METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROVIDING A NOTIFICATION

• US 20150200880A1
• Filed: 01/12/2015
• Published: 07/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ChaCha Search, Inc.
• Original Assignee: ChaCha Search, Inc.
• Inventors: Jones, Scott A., O'Donnell, Eugene M, Kunstek, Terrence McKenna, Lee, Vee
• Application Number:
  US14/594,724
• Publication Number:
  US 20150200880A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/02 using automatic reactions or user delegation, e.g. automatic replies or chatbot-generated messages

Abstract

A system and method of providing a notification responsive to an event using visual modulation of a user interface is described. Visual modulation may be used to indicate a type of event, a number of events, a source of an event, etc. Visual modulation may include displacement, rotation, distortion, etc. of a UI or component thereof and may be accompanied by audible and/or haptic modulation which may mimic an action of a person.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a request from a source;

procuring an action related to the request;

notifying the source of the request of the action by modulation of a user interface at the source.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

obtaining a message to be delivered to a destination as the request;

procuring the action from the destination; and

performing the modulation based on whether the user interface is associated with operation of a pre-determined software component.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

including a temporal and spatial component in the modulation of the user interface.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

assigning modulation patterns to actions including the action; and

executing a pattern of modulation associated with the action as the notifying.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

performing a spatial modulation while persisting a prior context of the user interface.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising:

performing the spatial modulation based on a status of a user associated with the source.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

performing a spatial visual modulation as at least one of translation, scaling, rotation and distortion of geometry associated with the user interface.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprising:

including a temporal component in a spatial component of the modulation.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprising:

returning the user interface to an initial condition after a pre-determined time interval.

10. The method of claim 8 further comprising:

returning the user interface to an initial condition when an event associated with the notification occurs.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

mimicking a characteristic of a person performing the action using a spatial component of the modulation.

12. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

mimicking a characteristic of a person performing the action using a spatial modulation and a corresponding audible tone.

13. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

providing an avatar assigned to the destination associated with the action as a part of the notification.

14. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

determining a spatial modulation component based on a distribution channel associated with the request and the destination.

15. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

applying a spatial modulation to a user interface element selected based on the user interface and a distribution channel associated with the request and the destination.

16. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

presenting an alternate identifier of a user related to the action when an identifier of the user is not visible to the viewer; and

initiating playback of the response when the alternate identifier is selected.

17. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing therein a program for causing a computer to execute an operation, comprising:

receiving a request from a source;

procuring an action related to the request;

notifying the source of the request of the action by modulation of a user interface at the source.

18. A system, comprising:

a source device comprising memory, a processor and a display, sending a request, receiving an action responsive to the request and informing a user of the source device of the action by visual modulation of a user interface of the source device.

19. The system of claim 18 further comprising:

a request server device receiving the request, providing the action, and specifying a parameter of the modulation based on the action.

20. The system of claim 18 further comprising:

the source device performing the modulation based on geometric distortion or displacement of the user interface.