ASSISTING A USER WITH EFFICIENT NAVIGATION BETWEEN A SELECTION OF ENTRIES WITH ELEMENTS OF INTEREST TO THE USER WITHIN A STREAM OF ENTRIES

• US 20170153772A1
• Filed: 02/16/2016
• Published: 06/01/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: COX, SUSAN M., JANAKIRAMAN, JANANI, LU, FANG, LIU, SU
• Granted Patent: US 10,444,973 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking

Abstract

Activity by a particular user accessing content within an interface is monitored to identify points of interest within the one or more interfaces. Each of the points of interest identified within interface is mapped to a separate content element displayed within the interface to form a model correlating each separate content element with a user interest of the particular user. Based on the model, within a stream accessed for review by the particular user, a flow of a selection of entries of interest that meet the user interest is identified from among multiple entries in the stream. A separate selectable navigation breakpoint is selectively displayed with each of the selection of entries of interest within the stream, wherein selection of each separate selectable navigation breakpoint steps through the flow of the selection of entries of interest only.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

monitoring activity by a particular user accessing content within one or more interfaces to identify a plurality of points of interest within the one or more interfaces;

mapping each of the plurality of points of interest to a separate content element displayed within the one or more interfaces to form a model correlating each separate content element with a user interest;

identifying based on the model, within a stream accessed for review by the particular user within the one or more interfaces, a flow of a selection of entries of interest that meet the user interest from among a plurality of entries within the stream; and

selectively displaying a separate selectable navigation breakpoint with each of the selection of entries of interest within the stream, wherein selection of each separate selectable navigation breakpoint steps through the flow of the selection of entries of interest only.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein monitoring activity by a particular user accessing content within one or more interfaces to identify a plurality of points of interest within the one or more interfaces further comprises:

monitoring an eye gaze of a user to identify the plurality of points of interest.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein identifying based on the model, within a stream accessed for review by the particular user within the one or more interfaces, a flow of a selection of entries of interest that meet the user interest from among a plurality of entries within the stream further comprises:

identifying the flow of the selection of entries of interest that meet the user interest from among the plurality of entries comprising nested content entries each assigned to one of a plurality of levels.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein selectively displaying a separate selectable navigation breakpoint with each of the selection of entries of interest within the stream, wherein selection of each separate selectable navigation breakpoint steps through the flow of the selection of entries of interest only further comprises:

selectively providing the separate selectable navigation breakpoint with a selectable function to navigate into one or more lower tier entries, from among the plurality of entries, nested under a current entry associated with the separate selectable navigation breakpoint.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein selectively displaying a separate selectable navigation breakpoint with each of the selection of entries of interest within the stream, wherein selection of each separate selectable navigation breakpoint steps through the flow of the selection of entries of interest only further comprises:

selectively providing the separate selectable navigation breakpoint with a selectable function to navigate out of one or more lower tier entries, from among the plurality of entries, nested under a current entry associated with the separate selectable navigation breakpoint, and up to the current entry.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein selectively displaying a separate selectable navigation breakpoint with each of the selection of entries of interest within the stream, wherein selection of each separate selectable navigation breakpoint steps through the flow of the selection of entries of interest only further comprises:

selectively providing the separate selectable navigation breakpoint with a selectable function to navigate over one or more top level entries from among the plurality of entries to a next entry associated with a next selectable navigation breakpoint in the flow of the selection of entries of interest.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein identifying based on the model, within a stream accessed for review by the particular user within the one or more interfaces, a flow of a selection of entries of interest that meet the user interest from among a plurality of entries within the stream, further comprises:

receiving the stream for review by the particular user from a social networking services selected from a group consisting of instant messaging, short message services, blog, website, community, news feed, email, voice over internet protocol, and software phones.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein selectively displaying a separate selectable navigation breakpoint with each of the selection of entries of interest within the stream, wherein selection of each separate selectable navigation breakpoint steps through the flow of the selection of entries of interest only further comprises:

selectively providing each separate selectable navigation breakpoint with each of the selection of entries within the user interface for reviewing the stream to support navigation by the particular user to step through the flow of the selection of entries of interest only from among the plurality of entries and automatically skipping over the other entries of the plurality of entries.