DISCREETLY DISPLAYING CONTEXTUALLY RELEVANT INFORMATION

• US 20140181741A1
• Filed: 12/24/2012
• Published: 06/26/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/24/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Apacible, Johnson, Paek, Tim, Encarnacin, Mark J., Herring, Allen, Wong, Woon Kiat
• Application Number:
  US13/726,237
• Publication Number:
  US 20140181741A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/810
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting

Abstract

The claimed subject matter provides a method for receiving and displaying contextually relevant information to a user. The method includes receiving automatically-updated contextually relevant information at a display device. The contextually relevant information includes information that is at least in part associated with the user. The display device then displays the contextually relevant information discreetly to the user.

Claims

1. A method for receiving and displaying contextually relevant information to a user, the method comprising:

receiving automatically-updated contextually relevant information at a display device, the contextually relevant information including information that is at least in part associated with the user; and

displaying the contextually relevant information discreetly to the user.

2. The method recited in claim 1, wherein the contextually relevant information is displayed via a glanceable user interface.

3. The method recited in claim 1, wherein the contextually relevant information is displayed via a bi-stable display.

4. The method recited in claim 1, wherein various items of the contextually relevant information are displayed via readily observable icons.

5. The method recited in claim 1, wherein the contextually relevant information is derived from at least one of:

a current time, an activity engaged in by the user, a current location of the user, and data stored in a user account.

6. The method recited in claim 5, wherein the contextually relevant information relates to a scheduled event.

7. The method recited in claim 5, wherein the contextually relevant information includes an at least partially predefined message and a prompt to the user to approve transmission of the at least partially predefined message.

8. The method recited in claim 1, wherein the contextually relevant information includes a set of prompts, each prompt in the set being provided at a preselected time during a meeting to reduce time overruns.

9. The method recited in claim 1, wherein the contextually relevant information includes a reminder to attend a meeting, the method further comprising:

receiving a mood indication from the user during the meeting; and

sending the received mood indication to a presenter at the meeting.

10. A display device for receiving and displaying contextually relevant information to a user, the display device comprising:

a display module;

a processing unit;

a system memory, wherein the system memory comprises code configured to direct the processing unit to;

receive contextually relevant information, the contextually relevant information including information that is automatically derived from at least a location of the user and schedule data associated with the user; and

cause the contextually relevant information to be displayed on the display module,

wherein the contextually relevant information is displayed to the user discreetly.

11. The display device recited in claim 10, wherein the contextually relevant information is displayed via a glanceable user interface.

12. The display device recited in claim 10, wherein the display module includes a bi-stable display module and the contextually relevant information is displayed via the bi-stable display module.

13. The display device recited in claim 10, wherein various items of the contextually relevant information are displayed via readily observable icons.

14. The display device recited in claim 10, wherein the contextually relevant information is derived from at least one of:

a current time, a current location of the user, and data stored in a user account.

15. The display device recited in claim 14, wherein the contextually relevant information relates to a scheduled event.

16. The display device recited in claim 14, wherein the contextually relevant information includes an at least partially predefined message and a prompt to the user to approve transmission of the at least partially predefined message.

17. The display device recited in claim 10, wherein the display device is a wearable article.

18. The display device recited in claim 10, wherein the contextually relevant information includes a set of prompts, each prompt in the set being provided at a preselected time during a meeting to reduce time overruns.

19. The display device recited in claim 10, wherein the contextually relevant information includes a reminder to attend a meeting, and wherein the code is the system memory is further configured to direct the processing unit to receive a mood indication from the user during the meeting.

20. A method for displaying contextually relevant information to a user, the method comprising:

accessing user account information to determine a time of a scheduled event in a calendar associated with the user;

automatically generating reminder information based at least in part on the determined time of the scheduled event;

receiving the automatically-generated reminder information at a display device; and

displaying the automatically-generated reminder information discreetly to the user on a bi-stable display.