PRESENTATION OF TASKS TO A USER

• US 20160349942A1
• Filed: 05/29/2015
• Published: 12/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated (Allen-Bradley Co., Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated (Allen-Bradley Co., Inc.)
• Inventors: Ericsson, Matthew R., Anand, Ashish, Henderson, Benjamin, Plumb-Larrick, Abigail
• Application Number:
  US14/725,722
• Publication Number:
  US 20160349942A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063112 Skill-based matching of a person or a group to a task
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06393 Score-carding, benchmarking or key performance indicator [KPI] analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06398 Performance of employee with respect to a job function

Abstract

Techniques to facilitate task performance in an industrial automation environment are disclosed herein. In at least one implementation, an organizational role of a user of a computing system is identified. A set of tasks for the user is determined based on the organizational role of the user. Relative display sizes are assigned to each task in the set of tasks based on a frequency of use of each task. Each task in the set of tasks is displayed according to their relative display sizes on a display system of the computing system.

Claims

1. One or more computer-readable storage media having program instructions stored thereon to facilitate task performance in an industrial automation environment, wherein the program instructions, when executed by a computing system, direct the computing system to at least:

identify an organizational role of a user of the computing system;

determine a set of tasks for the user based on the organizational role of the user;

assign relative display sizes to each task in the set of tasks based on a frequency of use of each task; and

display each task in the set of tasks according to their relative display sizes on a display system of the computing system.

2. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 1 wherein the program instructions further direct the computing system to observe recent usage frequency of each task in the set of tasks over a time period and update the relative display sizes assigned to each task in the set of tasks based on the recent usage frequency.

3. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 1 wherein the program instructions direct the computing system to display each task in the set of tasks according to their relative display sizes on the display system by directing the computing system to display each task as different octagon icons sized according to the relative display sizes of each task.

4. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 1 wherein the program instructions direct the computing system to assign the relative display sizes to each task in the set of tasks based on the frequency of use of each task by directing the computing system to assign larger sizes of the relative display sizes to more frequently used tasks in the set of tasks.

5. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 1 wherein the program instructions direct the computing system to display each task in the set of tasks according to their relative display sizes on the display system by directing the computing system to display tasks having larger sizes of the relative display sizes near a center of the display system.

6. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 1 wherein the set of tasks comprises a plurality of applications.

7. The one or more computer-readable storage media of claim 1 wherein the set of tasks comprises different features of one or more applications.

8. A method of operating a computing system to facilitate task performance in an industrial automation environment, the method comprising:

identifying an organizational role of a user of the computing system;

determining a set of tasks for the user based on the organizational role of the user;

assigning relative display sizes to each task in the set of tasks based on a frequency of use of each task; and

displaying each task in the set of tasks according to their relative display sizes on a display system of the computing system.

9. The method of claim 8 further comprising observing recent usage frequency of each task in the set of tasks over a time period and updating the relative display sizes assigned to each task in the set of tasks based on the recent usage frequency.

10. The method of claim 8 wherein displaying each task in the set of tasks according to their relative display sizes on the display system comprises displaying each task as different octagon icons sized according to the relative display sizes of each task.

11. The method of claim 8 wherein assigning the relative display sizes to each task in the set of tasks based on the frequency of use of each task comprises assigning larger sizes of the relative display sizes to more frequently used tasks in the set of tasks.

12. The method of claim 8 wherein displaying each task in the set of tasks according to their relative display sizes on the display system comprises displaying tasks having larger sizes of the relative display sizes near a center of the display system.

13. The method of claim 8 wherein the set of tasks comprises a plurality of applications.

14. The method of claim 8 wherein the set of tasks comprises different features of one or more applications.

15. An apparatus to facilitate task performance in an industrial automation environment, the apparatus comprising:

one or more computer-readable storage media; and

program instructions stored on the one or more computer-readable storage media that, when executed by a processing system, direct the processing system to at least;

identify an organizational role of a user of a computing system;

determine a set of tasks for the user based on the organizational role of the user;

assign relative display sizes to each task in the set of tasks based on a frequency of use of each task; and

display each task in the set of tasks according to their relative display sizes on a display system of the computing system.

16. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the program instructions further direct the processing system to observe recent usage frequency of each task in the set of tasks over a time period and update the relative display sizes assigned to each task in the set of tasks based on the recent usage frequency.

17. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the program instructions direct the processing system to display each task in the set of tasks according to their relative display sizes on the display system by directing the processing system to display each task as different octagon icons sized according to the relative display sizes of each task.

18. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the program instructions direct the processing system to assign the relative display sizes to each task in the set of tasks based on the frequency of use of each task by directing the processing system to assign larger sizes of the relative display sizes to more frequently used tasks in the set of tasks.

19. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the set of tasks comprises a plurality of applications.

20. The apparatus of claim 15 wherein the set of tasks comprises different features of one or more applications.