Computer system and method including an operation performed in a manner based on a determined activity

• US 20070079237A1
• Filed: 10/05/2005
• Published: 04/05/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Simmonds, Ian, Bloom, Bard, Nelson, Eric, Tang, Steven, Neuberger, Wendy, Abrams, Steven, Tarr, Peri, Kimelman, Douglas, Vlissides, John, Vissides, Dru, Keyser, Paul
• Application Number:
  US11/243,191
• Publication Number:
  US 20070079237A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/700
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

A computer system (and method) includes a determining device for determining an activity of a user, and a setting device for setting an operating manner of an operating device based on the determined activity.

Claims

1. A computer system, comprising:

a determining device for determining an activity of a user; and

a setting device for setting an operating manner of an operating device based on said determined activity.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said operating device comprises a display device for displaying data,

wherein said setting device configures a display of said data according to said determined activity.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein said determining device determines that another activity is being performed and said setting device reconfigures said display according to said another activity.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein said setting device automatically configures said display according to said determined activity.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein said setting device comprises a selector which selects said display from among a plurality of displays.

6. The system of claim 2, wherein said data comprises a graph.

7. The system of claim 2, wherein said setting device comprises a filter for producing a filtered subset of said data according to said determined activity, and

wherein said display device displays said filtered subset of said data.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein said display comprises a hierarchical organization area which displays said filtered subset.

9. The system of claim 2, wherein said setting device comprises a recommending device for recommending a manner of interacting with said data according to said determined activity, and

wherein said display device displays said recommended manner of interacting with said data.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein said display comprises a recommendation area which displays said recommended manner of interacting with said data.

11. The system of claim 2, wherein said determining device comprises a selector for selecting said activity from among a plurality of activities, and

wherein said display comprises a menu for listing said plurality of activities.

12. The system of claim 2, wherein said determining device comprises an analyzer for analyzing an interaction of said user with said computer system, and outputting said determined activity based on a result of said analyzing.

13. The system of claim 2, wherein said determining device comprises a detector for detecting at least one of a status of said user in a process according to workflow system, and a work item that said user has taken off of a queue.

14. The system of claim 2, wherein said display device comprises a software modeling application for displaying software modeling data.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein said operating manner comprises a response to a user input, and

wherein said setting device comprises a selector for selecting said response to said user input from among a plurality of responses to said user input.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein said selected response to said user input comprises sending a command to another computer system which is connected to said computer system.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein said another computer system comprises an instant messaging server, and

wherein said selected response to said user input comprises sending a command to said instant messaging server for controlling a visibility of said user from said server.

18. A computer method, comprising:

determining an activity of a user; and

setting an operating manner for an operating device based on said determined activity.

20. The method of claim 18, further comprising:

deploying computing infrastructure in which computer-readable code is integrated into a computing system, such that said code and said computing system combine to perform said method.

19. A programmable storage medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a digital processing apparatus to perform a computer method, said method comprising:

determining an activity of a user; and

setting an operating manner for an operating device based on said determined activity.