System and method for calling attention to a location of departure in a display

• US 20060150080A1
• Filed: 12/14/2005
• Published: 07/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Mackinlay, Jock D., Zellweger, Polle T., Chang, Bay-Wei
• Granted Patent: US 8,468,452 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/00 Animation

Abstract

A system and method that calls attention to a location of departure in a display includes and interaction system and a content presentation system. The interaction system identifies each interaction with an area in a first display. The content presentation system upon return to the first display from a second display changes the first display to draw attention to the identified area with an animation. The animation expires after a first period of time.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

an interaction system that identifies each interaction with an area in a first display; and

a content presentation system that upon return to the first display from a second display changes the first display to draw attention to the identified area with an animation, the animation expires after a first period of time.

2. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein the animation is associated with an interaction color.

3. The system as set forth in claim 2 wherein the animation comprises a change of a first color of the identified area in the display to the interaction color.

4. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein the animation is associated with an interaction descriptor.

5. The system as set forth in claim 4 wherein the animation comprises a placement of the interaction descriptor near the identified area in the display and an application of the interaction color to the interaction descriptor.

6. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein the content presentation system changes an appearance of a link in the first display with the animation upon return to the first display from a traversal to the second display using the link.

7. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein the content presentation system determines that the identified area is temporarily presented and reduces a presentation size of the identified area in the first display.

8. The system as set forth in claim 7 wherein the content presentation system initiates the reduction a first amount of time substantially after the first display is presented again after a link in the first display is traversed.

9. A method comprising:

identifying each interaction with an area in a first display; and

changing the first display to draw attention to the identified area with an animation upon return to the first display from a second display, the animation expiring after a first period of time.

10. The method as set forth in claim 9 wherein the animation is associated with an interaction color.

11. The method as set forth in claim 10 wherein the animation comprises changing a first color of the identified area in the display to the interaction color.

12. The method as set forth in claim 9 wherein the animation is associated with an interaction color.

13. The method as set forth in claim 12 wherein the animation comprises placing the interaction descriptor near the identified area in the display and applying the interaction color to the interaction descriptor.

14. The method as set forth in claim 9 wherein the changing the display further comprises changing an appearance of a link in the first display with the animation upon return to the first display from a traversal to the second display using the link.

15. The method as set forth in claim 9 wherein the changing the first display further comprises determining that the identified area is temporarily presented and reducing a presentation size of the identified area in the display.

16. The method as set forth in claim 15 wherein the changing the first display further comprises initiating the reduction a first amount of time substantially after the first display is presented again after a link in the display is traversed.

17. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions, which when executed by at least one processor, causes the processor to perform:

identifying each interaction with an area in a first display; and

changing the first display to draw attention to the identified area with an animation upon return to the first display from a second display, the animation expiring after a first period of time.

18. The medium as set forth in claim 17 wherein the animation is associated with an interaction color.

19. The medium as set forth in claim 18 wherein the animation comprises changing a first color of the identified area in the display to the interaction color.

20. The medium as set forth in claim 17 wherein the animation is associated with an interaction color.

21. The medium as set forth in claim 20 wherein the animation comprises placing the interaction descriptor near the identified area in the display and applying the interaction color to the interaction descriptor.

22. The medium as set forth in claim 17 wherein the changing the display further comprises changing an appearance of a link in the first display with the animation upon return to the first display from a traversal to the second display using the link.

23. The medium as set forth in claim 17 wherein the changing the first display further comprises determining that the identified area is temporarily presented and reducing a presentation size of the identified area in the display.

24. The medium as set forth in claim 23 wherein the changing the first display further comprises initiating the reduction a first amount of time substantially after the first display is presented again after a link in the display is traversed.