, a current context of mobile device is identified and help content associated with the identified current context is retrieved for the help functionality, or a search query associated with the context is invoked and search results are obtained for a search functionality, for presentation to the user of the mobile device. | 04-17-2014 |
20140115456 | SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING SOFTWARE FUNCTIONALITY - A system and method for facilitating user access to software functionality, such as enterprise-related software applications and accompanying actions and data. An example method includes receiving natural language input; displaying electronic text representative of the natural language input, in a conversation flow illustrated via user interface display screen; interpreting the natural language input and determining a command representative thereof; employing the command to determine and display a prompt, which is associated with a predetermined set of one or more user selectable items; providing a first user option to indicate a user selection responsive to the prompt; and inserting a representation of the user selection in the conversation flow. In a more specific embodiment, the first user option is provided via an input selection mechanism other than natural language, e.g., via a touch gesture, such that the conversation flow includes text representing user input other than purely text or voice-based input. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115457 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR READING HELP FILES OF SOFTWARE PROGRAM - In a method for reading a help file of a software program, relationships between graphical interfaces of the software program and help items in the help file are generated, and one or more help items related to a currently displayed graphical interface of the software program are loaded according to the relationships. The related help items are classified to generate a help list which includes one or more information items, and the help list is displayed to a user for selecting an information item when the help file is invoked. The related help items are then displayed on a display device according to the selected information item. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115458 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTEXT-SENSITIVE HELP FOR TOUCH SCREEN INPUTS - Systems and methods are provided for context-sensitive help for touch screen inputs. A system receives a touch screen input to refresh information displayed by a touch screen. The system outputs a prompt to continue the touch screen input to receive a prompt of context-sensitive help. The system receives a continued touch screen input to receive the prompt of the context-sensitive help. The system outputs the prompt of the context-sensitive help. | 04-24-2014 |
20140115459 | HELP SYSTEM - A help function that guides a user through steps presented contextually. Help instructions appear on the GUI within a comment bubble that is pointing to the screen location requiring user input. The bubble also discloses the step the user is executing and the total number of steps involved in the help process. The customized help utility may run as a plug-in on an existing web-based, or a module on non-networked computer system, or be incorporated in with the original software. Users can create a customized Help utility for a particular software, and create messages within a software program. | 04-24-2014 |
20140129934 | DYNAMIC MODEL-BASED MANAGEMENT TOOLING - The subject disclosure is directed towards a technology by which a management tool locates, processes and runs guidance package, comprising program code and associated metadata. The management tool may be associated with an interactive component configured to obtain user-related data. The management tool accesses one or more guidance packages based upon the user-related data, processes the metadata of at least one guidance package, and runs program code of at least one guidance package based upon the metadata. | 05-08-2014 |
20140143667 | CLIENT DEVICE WITH EVENT WIZARD APPLICATION AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH - A client device includes at least one processor that executes an event wizard client application in conjunction with a user interface to display event type menu data, receive event type selection data, receive event size selection data, displaying event budget menu data, receive event budget selection data, display event budget data, displaying event option menu data, receive event option selection data, display event invitee menu data, and receive event invitee selection data. | 05-22-2014 |
20140164920 | INFORMATION-SELECTION ASSIST SYSTEM, INFORMATION-SELECTION ASSIST METHOD AND PROGRAM - Information selected by a user and number of selection times thereof are registered in pair in a selection-candidate list storage section ( | 06-12-2014 |
20140173429 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THERFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - To provide an information processing apparatus that displays help information related to a predetermined item upon receipt of an operation for a predetermined time period to the predetermined item that is displayed on the screen. When an operation is performed to an item that is different from the predetermined item after the help information related to the predetermined item is displayed, help information related to the different item is displayed on the screen without waiting for an operation for the predetermined time period to the different item. | 06-19-2014 |
20140181652 | Contextual and Personalized Help - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by one or more computing devices, a help query from a user of a social-networking system. The computing devices identify help content responsive to the help query based at least in part on a state of an account of the user on the social-networking system and activity by the user on the social-networking system. The computing devices send the help content for presentation to the user. | 06-26-2014 |
20140189509 | PASSIVE INTERACTION GUIDE SYSTEM AND METHOD - An interactive communications system includes a passive guide system for guiding users on a website to locate their desired content. The passive guide system includes a monitor module configured to monitor user's interaction with content of the website. The passive guide system further includes an analysis module configured to analyse the user's interaction to anticipate user's requirement. The passive guide system further includes a guide module configured to present a message for guiding the user to locate the content on the website based on the anticipated user's requirement. The passive guide system also includes a feedback module for receiving a feedback from the user and changing the previous message based on the feedback. | 07-03-2014 |
20140195908 | UNIFORM VALUE HELP AND VALUE CHECK - In one aspect, there is provided a method for value help and check. The method may include receiving an indication associated with a user interface element, the indication representing a value help request for the user interface element; sending a request for a value help to a value help business object configured to provide the value help to a user interface including the user interface element, the user interface element bound to a portion of the value help business object; and receiving, at the user interface comprising the user interface element, a response to the request, the response comprising the value help. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed. | 07-10-2014 |
20140201629 | COLLABORATIVE LEARNING THROUGH USER GENERATED KNOWLEDGE - A feedback loop is used by a central knowledge manager to obtain information from different users and deliver learned information to other users. Each user utilizes a personal assistant that learns from the user over time. The user may teach their personal assistant new knowledge through a natural user interface (NUI) and/or some other interface. For example, a combination of a natural language dialog and other non-verbal modalities of expressing intent (gestures, touch, gaze, images/videos, spoken prosody, . . . ) may be used to interact with the personal assistant. As knowledge is learned, each personal assistant sends the newly learned knowledge back to the knowledge manager. The knowledge obtained from the personal assistants is combined to form a collective intelligence. This collective intelligence is then transferred back to each of the individual personal assistants. In this way, the knowledge of one personal assistant benefits the other personal assistants through the feedback loop. | 07-17-2014 |
20140223298 | METHOD OF EDITING CONTENT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME - A display device having a screen and a touch panel, and methods of enabling a user to edit content displayed on the screen using the touch panel, are described. In one aspect, a method of editing content in a display device having a touch panel installed in a screen includes displaying target content on the screen, displaying a guide on top of the target content in response to a trigger gesture by a touch input means on the target content, zooming the guide in response to a zooming gesture by the touch input means on the guide, and terminating the display of the zoomed guide and displaying the target content at the same magnification with the zoomed guide, in response to a release of contact of the touch input means on the guide. | 08-07-2014 |
20140223299 | GESTURE-BASED USER INTERFACE METHOD AND APPARATUS - Provided is a gesture-based user interface method and apparatus to improve convenience in manipulation of the gesture-based user interface. The gesture-based user interface method includes detecting an input position, determining at least one gesture that can be input in the detected position, and displaying at least one guide corresponding to the determined at least one gesture on a screen. | 08-07-2014 |
20140223300 | REMOTE ASSISTANCE METHOD, SYSTEM AND TERMINAL - An implementation of the present invention provides a remote assistance method, system and terminal. The method comprises: establishing a connection between an assisted terminal and an assisting terminal through a communication protocol; designating a window that needs assistance and sending a screenshot of the window to the assisting terminal by the assisted terminal; displaying the screenshot of the window, executing an assistance operation on the screenshot of the window, and sending assistance operation information corresponding to the assistance operation to the assisted terminal by the assisting terminal; executing the assistance operation specified by the assisting terminal on the window that needs assistance by the assisted terminal, according to the assistance operation information. The implementation of the present invention improves operation accuracy and protects user's privacy. | 08-07-2014 |
20140245140 | Virtual Assistant Transfer between Smart Devices - Techniques for transferring an interaction with a virtual assistant from a smart device to another smart device are described herein. The virtual assistant may act as an interface between an end user and content stored locally or remotely. The techniques may include outputting the virtual assistant on the smart device to facilitate an interaction of the virtual assistant with a user. Thereafter, the virtual assistant may be output on the other smart device to continue the interaction of the virtual assistant with the user on the other smart device. In some instances, one or more pieces of context of the interaction of the virtual assistant with the user are transferred with the virtual assistant to the other smart device. | 08-28-2014 |
20140245141 | CONTEXTUAL USER ASSISTANCE FOR CLOUD SERVICES - To provide contextual user assistance for cloud services, an assistance panel is presented as part of the cloud service portal and is available in the user interface of the portal. The assistance panel can provide contextual assistance based on current user information, including task or error messages, as well as product name and user role. The assistance panel provides assistance functions including a search function, a browse syndicated community content function, and a post to a community forum function within the cloud service portal and can transform to accommodate the functions. For the browse function, the assistance panel uses the current user information to dynamically update a list of syndicated community content that can potentially match the user's needs as the user navigates to different pages presented in the portal. A content curator tool can be used to control and prioritize the content surfaced by the browse function. | 08-28-2014 |
20140245142 | USER INTERFACE FOR A REMOTE CONTROL APPLICATION - A hand-held electronic device having a remote control application user interface that functions to displays operational mode information to a user. The graphical user interface may be used, for example, to setup the remote control application to control appliances for one or more users in one or more rooms, to perform activities, and to access favorites. The remote control application is also adapted to be upgradeable. Furthermore, the remote control application provides for the sharing of operational mode information. | 08-28-2014 |
20140250378 | USING HUMAN WIZARDS IN A CONVERSATIONAL UNDERSTANDING SYSTEM - A wizard control panel may be used by a human wizard to adjust the operation of a Natural Language (NL) conversational system during a real-time dialog flow. Input to the wizard control panel is detected and used to interrupt/change an automatic operation of one or more of the NL conversational system components used during the flow. For example, the wizard control panel may be used to adjust results determined by an Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) component, a Natural Language Understanding (NLU) component, a Dialog Manager (DM) component, and a Natural Language Generation (NLG) before the results are used to perform an automatic operation within the flow. A timeout may also be set such that when the timeout expires, the conversational system performs an automated operation by using the results shown in the wizard control panel (edited/not edited). | 09-04-2014 |
20140258856 | TASK ASSISTANT INCLUDING NAVIGATION CONTROL - A method of providing a task assistant to provide an interface to an application is described. The method includes, in one embodiment, identifying a user and determining whether there is a push notification to be shown to the user. When there is a push notification to be shown to the user, the task assistant displaying the push notification to the user, such that when the user acknowledges the push notification, the user is directed to a push destination. When there is no push notification, receiving input from a user through multimodal input including a plurality of speech input, typing input, and touch input, interpreting the input, and providing a formatted query to the application, receiving data from the application in response to the query, and providing a response to the user through multimodal output including a plurality of: speech output, text output, non-speech audio output, haptic output, and visual non-text output. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258857 | TASK ASSISTANT HAVING MULTIPLE STATES - A method of providing a task assistant to provide an interface to an application, the method comprising activating the task assistant, the activation having an associated visual display. The method in one embodiment includes receiving input from a user through multimodal input including a plurality of speech input, typing input, and touch input, interpreting the input, and providing a formatted query to the application, receiving data from the application in response to the query, and providing a response to the user through multimodal output including a plurality of: speech output, text output, non-speech audio output, haptic output, and visual non-text output, wherein the task assistant has a plurality of active states, each of the active states having an associated visual display. | 09-11-2014 |
20140281964 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRESENTING GUIDANCE OF GESTURE INPUT ON A TOUCH PAD - A method of presenting guidance of gesture input on a touch pad having a touch screen and a touch sensor and coupled to an infotainment system including a first screen in a vehicle, includes predicting one or more gestures available under a current control context at the infotainment system, generating one or more graphics corresponding with the one or more gestures, detecting a gesture on the touch screen by the touch sensor and transmitting the detected gesture to the infotainment system and displaying the one or more graphics. | 09-18-2014 |
20140281965 | LAYOUT EDITING DEVICE, LAYOUT EDITING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided is a layout editing device, a layout editing method, and a recording medium. The layout editing device includes a layout editing unit editing a layout, which is displayed on an editing screen of a screen display unit, based on the instruction of a user, an image analysis unit performing image analysis of each of a plurality of images, a preference estimation unit estimating the preference of the user based on the layout editing result and the image analysis result, an image evaluation unit calculating the evaluation value of each of the plurality of images based on the preference of the user and the image analysis result, and an edit assisting unit displaying assist information, which is for assisting the editing work of the layout by the user, on the editing screen of the screen display unit based on the evaluation value of each of the plurality of images. | 09-18-2014 |
20140281966 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - In order to enable users to use various functions via simple operations, a setting unit is configured to set any of setting values included in a first item in a hierarchy of a first setting menu and to set any of setting values included in a second item in a hierarchy of a second setting menu, and a control unit is configured to, according to a specific operation, switch to selection of a second setting value included in the second item in a case a first setting value included in the first item is selected, and to switch to selection of a fourth setting value included in the second item in a case a third setting value included in the first item is selected. | 09-18-2014 |
20140281967 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MEDIA FOR PRESENTING INTERACTIVE CHECKLISTS - Mechanisms for presenting interactive checklists comprising: at least one hardware processor that: receives an indication from a first user assigned to a first step that the first step has been completed; presents a description for a second step to users assigned to the second step in response to receiving the indication; receives at least one of: interactive checklist content describing how to perform the second step; and a new description for a new step, after the presenting of the description of the second step; and saves the at least one of the interactive checklist content and the new description, and an indicator that the at least one of the interactive checklist content and the new description is to be available for presentation to users after the receiving of the at least one of the interactive checklist content and the new description. | 09-18-2014 |
20140310596 | COMMUNITY ENHANCED TUTORIALS: IMPROVING TUTORIALS WITH MULTIPLE DEMONSTRATIONS - Techniques are disclosed for presenting an online tutorial. A method for presenting an online tutorial may generally include providing an interactive tutorial to a user. The interactive tutorial may include both tutorial content specifying steps to perform a task with an application and an application interface associated with the application used to perform the task. This method may also include recording the user interacting with the application interface to perform the task according to the steps specified by the interactive tutorial and augmenting the tutorial content with the recorded user interaction. | 10-16-2014 |
20140317503 | Method and Apparatus for a Textural Representation of a Guidance - A method comprising receiving an indication of a first input associated with an information item, determining that the first input corresponds with a first part of an invocation input associated with invocation of display of, at least part of, content associated with the information item, identifying a second part of the invocation input, the second part of the invocation input being immediately subsequent to the first part of the invocation input, and causing rendering, on a variable texture surface, of a textural representation of a guidance indicative of the second part is disclosed. | 10-23-2014 |
20140317504 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR PUSHING INFORMATION - A method, device and system for pushing information is disclosed by the present disclosure. The method comprises, obtaining and storing a microblog message published though an Instant Messaging client by a user; scanning the stored microblog message published by the user and obtaining keywords of the microblog message according to a preset extracting policy; and determining an application scene of the user according to the obtained keywords, matching the application scene with the corresponding prestored help information, and obtaining and pushing the matched help information. | 10-23-2014 |
20140325352 | MANAGEMENT OF CONTEXT-SENSITIVE HELP LINKS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable and executable instructions are provided for management of context-sensitive help (CSH) links. Management of CSH links can include assigning a unique identifier to a CSH link in a program that links to a help system. Management of CSH links can include identifying a user interface resource that calls the help system for the CSH link and mapping the user interface resource for the CSH link to an anchor point in the help system. Management of the CSH links can include generating a reference between the unique identifier of the CSH link and the anchor point in the help system. | 10-30-2014 |
20140331131 | Accessible Self-Service Kiosk - Accessible self-service kiosks are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for interacting with an accessible self-service kiosk may include (1) receiving, from a user, identifying information; (2) retrieving information about the user based on the identifying information; (3) receiving an instruction from the user to enter an accessibility mode; and (4) interacting with the user with an accessible interface. | 11-06-2014 |
20140337727 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC HELP CONTENT PRESENTATION - Systems and methods are disclosed herein to a method for presenting help content for a user interface comprising: displaying, by a computer, a user interface including a help tool window; receiving, by a computer, a request to display a first user interface page; referencing, by a computer, a first help content address of help content for the first user interface page that is stored in memory; changing, by a computer, a source attribute of the help tool window to the first help content address; and refreshing, by a computer, the help tool window so that the help content for the first user interface page is displayed by the help tool window. | 11-13-2014 |
20140351701 | INFORMATION PROVISION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROVISION PROGRAM - An information providing system according to an embodiment includes an acquisition unit and a display control unit. The acquisition unit acquires a plurality of help topics corresponding to a plurality of entry fields to be displayed on a screen from a field/topic storage unit that stores help topics corresponding to entry fields. The display control unit displays the plurality of entry fields in an entry area in the screen displayed on a user terminal and displays the plurality of help topics acquired by the acquisition unit in a help area in the screen. When a field/topic displayed in one of the entry area and the help area is specified, the display control unit makes a display mode of a field/topic in the other area corresponding to the specified field/topic different from a display mode of the other fields/topics in the other area. | 11-27-2014 |
20140365885 | DEVICE, METHOD, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR ENABLING CONVERSATION PERSISTENCE ACROSS TWO OR MORE INSTANCES OF A DIGITAL ASSISTANT - An electronic device with one or more processors and memory includes a procedure for enabling conversation persistence across two or more instances of a digital assistant. In some embodiments, the device displays a first dialogue in a first instance of a digital assistant user interface. In response to a request to display a user interface different from the digital assistant user interface, the device displays the user interface different from the digital assistant user interface. In response to a request to invoke the digital assistant, the device displays a second instance of the digital assistant user interface, including displaying a second dialogue in the second instance of the digital assistant user interface, where the first dialogue remains available for display in the second instance of the digital assistant user interface. | 12-11-2014 |
20150019963 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal; a sensing unit configured to sense tapping gestures; a memory configured to store a matching of a plurality of actions to perform with a plurality of tapping gestures; and a controller configured to display a first execution screen on a display unit corresponding to a first function executing on the mobile terminal, and perform a first action on the first function matched with a first type of tapping gestures and perform a second action different than the first action on the first function matched with a second type of tapping gestures. | 01-15-2015 |
20150040006 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM FOR CREATING INTERACTIVE ELECTRONIC BOOKS - A computerized system and method for creating interactive electronic books over a computerized network. The system includes an effects library module having a plurality of interactive effects wizard modules configured to automate code generation for an effect, the effects include performing a mathematical function on user input; animating a graphic on a trigger; playing an author uploaded audio file on a trigger; and scrolling a user view on a trigger other than a usual scroll trigger; triggering code generated by an interactive effects wizard module; delaying operation of code generated by an interactive effects wizard module; requesting a user input and storing the same in memory; operating a user interface effect; changing a display characteristic of a displayed object; selecting a displayed item; sending data on a trigger; controlling the display of media by a user; randomizing an effect, and etc. | 02-05-2015 |
20150058725 | MOBILE TERMINAL HAVING TOUCH SCREEN AND FUNCTION CONTROLLING METHOD OF THE SAME - A method for providing a graphical user interface on a display of a device includes displaying a photograph image on the display of the device, detecting a touch on the display, providing a plurality of control guides at a location corresponding to the touch over the displayed photograph image, in response to detecting the touch, detecting a first drag in a first direction corresponding to a first one of the plurality of control guides provided on the display, removing the plurality of control guides from the display in response to detecting the first drag, detecting a second drag in a second direction different from the first direction of the first drag and corresponding to a second one of the plurality of control guides, the second drag is performed while maintaining touch on the display after the first drag is performed, adjusting a display characteristic of the photograph image corresponding to the second one of the plurality of control guides corresponding to the second drag, and displaying the photograph image having the adjusted display characteristic on the display in response to detecting the second drag. | 02-26-2015 |
20150067501 | METHOD TO GENERATE DYNAMIC CUSTOMIZED CONTEXT-SENSITIVE HELP - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for customizing help screens. A computer receives a request for help content. The computer identifies an annotated help file that corresponds to the request for help content. The computer identifies one or more variables in the identified annotated help file. The computer retrieves a value for each of the one or more variables from a software product. The computer replaces each of the one or more variables in the identified annotated help file with the retrieved value to generate customized help content. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067502 | GUIDED BROWSING EXPERIENCE - Methods and systems of providing a guided navigation experience are described. According to various embodiments, a first type of use case may be determined for a first use of a website by a user. The first type of use case may be determined amongst a plurality of types of use cases. A first navigation recommendation may be determined based on the determined first type of use case. The first navigation recommendation may comprise a recommendation for the user to navigate to a first content on the website. The first navigation recommendation may be caused to be displayed to the user. In some embodiments, the plurality of types of use cases may comprise at least one of viewing an update of a profile of another user, viewing an event associated with the profile of another user, performing a job search, and participating in or viewing a discussion. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067503 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS WITH AGENT STORE - A virtual assistant platform (“VAP”) provides a self-supporting and expandable architectural framework for virtual assistants (“VAs”) to communicate with a user via an electronic device. VAs may communicate with other devices, software programs, and other VAs. VAs may include intelligent agents configured to perform particular tasks. The VAP may include an execution environment that provides an interface between the VA and the electronic device and a framework of services for the intelligent agents. A VA may participate in or coordinate a group of VAs in which knowledge and tasks can be shared and cooperatively executed. The execution environment may include an agent store for registering agents for use on the VAP, storing agent code and data, and distributing agents to requesting users. Through the agent store, new VAs and agents may be distributed to users to expand their use of the VAP. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067504 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING CONTENT ACCORDING TO FIELD ATTRIBUTE - An operating method of an electronic device is provided. The method includes selecting an area corresponding to at least one field of a page displayed through a display of the electronic device on the basis of an input; confirming an attribute corresponding to the at least one field among a plurality of attributes including a first attribute and a second attribute; and selectively providing a content corresponding to the attribute among at least one content including a first content and a second content according to the confirmed attribute. | 03-05-2015 |
20150082165 | Method and Apparatus for Digitally Tearing Out an Article - A method for digitally tearing out an article from a digital magazine is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method is realized by splitting the whole digital magazine into separate articles based on the digital magazine's meta-data, providing a user interface for users to take action of tearing out an article, checking the tear-out request against the article's tear-out policy, and retrieving and adding the article to the user's collection if the request is granted. | 03-19-2015 |
20150082166 | ASSISTED DISPLAY FOR COMMAND LINE INTERFACES - A method for an assisted display for command line interfaces is described. In an embodiment, an input region and an output region of a command line interface are displayed. Commands are displayed within the input region as they are received. A history is maintained that stores the output of previous executions. At least a portion of the output maintained by the history is displayed within the output region. The output region is scrolled by adding one or more outputs from the history to the display of the output region and/or removing one or more outputs from the display of the output region. Wherein, scrolling the output region does not cause the display of the input region to become obscured. In another embodiment, an input assistance region is displayed that walks a user through selecting commands supported by the command line interface as well as options and arguments for those commands. | 03-19-2015 |
20150089364 | INITIATING A HELP FEATURE - A method for initiating a help feature includes detecting and making a first determination as to whether a first interaction with a surface associated with a user interface matches a predetermined first gesture. Following a positive first determination, a second interaction is detected and a second determination is made as to whether a second interaction with the surface matches a predetermined second gesture. Following a positive second determination, one of a plurality of controls presented in the user interface that corresponds to the second interaction is identified. A help feature corresponding to the identified control is caused to be displayed. | 03-26-2015 |
20150089365 | ADVANCED MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING WIZARD - An automatic medical image processing system includes a series of operation stages, each automating specifying the image processing parameters for processing medical images. In response to an image processing indicator, a first medical image is automatically identified, including determining a first image operation and image processing parameters, without user intervention. The first image operation is performed on the first medical image based on the image processing parameters. A second medical image is generated and transmitted to the client device to be presented therein. The client device displays a message prompting the user whether the user is satisfied with the second medical image. In response to a user input from the client device indicating that the user is unsatisfied with the second medical image, one or more remedial options are presented to allow the user selecting a remedial action to reprocess the first medical image. | 03-26-2015 |
20150106709 | GUIDING GESTURE OPERATIONS - A method, system, and computer program product for guiding gesture operations are provided in the illustrative embodiments. An initial position of a gesture is determined. The gesture is a touch-based gesture made by a user relative to a touch-sensitive interface of a data processing system. The gesture is made to manipulate data presented using the data processing system. A set of gesture size adjustments is determined. A set of data adjustments to be made to the data is computed. An adjustment in the set of data adjustments corresponds to an adjustment in the set of gesture size adjustments. The set of gesture size adjustments and the corresponding set of data adjustments are presented as a guide relative to the initial position of the gesture. The guide informs the user about an expected result of a member gesture size adjustment before the user makes the gesture size adjustment. | 04-16-2015 |
20150106710 | Method for Operating an Automatic Cleaning Machine - The invention relates to a method for operating an automatic cleaning device, in particular an industrially usable dishwasher or cleaning and disinfection device with a man-machine interface and a display with buttons. Symbols for the operation and/or an ongoing process are illustrated on the man-machine interface. An interaction of an operator with the man-machine interface is effected via buttons. Depending on the requirements of the operator, context-sensitive help is retrieved via a retrieval, said help accessing a stored information supply comprising image formats, PNG formats, drawings, maintenance lists, spare parts lists and/or databases, which are offered to the operator. | 04-16-2015 |
20150121217 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC INVOCATION OF GUIDED READING TUTORIAL BASED ON ACCOUNT ACTIVITY - A user interface method for an automatic invocation of a guided reading tutorial. The method includes displaying a section of an article of a document on a screen of the handheld device, and receiving an input from a user of the handheld device. The method further includes, in response to the input, communicating with an on-line instruction program linked to a user account, determining whether to invoke the instruction program based on predetermined settings, and automatically executing the instruction program in accordance with the settings, wherein the instruction program is configured to lead though a plurality of features of guided reading of the handheld device for familiarization. | 04-30-2015 |
20150121218 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING TEXT INPUT IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method and apparatus for controlling a text input in an electronic device having a touch screen are provided. The method includes displaying at least one text inputted via a touch panel of the touch screen; when a deletion event is detected through the touch panel, deleting at least one of the displayed at least one text and storing the deleted at least one text in a memory unit; when the deletion event is removed, displaying a recovery guide on the touch screen and displaying the stored at least one text in the recovery guide; and when a selecting event is detected from the recovery guide, recovering at least one text selected from the recovery guide and displaying the selected at least one text as inputted at least one text. | 04-30-2015 |
20150128038 | GUIDED PROFILE EDITING SYSTEM - According to various exemplary embodiments, it is determined that a particular user is associated with a particular member segment of a networking website. Further, a task prioritization list associated with the particular member segment is accessed. The task prioritization list may include a prioritized list of profile update tasks associated with successful user profile pages of the particular member segment. Moreover, a prompt is displayed inviting the particular user to update the particular user profile page based on the task prioritization list (e.g., by referring to the member segment and at least one of the tasks in the task prioritization list). | 05-07-2015 |
20150143238 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - The present disclosure may provide a mobile terminal including a body having a front surface, a rear surface and a lateral surface thereof, a display unit disposed on the front surface to display first screen information, a lateral touch sensing unit formed on the lateral surface adjacent to both edges of the display unit to receive a user's consecutive touch input, and a controller configured to control the display unit to display second screen information in one region on the display unit corresponding to a touch range of the consecutive touch input. | 05-21-2015 |
20150301838 | System and Method for Enabling Customized Notifications on an Electronic Device - A system and method are provided for enabling customized notifications on an electronic device. The method comprises displaying a recommendation on the electronic device to create a custom notification for at least one communication type. The method also comprises enabling the custom notification to be created for the at least one communication type. The recommendation may be determined using usage data associated with the at least one communication type. The custom notification may be created by navigating to a custom notifications user interface. The custom notification may also be created by automatically determining at least one custom notification setting. | 10-22-2015 |
20150378527 | PORTABLE STORAGE MEDIUM INCLUDING INSTRUCTION MANUAL CONTENT FOR VEHICLE - Disclosed herein is a portable storage medium including content through which a user can easily understand an instruction manual for a vehicle and search the instruction manual for desired information. The portable storage medium may include a content storage unit configured to store execution content including information about moving images of an instruction manual for the vehicle and advertisement content, a control unit configured to extract the lists of respective items from the file of the execution content including the information about the moving images of the instruction manual for the vehicle and generate playable composite content by combining selected execution content with the advertisement content, and an interface unit configured to access an external terminal and send information about the composite content to the external terminal. | 12-31-2015 |
20150378749 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device has a storage unit and a touch panel with a screen. The storage unit stores layout information indicating the positions at which various settings are displayed on the screen. The touch panel displays a setting selection screen on which the settings are arranged in the display positions indicated by the layout information, accepts selections of settings to be made, and displays help screens showing help information for each of the settings in an order corresponding to the display positions indicated by the layout information. The layout information can be altered to have the help information displayed in a desired order. | 12-31-2015 |
20160034120 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information processing apparatus includes a function-in-use discriminating unit that discriminates types of functions of a tool operated by a first user; a technical-level calculating unit that calculates the technical level of each of the functions used by the user on the basis of the operation performance of the functions as performed by the user; a communication unit that transmits, to an external storage device, technician level information in which the technical level, the first user, and the function are associated; and a technical-level-display processing unit that accesses the external storage device via the communication unit, acquires, from the technician level information, technical levels of the other users with respect to a function being used by the first user, and causes a display apparatus X | 02-04-2016 |
20160034126 | VISUAL CUES FOR SCROLLING - The invention discloses a method and apparatus for helping the user of computer devices, such as desktop computers, laptop computers, tablet computers, smartphones, and augmented reality devices, to view information displayed during and after scrolling, when scrolling is performed with variable increment scrolling input devices, such as scroll wheels or touch-sensing devices. According to an embodiment of the invention, the area of the displayed document, which corresponds to the location of the screen pointer immediately before scrolling or the point of the initial user contact with a touchscreen, is highlighted with visual cues during and shortly after scrolling to support the continuity of user's attention. | 02-04-2016 |
20160062579 | CUSTOMIZING USER INTERFACE INDICATORS BASED ON PRIOR INTERACTIONS - A method may provide a customized graphical user interface indicator. The method may include determining a count corresponding to a number of user interactions between a user and a graphical user interface for an application that is executed at a computing device. Based on the count, an appearance of an indicator may be customized. The indicator may provide instructions for interacting with the graphical user interface for the application. Based on a first count, the indicator may be customized to have a first appearance, and based on a second count, the indicator may be customized to have a second appearance, where the first appearance is different from the second appearance. The indicator having a customized appearance may be caused to be displayed concurrently with the graphical user interface for the application. | 03-03-2016 |
20160070580 | DIGITAL PERSONAL ASSISTANT REMOTE INVOCATION - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for providing personal assistant information. For example, a primary device (e.g., a smart phone) may establish a communication channel with a secondary device (e.g., a television that lacks digital personal assistant functionality). The primary device may receive a context associated with a user (e.g., a user statement “show weather on my television”). The primary device, which may be enabled with the digital personal assistant functionality or access to such functionality, may invoke the digital personal assistant functionality to evaluate the context to generate a personal assistant result (e.g., local weather information). The personal assistant result may be provided from the primary device to the secondary device for presentation to the user. In this way, the secondary device appears to provide digital personal assistant functionality even though the secondary device does not comprise or have access to such functionality. | 03-10-2016 |
20160085426 | Interactive Imaging System - A method and apparatus for providing a visual aid in assembling an aircraft. A display for a portion of an aircraft is displayed on a display system in a mobile data processing system. The display on the display system comprises an image of the portion of the aircraft and hot spots over areas of the image. The hot spots correspond to installation plans for the areas over which the hot spots are located and the hot spots are selectable by user input. Information is displayed on the display system in the mobile data processing system about the installation plan for an area in the areas when a hot spot in the hot spots corresponding to the area is selected by the user input. The display of the information on the display system provides a visual aid that enables performance of an assembly operation in the area selected. | 03-24-2016 |
20160110158 | AUDIO VIDEO NAVIGATION (AVN) APPARATUS, VEHICLE, AND CONTROL METHOD OF AVN APPARATUS - An Audio Video Navigation (AVN) apparatus includes: a sound receiver configured to receive a speech from a user; a display unit configured to display a speech recognition screen in a speech recognition mode; and a controller configured to control, if the speech recognition mode is finished at a stage, the display unit to display a manipulation guide screen corresponding to the speech recognition screen displayed at the stage. | 04-21-2016 |
20160117178 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, SERVICE PROVIDING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A display control device includes a first memory, an operation-display unit, and a display controller. The first memory stores data of a normal screen and data of a simple screen. The normal screen is a screen that displays functions related to a service process provided to a user, whereas the simple screen is a screen that displays a smaller number of functions than the normal screen. The operation-display unit displays one of the normal screen and the simple screen to the user and accepts a setting operation performed by the user on a function among the displayed functions. The display controller controls the operation-display unit so that an indication recommending the user to use the simple screen is displayed in a case where every function set by the user on the normal screen is settable on the simple screen. | 04-28-2016 |
20160124588 | User Interface Functionality for Facilitating Interaction between Users and their Environments - Space interaction (SI) functionality is described herein for assisting a user in interacting with a space without unduly distracting the user. The SI functionality includes an application interface module that presents information and/or exposes functionality within a plurality of workspaces. Each workspace has a determined spatial relationship with respect to other workspaces. Further, the application interface module may detect and respond to various gestures, by which the user may move among workspaces and interact with menus and other information that are presented in those workspaces. The user's interaction with these workspaces and menus may be supplemented by various sounds generated by a sound generation module, and/or various haptic cues (e.g., vibration cues) generated by a haptic cue generation module. | 05-05-2016 |
20160124756 | KEYBOARD-ACCESSIBLE CALENDAR FOR INDIVIDUAL WITH DISABILITIES - Apparatus, methods and media for a keyboard-accessible calendar are provided. The apparatus may include, and the methods may provide, a display. The display may display a date field. The date field may receive a date input. The apparatus and methods may include a calendar layer. The calendar layer may be displayed on a screen. The calendar layer may include a pictorial calendar interface. The interface may include a plurality of dates. The apparatus may receive a set of instructions. The instructions may include a first instruction to select the date field. Upon selection of the date field, a cursor may be applied to the date field. The instructions may include a second instruction to toggle from the date field to the calendar layer. The toggling may include receiving a keystroke from the user. The toggling may include moving the focus of the cursor from the date field to the calendar layer. | 05-05-2016 |
20160132197 | BLOOD PURIFICATION DEVICE FEEDBACK METHOD - A method for providing feedback on user actions in a blood purification device is disclosed. Feedback may be provided by loading a task list defining process actions to be carried out into a processing environment of the blood purification device, wherein the task list includes at least one task assigned to a predetermined device and/or user action, selecting a set of sensors and/or detectors from sensors and/or detectors arranged in the blood purification device based on requirements of the task list, and for each task in the task list, querying the selected set of sensors and/or detectors, determining operational and/or device task states based on the sensor and/or detector outputs, and outputting a user feedback indication notifying the user on the determined task state. A blood purification device equipped with supporting hardware is arranged to carry out the method is also disclosed. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132342 | CONTEXT-BASED COMMAND SURFACING - A computing device receives a trigger to surface commands. A possible set of commands is identified and broken into categories. A category is surfaced for user interaction. | 05-12-2016 |
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20160154656 | CONTEXTUAL HELP WITHIN AN APPLICATION | 06-02-2016 |
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20160188562 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERFACE DISPLAY SCREEN MANIPULATION - A system and method for generation, modification, or manipulation of user interface display screens includes a processor storing display screen templates and instantiation data structures which reference the templates for instantiation of the respective ones of the display screen templates for a plurality of different display screens, where the templates can correspond to respective sub-screens of one or more display screens. The processor can analyze captured display screen data to determine whether the data corresponds to a previously stored one of the templates, and, responsive to a positive result of the determination, store a new instantiation data structure referencing the template to which the data is determined to correspond and otherwise generate a new template to be referenced by the instantiation data structure. Modifications and object associations to a plurality of different display screens can be effected by modification of, or association with, a single one of the templates. | 06-30-2016 |
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