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Positioning and rendering notification heralds based on user's focus of attention and activity

  • US 7,743,340 B2
  • Filed: 06/30/2003
  • Issued: 06/22/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A notification system embodied on a computer-readable storage medium, comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed on a computer, implement:

  • a component that generates a notification to a user of the computer when displayed on a display screen of one or more display screens of the computer, the notification being associated with a message having an assigned urgency; and

    an information controller that;

    receives attentional inputs associated with the user and determines the user'"'"'s current activity and focus of attention based on the attentional inputs,dynamically selects a location on the one or more display screens based on the user'"'"'s current activity and focus of attention and the assigned urgency; and

    presents an information herald representing the notification in the selected location,wherein the selected location is such that the distance of the information herald from the user'"'"'s focus of attention decreases as the urgency increases.

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