GENERATION OF MENU PRESENTATION RELATIVE TO A GIVEN MENU ORIENTATION

• US 20080244448A1
• Filed: 08/07/2007
• Published: 10/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP SE
• Inventors: Latzina, Markus, Goering, Katharina
• Application Number:
  US11/835,311
• Publication Number:
  US 20080244448A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/810
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/233 including a pointing device, e.g. roller key, track ball, rocker switch or joystick constructional details of pointing devices per se G06F3/033
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72472 wherein the items are sorted according to specific criteria, e.g. frequency of use

Abstract

Methods are disclosed for a computational machine presentation including an origination point for a user, re-arranging a first selectable target more likely to be selected first, to a presentation nearer the origination point. The presentation format persists for any given user across a variety of computational machines, thus minimizing the effort for a given user in terms of cross computational-machine transfer and in terms of an on the average shortened navigational distance for any of the computational machines. The persistent format is consistent for cross computational-machine transfer, and this consistency coincides with a systematic decrease in navigational distance.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

in a first computational machine presentation including a first hardware context and including an origination point for a user, re-arranging a first selectable target more likely to be selected first, to a presentation nearer the origination point; and

in a subsequent computational machine presentation and including the origination point for the user, presenting the first selectable target similarly as in the first hardware context.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the subsequent computational machine presentation includes a subsequent hardware context.

3. The method of claim 1, further including in a subsequent hardware context and including the origination point for the user, presenting to a subsequent user, the first selectable target differently as in the first hardware context.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the subsequent computational machine presentation includes a subsequent hardware context, the method further including the origination point for the user, presenting the first selectable target differently as in the first hardware context.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein a user first domain is recognized for the first hardware context, and wherein the user first domain is used between the first hardware context and the subsequent hardware context.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein a user first domain is recognized for the first hardware context, and wherein a user second domain is recognized between the first hardware context and the subsequent hardware context.

7. The method of claim 1, further including recognizing a first user relationship in connection with the user domain, the first hardware context and the subsequent hardware context.

8. The method of claim 1, further including:

first recognizing a first user relationship in connection with the user domain, the first hardware context and the subsequent hardware context; and

subsequently recognizing a subsequent user relationship in connection with the user domain, the first hardware context and the subsequent hardware context.

9. A method comprising:

in a presentation for a first computational machine including an origination point for a user, re-arranging a first selectable target more likely to be selected first, to a presentation nearer the origination point; and

in a subsequent presentation for a subsequent computational machine including the origination point for the user, presenting the first selectable target nearer the origination point, and wherein the first computational machine includes a first hardware context and the subsequent computational machine includes a subsequent hardware context that is different from the first hardware context.

10. The method of claim 9, further including a second selectable target, the method including re-arranging a second selectable target less likely to be selected first, to a presentation nearer the origination point, but wherein the first selectable target is re-arranged to a presentation nearer the origination point than the second selectable target.

11. The method of claim 9, further including monitoring selection likelihood of the first selectable target and a second selectable target;

and when the second selectable target becomes more likely to be selected than the first selectable target, the method further includes;

re-arranging the second selectable target to a presentation nearer the origination point; and

re-arranging the first selectable target to a presentation less near the origination point than the second selectable target.

12. The method of claim 9, further including a second selectable target and a third selectable target, the method including:

re-arranging a second selectable target less likely to be selected first, to a presentation nearer the origination point; and

re-arranging a third selectable target less likely to be selected second, to a presentation nearer the origination point, but wherein the second selectable target is re-arranged to a presentation nearer the origination point than the third selectable target.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein re-arranging the first selectable target more likely to be selected first to a presentation nearer the origination point, includes the compiling a list of visited data-access locations;

identifying data-access locations that are visited more than once;

presenting the visited data-access locations as a navigational control record including selectable target.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein re-arranging the first selectable target includes retaining the presentation, but selecting the first selectable target with a generic user command.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein the computational machine is a second computational machine, and wherein re-arranging the first selectable target is derived from instructions for a first computational machine, wherein in the first computational machine, the first selectable target is originally presented nearer an origination point.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein re-arranging the first selectable target is carried out in a spatial relationship to the origination point for a visual presentation.

17. The method of claim 9, wherein re-arranging the first selectable target is carried out in a auditory relationship to the origination point for an audio presentation.

18. The method of claim 9, wherein re-arranging the first selectable target is carried out in a tactile-sequential relationship to the origination point for a haptic presentation. wherein presenting the navigational control record is done by presenting a most recently visited data-access location as a prominent selectable target.

19. A machine-readable medium embodying instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to:

in a computational machine presentation for a first hardware context including an origination point for a user, re-arranging a first selectable target more likely to be selected first, to a presentation nearer the origination point.

20. The machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the instructions when executed by a subsequent machine, cause the computational machine presentation to include the origination point for the user, and to present the first selectable target similarly as in the first hardware context.

21. The machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the instructions when executed by a subsequent machine, are executed as a subsequent computational machine presentation that includes a subsequent hardware context.

22. The machine-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the instructions when executed by a subsequent machine, including in a subsequent hardware context and including the origination point for the user, present to a subsequent user, the first selectable target differently as in the first hardware context.

23. A computing system comprising:

memory having a repository with a set of instructions that, when executed, cause a computing machine to;

in a computational machine presentation for a first hardware context including an origination point for a user, re-arranging a first selectable target more likely to be selected first, to a presentation nearer the origination point; and

in a subsequent hardware context, emulating the computational machine presentation from the first hardware context.

24. The computing system of claim 23, wherein the instructions when executed in a subsequent hardware context, cause the computational machine presentation to include the origination point for the user, and to present the first selectable target similarly as in the first hardware context.

25. The computing system of claim 23, wherein the hardware context is selected from a mobile machine, a desktop machine, and a laptop machine.

26. The computing system of claim 23, wherein the computational machine presentation is selected from a graphical user interface, an audio user interface, a tactile/motile user interface, and combinations thereof.