Application reporting in an application-selectable user interface

• US 9,766,790 B2
• Filed: 10/21/2015
• Issued: 09/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Zaman, Nazia, Garside, Adrian J., Bush, Christopher T., Barcheck, Lindsey R., Leonard, Chantal M., Satterfield, Jesse Clay
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Kevin
• Application Number:
  US14/919,607
• Publication Number:
  US 20160041730A1
• Time in Patent Office: 699 Days
• Field of Search: 715676, 715808, 715751-753, 715763-765
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

This document describes techniques for application reporting in an application-selectable user interface. These techniques permit a user to view reports for applications in a user interface through which these applications may be selected. By so doing, a user may quickly and easily determine which applications to select based on their respective reports and then select them or their content through the user interface.

Claims

1. A computing device comprising:

one or more computer processors; and

one or more computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, responsive to execution by the one or more computer processors, perform operations comprising;

receiving a report having a content change associated with an application along with an indication of a presentation format;

presenting, within a selectable label associated with but not generated by the application and in the presentation format, content associated with the content change associated with the application;

enabling selection, through the selectable label, to present other content associated with another content change to the application; and

responsive to selection, presenting the other content associated with the other content change to the application.

2. A computing device as described in claim 1, further comprising, prior to receiving the report, enabling selection of multiple presentation formats.

3. A computing device as described in claim 2, further comprising determining the presentation format from the multiple presentation formats based on the indication.

4. A computing device as described in claim 1, wherein the report includes an image or image locator for presentation within the selectable label and according to the presentation format.

5. A computing device as described in claim 1, wherein the report includes text for presentation within the selectable label.

6. A computing device as described in claim 5, wherein presenting the content presents the text at an area within the selectable label indicated by the presentation format.

7. A computing device as described in claim 1, wherein the report includes a universal resource locator (URL) for the content and further comprising, prior to presenting the content, retrieving the content using the URL.

8. A computing device as described in claim 1, wherein presenting the other content presents the other content in another interface.

13. A computing device as described in claim 1, where the application is currently not executing.

14. A computing device as described in claim 1, wherein the report includes the other content.

9. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving multiple reports having multiple respective content changes associated with respective applications, a first report of the multiple reports having a first presentation format and a second report of the multiple reports having a second presentation format, the first and second presentation formats being different and based on user preference;

presenting an application-selectable user interface having multiple selectable labels;

presenting, within a first of the selectable labels and in the first presentation format, first content associated with a first of the content changes; and

presenting, within a second of the selectable labels and in the second presentation format, second content associated with a second of the content changes.

10. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 9, wherein the first presentation format presents text and an image indicated in the first report and the second presentation format presents only text or only an image indicated in the second report.

11. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 9, wherein the first presentation format presents multiple content changes from multiple reports associated with the first application, the multiple content changes presented at on a rotating basis in the first of the selectable labels.

12. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 9, wherein the first presentation format presents multiple content changes from multiple reports associated with the first application, the multiple content changes presented at once within the first of the selectable labels.