Event bookmarking

• US 20060101351A1
• Filed: 11/05/2004
• Published: 05/11/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Cowham, Adrian
• Application Number:
  US10/981,654
• Publication Number:
  US 20060101351A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/783
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0604 using filtering, e.g. reduction of information by using priority, element types, position or time

Abstract

A method for temporary visual indication of received items in a list and a corresponding system therefore are described. The method includes receiving an item to be presented in a list to be displayed to a user, applying a temporary visual indicator to the received item in the list; and removing the temporary visual indicator from each item in the list having a visual indicator applied, in response to user interaction with the list.

Claims

1. A method for temporary visual indication of added items in a list, comprising the steps of:

receiving an item to be presented in a list to be displayed to a user;

adding the item to the list to be displayed to the user;

applying a temporary visual indicator to the received item in the list; and

removing the temporary visual indicator from each item in the list having a visual indicator applied, in response to user interaction with the list.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

receiving an other item to be presented in the list; and

applying the temporary visual indicator to the received other item in the list,

wherein the receiving an other item step and the applying the temporary visual indicator to the received other item step are performed prior to user interaction with the list.

3. The method of claim 2, the applied temporary visual indicator of the received other item being the same as the temporary visual indicator of the received item in the list.

4. The method of claim 1, the temporary visual indicator is highlighting.

5. The method of claim 1, the temporary visual indicator is a color attribute.

6. The method of claim 1, the temporary visual indicator is a text attribute.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein user interaction is solely with the list.

8. The method of claim 1, the temporary visual indicator is removed in response to a first user input affecting the list.

9. The method of claim 1, user interaction with the list is selecting an item in the list.

10. The method of claim 1, user interaction with the list is modifying a list attribute.

11. The method of claim 10, modifying a list attribute is filtering the item in the list.

12. The method of claim 10, modifying a list attribute is sorting the list.

13. The method of claim 1, the received item is an event.

14. The method of claim 13, the event is a network event.

15. A system of visually indicating items in a list, comprising:

a processor;

a memory having instructions causing the processor to;

drive a display to display an item in a list responsive to receiving an item to be displayed to a user;

apply a visual indicator to the received item to be displayed in the list; and

remove the visual indicator from the received item to be displayed in the list responsive to user interaction with the list.

16. The system of claim 15, the memory further comprising instructions causing the processor to:

(a) receive an other item to be displayed in the list; and

(b) apply the visual indicator to the other item displayed in the list, wherein the steps (a) and (b) are performed prior to user interaction with the displayed list.

17. The system of claim 15, the temporary visual indicator is at least one of highlighting, a color attribute, and a text attribute of the item in the list.

18. The system of claim 15, the memory further comprising instructions causing the processor to remove the temporary visual indicator from all items having the temporary visual indicator applied in response to a first user input affecting the list.

19. The system of claim 15, the user interaction with the list is at least one of selecting an item in the list and modifying a list attribute.

20. The system of claim 15, further comprising:

a communication interface operatively connected with the processor, and

wherein the received item is an event message received via the communication interface.