Animation management in applications

• US 10,496,970 B2
• Filed: 12/29/2015
• Issued: 12/03/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Block, Inc. (f/k/a Square, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Block, Inc. (f/k/a Square, Inc.)
• Inventors: Renke, Christopher Philip
• Primary Examiner(s): Uber, Nathan C
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ortiz Roman, Denisse Y
• Application Number:
  US14/982,994
• Publication Number:
  US 20170185983A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,435 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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 20/20 Point-of-sale [POS] network systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/12 Hotels or restaurants
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/80 2D [Two Dimensional] animation, e.g. using sprites
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/24 involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs]

Abstract

Techniques and arrangements for managing animations (e.g., chrome) on an application of a computing device are described. The application may dynamically adjust the number of animations to process information at a faster and/or slower rate. The application may adjust the number of animations based on various factors, such as a rate of input events, a rate of outbound signals, a type of user, an experience level of a user, a time of day, a time of year, and/or other factors.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

causing display, on a screen of a merchant point-of-sale device, of a user interface of an application, the user interface including animations;

receiving, by the merchant point-of-sale device and via the user interface, an input associated with a point-of-sale transaction;

generating input data corresponding to the input;

determining, based at least in part on the input data, to increase a speed at which one or more processors of the merchant point-of-sale device process requests associated with the point-of-sale transaction; and

based at least in part on the determining to increase the speed, disabling at least one of the animations.

2. The method as claim 1 recites, wherein the determining to increase the speed comprises determining to increase the speed based at least in part on:

calculating a rate of processing transactions over a period of time; and

determining that the rate exceeds a threshold rate.

3. The method as claim 1 recites, wherein the determining to increase the speed comprises determining to increase the speed based at least in part on:

calculating a rate of processing input events over a period of time, individual ones of the input events including a selection via the user interface; and

determining that the rate exceeds a threshold rate.

4. The method as claim 1 recites, wherein the determining to increase the speed is based at least in part on at least one of:

a time of day;

a day of a week;

a merchant location;

a merchant type;

a user profile associated with the merchant point-of-sale device;

or

an applet of the application being displayed.

5. The method as claim 1 recites, wherein the application is configured to facilitate payment transactions between a merchant and a customer.

6. The method as claim 1 recites, further comprising, prior to causing display of the user interface, identifying an initial number of the animations for the user interface based at least in part on a merchant type.

7. The method as claim 1 recites, further comprising:

determining to decrease the speed at which the application processes requests; and

enabling, based at least in part on determining to decrease the speed, at least one of the animations.

8. The method as claim 1 recites, wherein individual ones of the animations include at least one of:

a picture;

a drop-down menu;

a sound;

or

a response to an input event.

9. A system comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions executable by the one or more processors, wherein the instructions program the one or more processors to perform acts comprising;

causing display, on a screen of a point-of-sale device, of a first number of animations via a user interface associated with an application;

receiving input data representing input associated with the user interface, the input associated with a point-of-sale transaction;

determining, based at least in part on the input data, to increase a speed at which the application causes a processor of the point-of-sale device to process requests; and

based at least in part on the determining to increase the speed, causing display of a second number of animations via the user interface, wherein the second number of animations is less than the first number of animations.

10. The system as claim 9 recites, wherein the determining to increase the speed is based at least in part on a time of day.

11. The system as claim 9 recites, wherein the determining to increase the speed is based at least in part on a user profile.

12. The system as claim 9 recites, wherein the determining to increase the speed comprises determining to increase the speed based at least in part on:

calculating a rate of processing the input data over a period of time; and

determining that the rate exceeds a threshold rate.

13. The system as claim 9 recites, wherein the acts further comprise:

processing transactions via the application; and

the determining to increase the speed comprises determining to increase the speed based at least in part on;

calculating a rate of processing the transactions over a period of time; and

determining that the rate exceeds a threshold rate.

14. The system as claim 9 recites, wherein the acts further comprise:

determining that the speed is above a threshold speed for the application; and

causing display of the first number of animations based at least in part on determining that the speed is above the threshold speed.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein causing display of the second number of animations comprises causing display of the second number of animations for a predetermined amount of time, and the operations further comprise:

determining that the predetermined amount of time has lapsed; and

causing display, based at least in part on determining that the predetermined amount of time has lapsed, of the first number of animations.

16. A system comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions executable by the one or more processors, wherein the instructions program the one or more processors to perform acts comprising;

causing display, on a screen of a merchant point-of-sale device, of a user interface of an application, the user interface including animations;

receiving, by the merchant point-of-sale device, an input associated with a point-of-sale transaction via the user interface;

generating input data corresponding to the input;

determining, based at least in part on the input data, to increase a speed at which the one or more processors process requests; and

based at least in part on the determining to increase the speed, disabling at least one of the animations.

17. The system as claim 16 recites, the acts further comprising, prior to causing display of the user interface, identifying an initial number of the animations for display via the user interface based at least in part on a merchant type.

18. The system as claim 16 recites, the acts further comprising:

prior to causing display of the user interface, identifying an employee profile from a merchant profile database, the employee profile indicating an experience level of the employee; and

identifying an initial number of the animations for display via the user interface based at least in part on the employee profile.

19. The system as claim 16 recites, wherein the application includes a first applet and a second applet, and the disabling the at least one of the animations includes disabling animations of the first applet and maintaining animations of the second applet as enabled.

20. The system as claim 16 recites, wherein the animations comprise at least one of an audio presentation or a visual presentation.