ELECTRICAL TIME MEASURING SYSTEM OR DEVICE INDICATING TIME INTERVALS BY REGIONED CONCENTRIC ARCIFORMS THAT INDICATE THE TIME OF DURATION OF PARTICULAR EVENTS
First Claim
1. A time measuring device, intended to conserve processor cycles and memory usage when used in indicating time interval durations, the device comprising:
- a computer system with a processing system having a hardware processor configured to perform a predefined set of basic operations in response to receiving a corresponding basic instruction selected from a predefined native instruction set of codes, and with a memory accessible to the processing system;
a user interface controller under control of the processing system; and
logic, comprising a set of machine codes stored in the memory and selected from the predefined native instruction set of codes of the hardware processor, adapted to operate with the user interface controller to implement a user interface having a first clockface display comprising;
a plurality of concentric regions including an ante meridiem events region, and a post meridiem events region;
a first arciform comprising a first start point in one of the concentric regions and a first end point in a different one of the concentric regions; and
the first arciform comprising a first respective integral boundary-crossing transition indicator.
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Abstract
An electrical time measuring device, intended to conserve processor cycles and memory when used in indicating time interval durations, includes a computer system with a processing system having a hardware processor and a memory accessible to the processing system, a user interface controller under control of the processing system, and logic, under control of the processing system. Various embodiments include nested concentric regions in a clockface display, an ante meridiem events region, a post meridiem events region, and/or a following-day events or tasks region. Events or time interval durations are represented as arciform. For events that cross from morning to afternoon, or from evening to the following day, arciforms are displayed with a start point in one of the nested concentric regions and an end point in a different one of the nested concentric regions. The parts of such arciforms are joined by an integral boundary-crossing transition indicator.
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35 Claims
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1. A time measuring device, intended to conserve processor cycles and memory usage when used in indicating time interval durations, the device comprising:
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a computer system with a processing system having a hardware processor configured to perform a predefined set of basic operations in response to receiving a corresponding basic instruction selected from a predefined native instruction set of codes, and with a memory accessible to the processing system; a user interface controller under control of the processing system; and logic, comprising a set of machine codes stored in the memory and selected from the predefined native instruction set of codes of the hardware processor, adapted to operate with the user interface controller to implement a user interface having a first clockface display comprising; a plurality of concentric regions including an ante meridiem events region, and a post meridiem events region; a first arciform comprising a first start point in one of the concentric regions and a first end point in a different one of the concentric regions; and the first arciform comprising a first respective integral boundary-crossing transition indicator. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method, intended to improve processor cycle and memory usage when indicating time interval durations in a time measuring device, the method comprising:
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providing logic accessible to a processing system of a computer system, the processing system having a hardware processor, the computer system having a user interface controller under control of the processing system; operating the logic, under control of the processing system, and the user interface controller to implement a user interface, including; displaying a first clockface comprising; a plurality of concentric regions including an ante meridiem events region, and a post meridiem events region; a first arciform comprising a first start point in one of the concentric regions and a first end point in a different one of the concentric regions, the first start point identifying a start time of a first time interval, the first end point identifying an end time of the first time interval; and the first arciform comprising a first respective integral boundary-crossing transition indicator. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium bearing instructions adapted to enable a hardware processor of a processing system to perform operations to indicate time intervals by regioned concentric arciforms that indicate a time of duration of events, the operations including:
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displaying a first clockface having a plurality of concentric regions including an ante meridiem events region, and a post meridiem events region; displaying arciforms representing time intervals, the arciforms each having a respective start point representing a respective start time of a time interval and a respective end point representing a respective end time of the time interval; regioning each respective start point and each respective end point of the arciforms in one of the plurality of concentric regions according to time; and for ones of the arciforms having the respective start point and the respective end point regioned in different ones of the plurality of concentric regions, displaying a respective integral boundary-crossing transition indicator.
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Specification