User interface for activity status and history

• US 9,201,952 B1
• Filed: 12/21/2011
• Issued: 12/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Chau, Stephen, Szybalski, Andrew T., Lafon, Stephane, Frome, Andrea Lynn, Morrison, Jerry Howard, Prothro, Derek, Nguyen, Huy
• Primary Examiner(s): Uddin, Mohammed R
• Application Number:
  US13/334,003
• Time in Patent Office: 1,441 Days
• Field of Search: 707/722, 707/730, 707/748
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/335 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles filtering in web context G06F16/9535, G06F16/9536
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/435 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/437 Administration of user profiles, e.g. generation, initialisation, adaptation, distribution
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/046 Interoperability with other network applications or services

Abstract

Some configurations of the subject technology provide a user interface including an activity-creation display configured to create a first activity of several activities, and a single-activity display configured to display a single activity of the several activities, and information related to a list of users associated with the activity. The single-activity display includes a parameter-entry display configured to select a parameter for the single activity and to send a signal to the single activity corresponding to the selected parameter, a heads-up display configured to send a heads-up message about the single activity to a user, a location display configured to display information related to a location of the single activity, a status indicator configured to display a status based on the status parameter of the single activity, and a status-entry display configured to, upon selection, send a signal to change the status indicator of the single activity.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

providing, for display in an activity-list user interface (UI), a plurality of activities stored in a global activity database, wherein each activity of the plurality of activities is defined by a plurality of parameters and is associated with one or more associated users, and wherein the plurality of activities are ordered according to a ranking determined based on one or more of the plurality of parameters; and

providing for display in a single-activity user interface (UI) based on received user input;

a first activity from the plurality of activities;

information related to the one or more associated users associated with the first activity, wherein the information includes a number of the one or more associated users and at least one user identifier for the one or more associated users; and

a first element configured to, upon selection, provide for display a messaging user interface (UI) overlaid on the single-activity UI such that a portion of the single-activity UI is visible and a portion of the single-activity UI is not visible, wherein the first element is configured to, upon selection, display in the messaging UI;

one or more selectable elements, wherein each of the one or more selectable elements corresponds to a respective user other than the one or more associated users, and

a second element configured to, upon selection, send a message about the first activity to users corresponding to selected ones of the one or more selectable elements.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the single-activity UI further comprises:

a parameter-entry display configured to select a parameter of the plurality of parameters for the first activity and to send a signal to the first activity corresponding to the selected parameter.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the single-activity UI further comprises:

a location display configured to display information related to a location of the first activity.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of parameters comprises a status parameter, and wherein the single-activity UI further comprises:

a status indicator configured to display a status based on the status parameter of the first activity.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the single-activity UI further comprises:

a status-entry display configured to, upon selection, send a signal to change the status indicator of the first activity.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of parameters comprises status parameters and time-related parameters, and wherein the activity-list UI further comprises:

a timeline display configured to generate a time-based display of one or more activities from the plurality of activities, wherein the timeline display includes the ranking of the one or more activities for display based at least in part on the status parameters of the one or more activities or the time-related parameters of the one or more activities.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the generated time-based display of the one or more activities includes at least one from an activity identified to be completed as soon as possible, an upcoming activity, an unscheduled activity, a delayed activity, and a low priority activity.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the activity-list UI further comprises:

a context display configured to generate an importance based display of one or more activities from the plurality of activities, wherein the context display includes the ranking of the one or more activities for display based at least in part on information stored in a profile for a user, wherein the profile for the user comprises at least a mood parameter, a location parameter, and a time-related parameter.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of parameters comprises a status parameter, and wherein the status parameter of a corresponding activity indicates that the corresponding activity is completed, active or in-progress.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing for display one or more users that have added the first activity.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing for display a private activity from the plurality of activities, wherein the private activity is limited for viewing to a specified one or more users.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing for display one or more suggested activities based on one or more user-specific parameters.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing for display a self-curated list of one or more activities, wherein the self-curated list indicates one or more goals for a user.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing for display a shared history of one or more activities, wherein the shared history includes at least one activity that at least two different users have completed.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the second element is further configured to provide for display a number corresponding to a number of the selected ones of the one or more selectable elements.

16. A system, comprising:

one or more processors configured to generate a user interface, the user interface comprising;

an activity-list display configured to display a plurality of activities stored in a global activity database, wherein each activity of the plurality of activities is defined by a plurality of parameters and is associated with one or more associated users, and wherein the plurality of activities are ordered according to a ranking determined based on one or more of the plurality of parameters; and

a single-activity display configured to display based on received user input;

a single activity from the plurality of activities;

information related to the one or more associated users associated with the single activity, wherein the information includes a number of the one or more associated users and at least one user identifier for the one or more associated users; and

a first element configured to, upon selection, provide for display a messaging user interface (UI) overlaid on the single-activity display such that a portion of the single-activity display is visible and a portion of the single-activity display is not visible, wherein the first element is configured to, upon selection, display in the messaging UI;

one or more selectable elements, wherein each of the one or more selectable elements corresponds to a respective user other than the one or more associated users, and

a second element configured to, upon selection, send a message about the single activity to users corresponding to selected ones of the one or more selectable elements.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the plurality of parameters comprises a status parameter, and wherein the single-activity display further comprises:

a parameter-entry display configured to select a parameter of the plurality of parameters for the single activity and to send a signal to the single activity corresponding to the selected parameter;

a location display configured to display information related to a location of the single activity;

a status indicator configured to display a status based on the status parameter of the single activity; and

a status-entry display configured to, upon selection, send a signal to change the status indicator of the single activity.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the plurality of parameters comprises status parameters and time-related parameters, and wherein the activity-list display comprises:

a timeline display configured to generate a time-based display of one or more activities from the plurality of activities, wherein the timeline display includes the ranking of the one or more activities for display based at least in part on the status parameters of the one or more activities or the time-related parameters of the one or more activities; and

a life-list display configured to generate an importance based display of the one or more activities, wherein the life-list display includes the ranking of the one or more activities for display based at least in part on information stored in a profile for a user, wherein the profile for the user comprises at least a mood parameter, a location parameter, and a time-related parameter.

19. An article of manufacture including a non-transitory computer-readable medium, having stored thereon program instructions that, upon execution by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:

providing, for display in an activity-list user interface (UI), a plurality of activities stored in a global activity database, wherein each activity of the plurality of activities is defined by a plurality of parameters and is associated with one or more associated users, and wherein the plurality of activities are ordered according to a ranking determined based on one or more of the plurality of parameters; and

providing for display in a single-activity user interface (UI) based on received user input;

a first activity from the plurality of activities;

information related to the one or more associated users associated with the first activity, wherein the information includes a number of the one or more associated users and at least one user identifier for the one or more associated users; and

a first element configured to, upon selection, provide for display a messaging user interface (UI) overlaid on the single-activity UI such that a portion of the single-activity UI is visible and a portion of the single-activity UI is not visible, wherein the first element is configured to, upon selection, display in the messaging UI;

one or more selectable elements, wherein each of the one or more selectable elements corresponds to a respective user other than the one or more associated users, and

a second element configured to, upon selection, send a message about the first activity to users corresponding to selected ones of the one or more selectable elements.