Notification device for a graphical user environment
First Claim
1. A system for use with a computerized graphical user interface environment, for graphically notifying a user of an actionable event by displaying a notification on the user'"'"'s display, comprising:
- a computer system having a graphical user interface;
a server process in communication with said computer system, said server process at startup containing a set of dispatch functions, each dispatch function represents a message or notification which the server may potentially send to the user via the user interface or desktop; and
, a display agent, which identifies actionable events and uses said dispatch function to display a notification of said actionable events in the graphical user interface.
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Abstract
A system and method that provides a graphical user interface environment with a notification device. In a computer system having a graphical user environment, it is desired to have a mechanism for an application to notify a user that a process requires attention. This may be, for example, that an operation has finished, that a scheduled event has occurred, or that an application requires user intervention. In one embodiment of the invention, this notification mechanism is in the form of a notification window on the graphical environment desktop. The notification window may take the form of a ticker tape that is associated with a series of notify icons. A notify icon is an object in the graphical user desktop that is associated with an application.
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12 Claims
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1. A system for use with a computerized graphical user interface environment, for graphically notifying a user of an actionable event by displaying a notification on the user'"'"'s display, comprising:
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a computer system having a graphical user interface;
a server process in communication with said computer system, said server process at startup containing a set of dispatch functions, each dispatch function represents a message or notification which the server may potentially send to the user via the user interface or desktop; and
,a display agent, which identifies actionable events and uses said dispatch function to display a notification of said actionable events in the graphical user interface. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method of notifying a user within a graphical computer environment on a computer system of an actionable event, comprising
providing a graphical user interface; -
providing a client process running on the computer system and in communication with the Server process;
providing a server process in communication with said computer system, said server process at startup containing a set of dispatch functions, each dispatch function represents a message or notification which the server may potentially send to the user via the user interface or desktop;
intercepting those communications from the server process to the client process which require user notification and relaying them to a display agent; and
,displaying notification of such events on the graphical user interface. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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