User Controllable Computer Presentation of Interfaces and Information Selectively Provided via a Network

• US 20090144630A1
• Filed: 01/05/2009
• Published: 06/04/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canvas Technology, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Fox Interactive Media Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Inventors: Synstelien, Donald E., Berryman, Ronald P.
• Application Number:
  US12/348,454
• Publication Number:
  US 20090144630A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/736
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04804 Transparency, e.g. transparent or translucent windows
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45512 Command shells
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

A system and method for user controllable presentation of content on a user device having an interactive GUI and configured for network interaction with a living content system is provided. The living application system has a set of applications and configuration files. A shell application is run on the client device and is configured to execute one or more applications downloaded to the shell application. Content is provided either directly to the user device from content sources or via the living application system. A GUI management module is configured to apply user preferences to downloaded applications to generate graphical displays on the user device, wherein said graphical displays are real-time displays that can be superimposed over existing windows in a frame having variable opacity, size, continuity, shape and placement.

Claims

1. A method for presentation of information to a user via a user device without a web browser and configured for access to a server on a network, the method comprising:

providing at least one living application, via the server on the network if not present on the user device, which presents information to a user via an interactive interface, the at least one living application receiving the information on the network from at least one content source; and

providing a shell application, via the server on the network if not present on the user device, wherein the at least one living application is executed, the shell application controlling a configuration of the at least one living application, wherein the configuration includes living application logic and transparency of the interactive interface, wherein the transparency is variable and ranges from 0% to 100% transparency depending on the at least one living application.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the configuration further includes a shape of the interactive interface, wherein the interactive interface is of any shape defined by the at least one living application.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the shape of the interactive interface can be changed from a first shape to a second shape.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the first shape is a round window, and the second shape is a scoreboard.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

gathering user demographic information by the shell application; and

changing the information presented to the user as a results of data analysis of the user demographic information.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

monitoring for an occurrence of a predetermined event by the shell application; and

taking a predetermined action in response to the predetermined event.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the predetermined event comprises receiving new information, and the predetermined action is the at least one living application presenting the new information to the user via the interactive interface.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the new information is an advertisement.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the new information is presented to the user with the information via the interactive interface.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the new information comprising interactive content.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the interactive interface comprises a plurality of segments, each of the plurality of segments providing different types of data that is updated independently.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the plurality of segments include a first segment of graphic data, and a second segment of real-time feed data.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the plurality of segments include a first segment of graphic data, and a second segment of streaming data.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the plurality of segments include a first segment of static data, and a second segment of real-time feed data.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the plurality of segments include a first segment of static data, and a second segment of streaming data.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one living application employs interactivity between another living application to permit sharing of data.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein the information presented by the interactive interface for the at least one living application is different than the information presented by the interactive interface for the another living application.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the interactive interface is rendered over part of a document being currently displayed on the user device.