INFORMATION SURFACING WITH VISUAL CUES INDICATIVE OF RELEVANCE
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Abstract
A user interface through which information is proactively provided utilizes visual cues indicative of the relevance of the information that is being proactively provided. Such visual cues include sizing, color, intensity, movement, and other like visual attributes. A single discrete visual element proactively presents information to the user. The user is provided with the opportunity to define discrete events, whereby information associated with such events is presented through other discrete elements. The physical orientation of such discrete elements indicates relationships between elements. Ranking functionality identifies more immediately relevant information and the rankings of related elements are increased based upon other, contextual information with which such information is associated, and on which the importance of such information is based. Information is surfaced to provide a vector through which the user responds or utilizes such surfaced information independently of specific application programs having discrete informational focus.
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40 Claims
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21. A method for notifying a user via a graphical user interface that is physically generated on a hardware display device by a computing device, the method comprising the steps of:
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obtaining a first notification; generating, as part of the graphical user interface, a first discrete visual element to appear as if it is floating before the user, the first discrete visual element comprising the first notification; obtaining a second notification differing from the first notification; and generating, as part of the graphical user interface, and proximate to the first discrete visual element, a second discrete visual element to appear as if it is floating before the user, the second discrete visual element comprising the second notification; wherein a visual proximity of the second discrete visual element to the first discrete visual element in the graphical user interface is indicative of a relationship between the second notification and the first notification. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A graphical user interface, physically generated on a hardware display device by a computing device, for notifying a user, the graphical user interface comprising:
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a first discrete visual element visually appearing as if it is floating before the user and comprising a first notification; and a second discrete visual element proximate to the first discrete visual element, the second discrete visual element visually appearing as if it is floating before the user and comprising a second notification; wherein a visual proximity of the second discrete visual element to the first discrete visual element in the graphical user interface is indicative of a relationship between the second notification and the first notification. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39)
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40. A Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) device comprising liquid crystals, the liquid crystals being physically ordered to display multiple three-dimensional visual elements to visually appear as if the multiple three-dimensional visual elements are floating before a user of the LCD device, the multiple three-dimensional visual elements comprising:
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a first three-dimensional visual element comprising a first notification; and a second three-dimensional visual element comprising a second notification; wherein a visual proximity of the second discrete visual element to the first discrete visual element, as displayed by the physically ordered liquid crystals of the LCD device, is indicative of a relationship between the second notification and the first notification such that if the second notification is explicitly related to the first notification, the first and second three-dimensional visual element share an edge, and if the second notification is implicitly related to the first notification, the first and second three-dimensional visual element are displayed with a visual gap between them.
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