Personalizing Default Settings on a GUI

• US 20090064001A1
• Filed: 08/30/2007
• Published: 03/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Robbins, Nicole Summers
• Application Number:
  US11/847,888
• Publication Number:
  US 20090064001A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/762
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

A user is afforded the ability to set permanent default settings on a Graphical User Interface (GUI). When the user holds down a selector for a GUI setting for a predetermined period of time, or for a predetermined number of times, that selected GUI setting is set as the default setting for that user.

Claims

1. A computer-implementable method for personalizing default setting in a Graphical User Interface (GUI), the computer-implementable method comprising:

detecting, from a user, a user input that selects a GUI setting for a GUI function;

determining that the user input has been sustained uninterrupted for more than a pre-defined period of time; and

in response to determining that the user input has been sustained uninterrupted for more than the pre-defined period of time, setting the GUI setting as a permanent default setting for the user.

2. The computer-implementable method of claim 1, wherein the user input is performed by the user selecting the GUI setting without leaving a current screen.

3. The computer-implementable method of claim 2, wherein the user input results from the user engaging a user input device while a cursor is positioned over a GUI function setting on the current screen.

4. The computer-implementable method of claim 3, wherein the user input device is a left click on a mouse.

5. The computer-implementable method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining that the user input has been input more than a pre-determined number of times within the pre-defined period of time; and

in response to determining that the user input has been input more than a pre-determined number of times within the pre-defined period of time, setting the GUI setting as the permanent default setting for the user.

6. The computer-implementable method of claim 1, wherein the GUI is for a first application that is utilized by multiple second applications, the permanent default setting for the first application is applied to all of the multiple second applications.

7. The computer-implementable method of claim 1, wherein the user input is from a check box displayed on the GUI.

8. The computer-implementable method of claim 1, wherein the user input is from a dropdown selection displayed on the GUI.

9. The computer-implementable method of claim 1, wherein the user input is from a user clicking a twisty, wherein clicking the twisty denotes a level of expansion setting of section in a document that is displayed on the GUI.

10. The computer-implementable method of claim 1, wherein the user input is a cursor focus on the GUI.

11. The computer-implementable method of claim 10, wherein the GUI is for an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), and wherein the permanent default setting for the user places the cursor focus in a text editor window in the IDE.

12. The computer-implementable method of claim 10, wherein the GUI is for a webpage, and wherein the permanent default setting for the user places the cursor focus in a non-Uniform Resource Locator (URL) window on the webpage.

13. A system comprising:

a processor;

a data bus coupled to the processor;

a memory coupled to the data bus; and

a computer-usable medium embodying computer program code, the computer program code comprising instructions executable by the processor and configured for personalizing default settings in a Graphical User Interface (GUI) by performing the steps of;

detecting, from a user, a user input that selects a GUI setting for a GUI function;

determining that the user input has been sustained uninterrupted for more than a pre-defined period of time; and

in response to determining that the user input has been sustained uninterrupted for more than the pre-defined period of time, setting the GUI setting as a permanent default setting for the user.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the user input is performed by the user selecting the GUI setting without leaving a current screen.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the instructions are further configured for:

determining that the user input has been input more than a pre-determined number of times within the pre-defined period of time; and

in response to determining that the user input has been input more than a pre-determined number of times within the pre-defined period of time, setting the GUI setting as the permanent default setting for the user.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the user input is a cursor focus on the GUI, and wherein the GUI is for an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), and wherein the permanent default setting for the user places the cursor focus in a text editor window in the IDE.

17. A computer-readable medium encoded with a computer program, the computer program comprising computer executable instructions configured for:

detecting, from a user, a user input that selects a GUI setting for a GUI function;

determining that the user input has been sustained uninterrupted for more than a pre-defined period of time; and

in response to determining that the user input has been sustained uninterrupted for more than the pre-defined period of time, setting the GUI setting as a permanent default setting for the user.

18. The computer-implementable method of claim 17, wherein the user input is performed by the user selecting the GUI setting without leaving a current screen.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the computer-usable medium is a component of a remote server, and wherein the computer executable instructions are deployable to a local computer from the remote server.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 17, wherein the computer executable instructions are capable of being provided by a service provider to a customer on an on-demand basis.