Adaptive notification modifications for touchscreen interfaces

• US 10,585,525 B2
• Filed: 02/12/2018
• Issued: 03/10/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Liu, Su, Rozner, Eric J., Hwang, Inseok, Agarwal, Kanak Behari
• Primary Examiner(s): Bolotin, Dmitriy
• Application Number:
  US15/894,784
• Publication Number:
  US 20190250755A1
• Time in Patent Office: 757 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04101 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 Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes determining that a notification is to be displayed on a first portion of a touchscreen of a first computing device. The method also includes determining a point on a surface of the touchscreen in which a user of the first computing device intends to imminently touch the touchscreen. Also, the method includes determining whether a second portion of the touchscreen includes a currently-displayed interactive touch component, the second portion of the touchscreen being defined by the point and predetermined areas of the touchscreen adjacent to and surrounding the point. Moreover, the method includes modifying at least one aspect of the notification in response to a determination that the second portion of the touchscreen includes and/or overlaps with the first portion of the touchscreen. Additional embodiments for adaptively modifying notification settings for implementation on a touchscreen display are also described.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

determining that a notification is to be displayed on a first portion of a touchscreen of a first computing device;

determining a point on a surface of the touchscreen in which a user of the first computing device intends to imminently touch the touchscreen;

determining whether a second portion of the touchscreen includes a currently-displayed interactive touch component, the second portion of the touchscreen being defined by the point and predetermined areas of the touchscreen adjacent to and surrounding the point; and

modifying at least one aspect of the notification in response to a determination that the second portion of the touchscreen includes and/or overlaps with the first portion of the touchscreen.

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 surface of 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 first computing 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 the interactive touch component 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 with the interactive touch component.

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, further 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 surface of the touchscreen in which the user intends to imminently touch the touchscreen.

12. A computer program product, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, wherein the computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se, the embodied program instructions being executable by a processing circuit to cause the processing circuit to:

determine, by the processing circuit, that a notification is to be displayed on a first portion of a touchscreen of a first computing device;

determine, by the processing circuit, a point on a surface of the touchscreen in which a user of the first computing device intends to imminently touch the touchscreen;

determine, by the processing circuit, whether a second portion of the touchscreen includes a currently-displayed interactive touch component, the second portion of the touchscreen being defined by the point and predetermined areas of the touchscreen adjacent to and surrounding the point; and

modify, by the processing circuit, at least one aspect of the notification in response to a determination that the second portion of the touchscreen includes and/or overlaps with the first portion of the touchscreen.

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 surface of 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 first computing 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 the interactive touch component 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;

determine that a notification is to be displayed on a first portion of a touchscreen of a first computing device;

determine a point on a surface of the touchscreen in which a user of the first computing device intends to imminently touch the touchscreen;

determine whether a second portion of the touchscreen includes a currently-displayed interactive touch component, the second portion of the touchscreen being defined by the point and predetermined areas of the touchscreen adjacent to and surrounding the point; and

modify at least one aspect of the notification in response to a determination that the second portion of the touchscreen includes and/or overlaps with the first portion of the touchscreen.

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 surface of 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 portion of the touchscreen.

20. The system as recited in claim 17, wherein the at least one aspect of the notification is interaction priority of the notification when 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 selectively cause the interactive touch component to have priority over the notification.