System and process for providing dynamic communication access and information awareness in an interactive peripheral display
First Claim
1. A system for automatically providing peripheral awareness of information of interest to a first user, comprising:
- representing the information of interest with at least one ticket, each ticket comprising a customizable dynamic encapsulated object;
using at least one viewer for defining how the information of interest represented by each ticket is displayed;
pairing at least one viewer with each ticket; and
hosting at least one ticket/viewer pairs in at least one container on a display device, wherein each ticket/viewer pair is represented by a thumbnail displayed in one of the containers.
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Abstract
The system and method of the present invention provides peripheral awareness of information to a user. The information to be provided is either determined automatically, or specified by the user. Once the information to be provided is determined or specified, it is automatically tracked or watched via at least one conventional communications interface for accessing one or more conventional communications sources. Current information is then automatically dynamically provided in an interactive peripheral display which minimizes any potential distraction to the user. Determining or specifying, tracking or watching, and providing the information is accomplished using at least one customizable dynamic encapsulated object, a “ticket,” that when paired with a “viewer,” provides peripheral awareness of information to the user. Further, in one embodiment, the tickets are sharable among users, and may be copied, cut, pasted, saved, transmitted, dragged and dropped from web pages, etc., like any other electronic file using conventional techniques.
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65 Claims
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1. A system for automatically providing peripheral awareness of information of interest to a first user, comprising:
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representing the information of interest with at least one ticket, each ticket comprising a customizable dynamic encapsulated object;
using at least one viewer for defining how the information of interest represented by each ticket is displayed;
pairing at least one viewer with each ticket; and
hosting at least one ticket/viewer pairs in at least one container on a display device, wherein each ticket/viewer pair is represented by a thumbnail displayed in one of the containers. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, 60, 61)
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37. A method for providing dynamic objects for automatically providing dynamically updated information to a user, comprising:
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creating at least one ticket having a definition of information to be tracked and a definition of how the tracked information is to be displayed;
automatically transferring at least one ticket to a user computing device;
automatically tracking the information defined by each ticket from the user computing device via a communications interface;
dynamically retrieving the tracked information; and
providing the retrieved information to the user.
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47. A computer-readable medium having computer executable instructions for automatically tracking the availability of at least one entity, said computer executable instructions comprising:
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creating at least one dynamic encapsulated object for tracking the availability of each entity;
tracking the availability of each entity over time via at least one communications pathway, and compiling the tracked information for each entity over time;
dynamically providing a real-time availability status for each entity based on the tracked availability information; and
providing a historical availability for each entity based on the compiled availability information.
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58. A system for automatically providing peripheral awareness of information of interest, comprising:
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representing the information of interest with at least one ticket, each ticket comprising a customizable dynamic encapsulated object;
using at least one viewer for defining how the information of interest represented by each ticket is displayed;
pairing at least one viewer with each ticket;
hosting at least one ticket/viewer pairs in at least one container on a display device, wherein each ticket/viewer pair is represented by a thumbnail displayed in one of the containers;
interacting with the information of interest by using at least one service for each ticket; and
providing the information of interest in an interactive persistent display.
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62. A system for automatically providing peripheral awareness of information of interest to a user, comprising:
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representing the information of interest with at least one ticket, each ticket comprising a customizable dynamic encapsulated object;
using at least one viewer for defining how the information of interest represented by each ticket is displayed;
pairing at least one viewer with each ticket; and
hosting at least one ticket/viewer pairs in at least one container on a display device, wherein each ticket/viewer pair is represented by a thumbnail;
displaying each thumbnail in one of the containers; and
providing at least one actionable tooltip window in response to selection of any thumbnail. - View Dependent Claims (63, 64, 65)
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