System and method for providing content on an electronic device

• US 8,392,847 B2
• Filed: 05/20/2008
• Issued: 03/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: O'Shaugnessy, Kevin M., Akamine, Michael K., Dominguez, Dianne P.
• Primary Examiner(s): LEGGETT, ANDREA C.
• Application Number:
  US12/123,914
• Publication Number:
  US 20090293013A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,750 Days
• Field of Search: 715/863, 715/810, 715/785
• US Class Current: 715/785
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A computing device includes a display and a processor coupled to the display and configured to display a plurality of items of information in a time-sequential manner, with a predetermined time interval between items of information being displayed. At least one of the items of information includes data originating from an application operating on the computing device.

Claims

1. A computing device, comprising:

a display; and

a processor coupled with the display and to automatically display a plurality of items of information in a time-sequential manner on the display, with a predetermined time interval between items of information being displayed such that the plurality of items of information automatically scroll across the display at a default rate and without user interaction, the processor to adjust at least one of the time interval between items of information being displayed and a direction in which the items of information are scrolled across the display;

the plurality of items of information including notifications originating from a plurality of applications operating on the computing device;

a first displayed item of information from the plurality of items of information corresponding with a most recent notification received from the plurality of applications, the first displayed item of information to be removed from the plurality of items of information after a predetermined amount of time.

2. The computing device of claim 1, the application comprising an information management application running on the processor.

3. The computing device of claim 2, wherein the at least one of the items of information provides an indication of at least one of a voicemail, an email, and a calendar appointment.

4. The computing device of claim 1, the display is a touch screen display.

5. The computing device of claim 4, the processor to receive a selection of one of the items of information via the display and provide additional content in response to receiving the selection.

6. The computing device of claim 5, the additional content is one of email data, voicemail data, and data retrieved via a wireless network.

7. The computing device of claim 1, the computing device is a handheld computing device.

8. A computing device, comprising:

a display; and

a processor coupled with the display and to display a plurality of message items, each message item associated with content including notifications originating from a plurality of applications operating on the computing device, the message items being automatically displayed in a scrolling fashion at a default rate on the display in an order determined by when each message item was received from the plurality of applications and without user interaction;

the processor to determine whether to display each of the message items based on when each message item was received from the plurality of applications, the processor to adjust at least one of a time interval between message items being displayed and a direction in which the message items are scrolled across the display.

9. The computing device of claim 8, the content associated with each message item originates from at least one content source.

10. The computing device of claim 9, the at least one content source is an email application and the processor determines whether to display the message item representing the content associated with the email application based on whether the email application has any new or unread email messages.

11. The computing device of claim 9, the at least one content source is a calendar application and the processor determines whether to display the message item representing the content associated with the calendar application based on a calendar entry in the calendar application.

12. The computing device of claim 11, the calendar entry represents an appointment for a user.

13. The computing device of claim 8, the processor to determine whether to provide each of the message items further based on the relevancy of the content to the user.

14. The computing device of claim 8, further comprising:

a memory;

wherein for each message item, the processor to store data required to display the message item in the memory prior to displaying the image.

15. A method of presenting content on an electronic device, comprising:

automatically displaying a plurality of images on a display such that the plurality of images automatically scroll across the display at a default rate and without user interaction, the images being displayed with a predetermined time interval between images and in a predetermined order;

the plurality of images including notifications originating from a plurality of applications operating on the electronic device;

a first displayed image from the plurality of images corresponding with a most recent notification received from the plurality of applications;

removing the first displayed image from the plurality of images after a predetermined amount of time;

receiving an input from a user; and

adjusting at least one of the time interval and the predetermined order based on the input.

16. The method of claim 15, the display is a touch screen display and the input is received by the display.

17. The method of claim 16, the input is a gesture received from the user comprising a direction and a speed.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the time interval between images is based upon the speed of the gesture.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the predetermined order is determined by the direction of the gesture.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein at least one of the images provides an indication of at least one of a voicemail, an email, and a calendar appointment.

21. The method of claim 15, the processor to temporarily adjust the time interval and the predetermined order in response to the input.

22. The method of claim 15, the plurality of images are substantially the same size and occupy substantially the same display area.

23. The method of claim 15, comprising:

storing data required to display the plurality of images in a memory prior to displaying the plurality of images.