POSITIONING AND RENDERING NOTIFICATION HERALD BASED ON USER'S FOCUS OF ATTENTION AND ACTIVITY

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate a computer user to efficiently access to electronic notifications while minimizing disruption in the context of ongoing tasks.;SOLUTION: The notification system includes visual information heralds that provide summarizations of notifications to the users. An information controller considers the importance or urgency of contents and a user's current and/or recent activities in decisions about the rendering and positioning of the information herald on one or a plurality of display screens in order to facilitate user processing of the summarized notifications with minimal disruption to ongoing tasks.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT