Adaptive notification modifications for touchscreen interfaces

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10990217-B2
Application number	US-201916665447-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 28, 2019
Priority date	Feb 12, 2018
Publication date	Apr 27, 2021
Grant date	Apr 27, 2021

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes modifying at least one aspect of a notification to be displayed on a first portion of a touchscreen of a device in response to a determination that a second portion of the touchscreen includes and/or overlaps with the first portion of the touchscreen. The second portion of the touchscreen os defined by a point on the touchscreen expected to be imminently touched by a user and predetermined areas of the touchscreen adjacent to and surrounding the point.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
modifying at least one aspect of a notification to be displayed on a first portion of a touchscreen of a device in response to a determination that a second portion of the touchscreen includes and/or overlaps with the first portion of the touchscreen, the second portion of the touchscreen being defined by a point on the touchscreen expected to be imminently touched by a user and predetermined areas of the touchscreen adjacent to and surrounding the point.

2. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the at least one aspect of the notification is a time in which the notification is displayed on the touchscreen, and wherein modifying the at least one aspect of the notification comprises delaying the time in which the notification is displayed on the touchscreen until after the user touches the point on the touchscreen.

3. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the at least one aspect of the notification is a format of the notification, and wherein modifying the at least one aspect of the notification comprises altering the format of the notification from a visual indication that is displayed on the touchscreen to another format that does not utilize any portion of the touchscreen.

4. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the at least one aspect of the notification is a device on which the notification is output, and wherein modifying the at least one aspect of the notification comprises outputting the notification to a second computing device provided that the notification is not displayed on the touchscreen of the device.

5. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the at least one aspect of the notification is interaction priority of the notification when displayed on the touchscreen, and wherein modifying the at least one aspect of the notification comprises selectively causing a currently-displayed interactive touch component in the second portion to have priority over the notification.

6. The method as recited in claim 5 , wherein the notification is selectable over the interactive touch component in response to a long touch and/or a heavy touch.

7. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the at least one aspect of the notification is placement of the notification when displayed on the touchscreen, and wherein modifying the at least one aspect of the notification comprises modifying the placement of the notification from the first portion to a third portion of the touchscreen, wherein the third portion of the touchscreen does not overlap a currently-displayed interactive touch component in the second portion.

8. The method as recited in claim 7 , wherein the third portion of the touchscreen is adjacent to the second portion of the touchscreen.

9. The method as recited in claim 7 , wherein the third portion of the touchscreen is as far from the second portion of the touchscreen as possible.

10. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the predetermined areas of the touchscreen adjacent to the point have a size that is configured to account for a surface area of the touchscreen that is impacted by a fingertip of the user.

11. The method as recited in claim 1 , comprising determining a location of a fingertip of the user, a velocity of the fingertip, and a trajectory of the fingertip to determine the point on the touchscreen to be imminently touched by the user.

12. A computer program product, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the embodied program instructions being executable by a processing circuit to cause the processing circuit to:
modify, by the processing circuit, at least one aspect of a notification to be displayed on a first portion of a touchscreen of a device in response to a determination that a second portion of the touchscreen includes and/or overlaps with the first portion of the touchscreen, the second portion of the touchscreen being defined by a point on the touchscreen expected to be imminently touched by a user and predetermined areas of the touchscreen adjacent to and surrounding the point.

13. The computer program product as recited in claim 12 , wherein the at least one aspect of the notification is a time in which the notification is displayed on the touchscreen, and wherein the embodied program instructions that cause the processing circuit to modify the at least one aspect of the notification further cause the processing circuit to delay the time in which the notification is displayed on the touchscreen until after the user touches the point on the touchscreen.

14. The computer program product as recited in claim 12 , wherein the at least one aspect of the notification is a format of the notification, and wherein the embodied program instructions that cause the processing circuit to modify the at least one aspect of the notification further cause the processing circuit to alter the format of the notification from a visual indication that is displayed on the touchscreen to another format that does not utilize any portion of the touchscreen.

15. The computer program product as recited in claim 12 , wherein the at least one aspect of the notification is a device on which the notification is output, and wherein the embodied program instructions that cause the processing circuit to modify the at least one aspect of the notification further cause the processing circuit to output the notification to a second computing device provided that the notification is not displayed on the touchscreen of the device.

16. The computer program product as recited in claim 12 , wherein the at least one aspect of the notification is interaction priority of the notification when displayed on the touchscreen, and wherein the embodied program instructions that cause the processing circuit to modify the at least one aspect of the notification further cause the processing circuit to selectively cause a currently-displayed interactive touch component in the second portion to have priority over the notification.

17. A system, comprising:
a processing circuit and logic integrated with and/or executable by the processing circuit, the logic when executed by the processing circuit causes the processing circuit to:
modify at least one aspect of a notification to be displayed on a first portion of a touchscreen of a device in response to a determination that a second portion of the touchscreen includes and/or overlaps with the first portion of the touchscreen, the second portion of the touchscreen being defined by a point on the touchscreen expected to be imminently touched by a user and predetermined areas of the touchscreen adjacent to and surrounding the point.

18. The system as recited in claim 17 , wherein the at least one aspect of the notification is a time in which the notification is displayed on the touchscreen, and wherein the logic that causes the processing circuit to modify the at least one aspect of the notification further causes the processing circuit to delay the time in which the notification is displayed on the touchscreen until after the user touches the point on the touchscreen.

19. The system as recited in claim 17 , wherein the at least one aspect of the notification is a format of the notification, and wherein the logic that causes the processing circuit to modify the at least one aspect of the notification further causes the processing circuit to alter the format of the notification from a visual indication that is displayed on the touchscreen to another format that does not utilize any port

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Liu Su
• Rozner Eric J
• Hwang Inseok
• Agarwal Kanak Behari

Classifications

• G06F2203/04101

  2.5D-digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface and also measures the distance of the input means within a short range in the Z direction, possibly with a separate measurement setup · CPC title

• G06F3/0416 Primary

  Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers · CPC title

• G06F3/04883 Primary

  for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text · CPC title