INTEGRATING DESKTOP AND MOBILE DEVICES

• US 20180173379A1
• Filed: 12/19/2016
• Published: 06/21/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Arin Bhowmick, Daniel Schwartz
• Original Assignee: Arin Bhowmick, Daniel Schwartz
• Inventors: Schwartz, Daniel, Bhowmick, Arin
• Granted Patent: US 11,036,354 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

A system and method for facilitating user interface interactions between different computing devices. An example method includes providing a first user option to select a first portion of a first user interface display screen presented on a first computing device; providing a signal based on the selected portion; and using the signal to display one or more items in a second user interface display screen via a second computing device based on the first portion and one or more mapping rules. In a more specific embodiment, the example method further includes providing a second user option to adjust the mapping rules. The first portion includes, for example, a table row or column. The one or more items displayed via the second computing device include, for example, a visualization based on data associated with the first portion.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium carrying program instructions thereon, the instructions when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

providing a first user option to select a first portion of a first user interface display screen of a first computing device;

determining one or more mapping rules based on contextual information associated with the first portion of the first user interface, and wherein the mapping rules specify one or more user interface controls to be displayed in a second user interface display screen of a second computing device based on the contextual information; and

causing the one or more user interface controls to be displayed in the second user interface display screen of the second computing device based, at least in part, on the selected first portion and the one or more mapping rules.

2. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein at least one mapping rule of the one or more mapping rules specifies how at least one first item is transformed into a second item.

3. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the first portion of the first user interface display screen of the first computing device comprises one or more user interface controls.

4. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the first portion of the first user interface display screen of the first computing device comprises one or more of functionality and data associated with a selected region of the first user interface display screen.

5. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the first portion of the first user interface display screen of the first computing device comprises a table.

6. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the first portion of the first user interface display screen of the first computing device comprises a drop-down menu.

7. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the contextual information comprises information about an originating computing environment.

8. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the contextual information comprises information about items being worked and displayed in association with the first user interface display screen of the first computing device.

9. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the contextual information comprises information that facilitates conveying a state of the first user interface display screen.

10. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the contextual information comprises calendar entries.

11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, modifying the one or more mapping rules based on the contextual information.

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the contextual information comprises device resources.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the contextual information comprises static data.

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the contextual information comprises dynamic data.

15. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the contextual information is presented based on system learning of user behaviors.

16. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more mapping rules comprise rules developed via system learning of user behaviors.

17. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more mapping rules comprise rules based on software usage history.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the one or more mapping rules are based on computing resources available to the first computing device.

19. A method for facilitating user interface interactions between computing devices, the method comprising:

providing a first user option to select a first portion of a first user interface display screen of a first computing device;

determining one or more mapping rules based on contextual information associated with the first portion of the first user interface, and wherein the mapping rules specify one or more user interface controls to be displayed in a second user interface display screen of a second computing device based on the contextual information; and

causing the one or more user interface controls to be displayed in the second user interface display screen of the second computing device based, at least in part, on the selected first portion and the one or more mapping rules.

20. A system comprising:

one or more processors; and

logic encoded in one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media for execution by the one or more processors and when executed operable to perform operations comprising;

providing a first user option to select a first portion of a first user interface display screen of a first computing device;

determining one or more mapping rules based on contextual information associated with the first portion of the first user interface, and wherein the mapping rules specify one or more user interface controls to be displayed in a second user interface display screen of a second computing device based on the contextual information; and

causing the one or more user interface controls to be displayed in the second user interface display screen of the second computing device based, at least in part, on the selected first portion and the one or more mapping rules.