US 8,209,634 B2
Previewing a new event on a small screen deviceGeneral
US 8,209,634 B2
Previewing a new event on a small screen device
Tech Center:
2100 Computer Architecture and Software
Examiner:
Boris Pesin
Art Unit:
2172 Graphical User Interface and Document Processing
Agent:
Inventors:
Gerhard D. Klassen; Craig A. Dunk; Christopher R. Wormald
Assignee:
Priority:
12/01/03
Filed:
02/24/04
Granted:
06/26/12
Expiration:
08/14/26
Abstract
Method and apparatus for previewing new events in a computing device having a plurality of applications for managing respective events are described. Individual applications are each represented by an application icon on a screen of a graphical user interface for the device. When a new event occurs, particularly when the new event relates to a specific one of a plurality of similar applications, the invention provides a convenient way to denote which application relates to the event. In response to a new event of a one of the applications, the application's icon is visually modified to notify of the new event. A visual modification may be determined in response to the new event, for example, to preview a content of the event. The visual modification may include a count of all new events that remain to be disposed. On a selection of the visually modified icon, additional previewing may be provided. Activation of the application having a visually modified application icon may be configured to automatically initiate the application at the new event.
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
H04H04L51/04H04LG06Q10/107G06F3/04817G06Q