Interface transitioning and/or transformation

• US 9,348,615 B1
• Filed: 03/03/2011
• Issued: 05/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Brendan E. Clark
• Original Assignee: Brendan E. Clark
• Inventors: Krosky, Ronald Charles, Clapper, Matthew Franklin, Clark, Brendan Edward
• Primary Examiner(s): Das, Chameli
• Assistant Examiner(s): Macasiano, Joanne
• Application Number:
  US13/039,407
• Time in Patent Office: 1,909 Days
• Field of Search: 715/744
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/65 Updates security arrangements therefor G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/453 Help systems

Abstract

Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with transitioning are described. In one embodiment, a method comprises analyzing at least one interface to produce an interface analysis result. The method also comprises causing a transformation of at least one constituent element based, at least in part, on the interface analysis result.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a processor operatively coupled with non-transitory computer readable media, the non-transitory computer readable media configured to implement at least a portion of;

a monitor component that determines an observation of user behavior related to at least one of an old software edition, a new software edition, or a combination thereof;

a creation component that produces an intermediary software edition based, at least in part, on information representing one or more users and the observation,

the intermediary software edition includes at least one old visual element of the old software edition and at least one new visual element of the new software edition,

the at least one old visual element effects calls to an old functionality of the old software edition,

the intermediary software edition sends information related to calls to the old functionality to at least a portion of the old software edition for execution,

the at least one new visual element effects calls to a new functionality of the new software edition,

the at least one new visual element is compared to the at least one old visual element and scored according to a point system into a sum of points based on a complexity of a difference between the at least one new visual element and the at least one old visual element,

the at least one new visual element is provided in the intermediary software edition based on the sum of points associated with the at least one new element not crossing a complexity point threshold, and

the intermediary software edition sends information related to calls to the new functionality to at least a portion of the new software edition for execution; and

an output component that discloses the intermediary software edition, the intermediary software edition displays a result of execution of a call to at least one of the old functionality and the new functionality.

2. The system of claim 1, where the intermediary software edition is a first interface, where the new software edition is a second interface, where the old software edition is a third interface, and where the first interface is made up of visual elements from the second interface and the third interface.

3. The system of claim 1, comprising:

a rollback component that transitions from a current interface to a previous-based interface, where at least one of the current interface or the previous-based interface is the intermediary software edition.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the rollback component transitions from a current interface to a previous-based interface based on deviations from a normal usage pattern in gathered user performance data.

5. The system of claim 1, the monitor component further determines an intermediary observation of intermediary user behavior related to at least one the intermediary software edition, the intermediary observation statistically quantifies a usage pattern of a user.

6. The system of claim 5, where the intermediary observation includes how an entity responds to a previously presented intermediary software edition that forwards use of the new software edition over the old software edition.

7. The system of claim 5, where the observation includes an analysis of a historical record of how an entity group responds to at least one previously presented intermediary software edition, the entity group including two or more people who interacted with the intermediary software edition.

8. The system of claim 5, comprising:

a modification determination component that determines if the intermediary software edition should be modified based, at least in part, on the intermediary observation identifying a deviation from a normal usage pattern of the user;

a modification decision component that determines a manner on how to modify the intermediary software edition based, at least in part, on the intermediary observation, where the modification decision component operates in response to the modification determination component determining that the intermediary software edition should be modified; and

a modification performance component that modifies the intermediary software edition according to the manner, where the intermediary software edition is an interface.

9. The system of claim 1, comprising:

an examination component that monitors a response of an entity to the intermediary software edition; and

a development component that creates a training program for the entity based, at least in part, on the response,

the training program assists in a user locating functionality in at least one of the intermediary software edition or the new software edition.

10. The system of claim 9, comprising:

an evaluation component that analyzes the response; and

a creation determination component that determines if the training program should be created, where the development component creates the training program in response to a determination being that the training program should be created.

11. The system of claim 1, the intermediary software edition includes at least one visual element that is not an exact old visual element of the old software edition and is not an exact new visual element of the new software edition.

12. The system of claim 1, the creation component produces the intermediary software edition without employment of an overlay technique.

13. A method, comprising:

reading a nontransitory computer readable medium, the nontransitory computer readable medium including instructions to perform at least a portion of;

analyzing at least a first interface associated with a first software and a second interface associated with a second software to produce an interface analysis result, the analysis result scored according to a sum of points based on differences between the first interface and the second interface;

identifying an old function accessible through the first interface which is not accessible through the second interface;

displaying an intermediary interface in place of the second interface for the second software including a transformation of at least one first constituent element of the first interface to at least one second constituent element of the second interface based, at least in part, on the sum of points from the interface analysis result not crossing a complexity point threshold and information representative of at least one user;

receiving a request for the old function through the intermediary interface;

calling the first software in response to the request to have the first software execute the old function; and

displaying information returned from the old function through the intermediary interface.

14. The method of claim 13, where the transformation forwards use of a subsequent interface over use of a previous interface, where the previous interface is one of the first interface and the second interface.

15. The method of claim 14, comprising:

accessing an interface history including response information related to a user interaction with at least the first interface, and

analyzing the interface history to produce an interface history analysis result, where the interface analysis result comprises the interface history analysis result.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

creating a training program for the at least one user based, at least in part, on an analysis of user interaction with the first interface, where the training program provides training information to perform similar actions with second interface as the at least one user previously performed in the first interface.

17. The method of claim 13, further comprising reverting transformation of the at least one first constituent element of the first interface from the at least one second constituent element of the second interface based on deviations from a normal usage pattern in gathered user performance data.

18. A system, comprising:

a processor operatively coupled with non-transitory computer readable media, the non-transitory computer readable media configured to implement at least a portion of;

an analysis component that analyzes a first interface associated with an old software version and a second interface associated with a new software version to produce an analysis result, the analysis result is scored according to a sum of points based on the differences between the first interface and the second interface; and

a selection component that makes a determination on if a transition training sequence should be created based at least in part on the sum of points from the analysis result crosses a point threshold,

where the transition training sequence comprises at least one intermediary interface that displays an animation of a visual transformation corresponding to a functional transformation between the first interface and the second interface,

the animation animates at least one first constituent element of the first interface changing to at least one second constituent element of the second interface based, at least in part, on the analysis result and information representative of at least one user,

where differences between the at least one first constituent element and the at least one second constituent element result in the sum of points crossing the point threshold,

where the first constituent element is associated with a function of the old software version and the second constituent element is associated with the new software version, and

where the animation is triggered by calling the old function using the at least one intermediary interface.

19. The system of claim 18, comprising:

a resolution component that produces a decision for a content of the transition training sequence including a number of intermediary interfaces to be produced transitioning between the first interface and the second interface, the decision based at least in part on the analysis result, where the resolution component operates in response to a determination being that the transition training sequence should be created comprising two or more intermediary interfaces; and

a production component that creates the transition training sequence with the content, where the transition training sequence trains an entity to use the second interface, where the entity previously used the first interface.

20. The system of claim 18, comprising:

a monitor component that monitors implementation of the transition training sequence to create a monitor result;

a change determination component that makes a change determination on if the transition training sequence should change after implementation of at least part of the transition training sequence, where the change determination is based, at least in part, on the monitor result including deviations from a normal usage pattern in gathered user performance data;

a decision component that makes an alteration determination, where the alteration determination is how to change the transition training sequence, where the alteration determination is based, at least in part, on the monitor result, and where the decision component operates in response to the change determination being that the transition training sequence should change; and

an alteration component that causes the transition training sequence to be altered according to the alteration determination.