Augmenting user interface with additional information

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9218167-B2
Application number	US-201213591742-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 22, 2012
Priority date	Aug 22, 2012
Publication date	Dec 22, 2015
Grant date	Dec 22, 2015

Abstract

Embodiments of methods, systems, and storage medium for enhancing a user interface of an application with additional information are disclosed herein. In one instance, the method may include a computing device detecting an event associated with an application executing on the computing device, a container of a user interface of the application, or at least one object of the container; determining additional information to augment basic information associated with the at least one object of the container of the user interface of the application; and augmenting the basic information of the at least one object in a display of the container with the additional information or one or more indicators corresponding to the additional information. The additional information is associated with the object. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. At least one non-transitory computing device-readable storage medium having executable instructions stored thereon that cause a computing device, in response to execution by the computing device, to:
detect an event associated with at least one object of a container of a user interface of an application executing on the computing device, wherein the event is associated with a first relevance level; and
in response to a detection of the event, determine additional information to augment basic information associated with the at least one object of the container, wherein the additional information is associated with the at least one object, wherein the object was present in the user interface prior to the detection of the event; and
switch from a regular mode of display of the at least one object to an enhanced mode of display of the object, wherein to display in the enhanced mode includes to augment the basic information of the at least one object in a display of the container with the additional information or one or more indicators corresponding to the additional information, and to de-emphasize, using visual indicators, at least another one of the objects having a second relevance level, wherein the first relevance level is higher in relevance than the second relevance level, wherein to de-emphasize includes to make a first name of the at least another one of the objects appear smaller than a second name of the at least one object.

2. The computing device-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the executable instructions that cause a computing device to augment the basic information associated with the at least one object further cause the computing device, in response to execution by the computing device, to change behavior associated with the display of the at least one object.

3. The computing device-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the executable instructions that cause a computing device, in response to execution by the computing device, to determine additional information further cause the computing device, in response to execution by the computing device, to collect information from at least one of a local information resource or a connected information resource, wherein the local information resource is associated with the application or a locally accessible data store and wherein the connected information resource is accessible by the computing device via a computer network.

4. The computing device-readable storage medium of claim 3 , wherein the connected information resource includes at least one of one or more social networking resources or a server accessible by the computing device.

5. The computing device-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the application comprises an email application, the container comprises a pane, the at least one object comprises an email folder, and the event comprises an email message.

6. The computing device-readable storage medium of claim 5 , wherein the additional information includes one or more attributes associated with the at least one email message, the one or more attributes including indication of importance of the email message, a name of a sender of the email message, subject information included in a subject line of the email message, or content information associated with content of the email message.

7. The computing device-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein the application is a music player application, wherein the container includes at least one playlist associated with the music player application, wherein the at least one object comprises a media item on the at least one playlist, and wherein the event includes switching a display of the at least one playlist from a regular mode to an enhanced mode.

8. The computing device-readable storage medium of claim 7 , wherein the additional information includes at least one of media information associated with the media item or functional characteristic associated with the media item.

9. The computing device-readable storage medium of claim 8 , wherein the media information includes user information associated with a user of the media item and wherein the functional characteristic includes a tempo measurement of the media item.

10. A computing device comprising:
a processor; and
a user interface enhancement application operated by the processor, to:
detect an event associated with at least one object of a container of a user interface of an application executing on the computing device, wherein the object was present in the user interface prior to the detection of the event, wherein the event is associated with a first relevance level; and
in response to detection, determine additional information to augment basic information associated with the at least one object of the container of the user interface of the application, wherein the additional information is associated with the at least one object; and
switch from a regular mode of display of the at least one object to an enhanced mode of display of the object, wherein to display in the enhanced mode includes to augment the basic information of the at least one object in a display of the container with the additional information or one or more indicators corresponding to the additional information, and to de-emphasize, using visual indicators, at least another one of the objects having a second relevance level, wherein the first relevance level is higher in relevance than the second relevance level, wherein to de-emphasize includes to make a first name of the at least another one of the objects appear smaller than a second name of the at least one object.

11. The computing device of claim 10 , wherein the user interface enhancement application is further operated by the processor to change behavior associated with the display of the at least one object.

12. The computing device of claim 10 , wherein the user interface enhancement application is further operated by the processor to collect the additional information from at least one of a local information resource or a connected information resource.

13. The computing device of claim 10 , wherein the event associated with the application includes at least one of receipt of an email message or access of the at least one object, wherein the object is an email folder and the application is an email application.

14. The computing device of claim 13 , wherein the additional information includes one or more attributes associated with the at least one email message, the one or more attributes including indication of importance of the email message, a name of a sender of the email message, subject information included in a subject line of the email message, or content information associated with content of the email message.

15. The computing device of claim 12 , wherein connected information resource includes a Web site and wherein the additional information comprises content associated with the Web site.

16. The computing device of claim 10 , wherein the application is a music player application, wherein the container includes at least one playlist associated with the music player application, wherein the at least one object comprises a media item on the at least one playlist, and wherein the event includes switching a display of the at least one playlist from a regular mode to an enhanced mode.

17. The computing device of claim 16 , wherein the additional information includes at least one of social information associated with the media item or functional characteristic associated with the media item.

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Assignees

• Wilson Darren P
• Richards Nicholas R
• Bilgen Aras
• Hohndel Dirk
• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Wilson Darren P
• Richards Nicholas R
• Bilgen Aras
• Hohndel Dirk

Classifications

• G06F9/451

  Execution arrangements for user interfaces · CPC title

• G06F8/38 Primary

  for implementing user interfaces · CPC title

• G06F9/542

  Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications · CPC title