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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Edwin J. Bruce, Corinth, TX (US);
Tong C. Dougharty, Southlake, TX (US);
Tassanee K. Supakkul, Euless, TX (US);
Janki Y. Vora, Dallas, TX (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Instructional content is visually presented within a graphical user interface overlay on a display for an application window also presented on the display. Interactive events between a user and the application are dynamically detected. Responsive to the interactive events, state-specific substantive instructions are determined given a current state of the application as determined from the interactive events. The instructional content is dynamically modified to continuously present the state-specific substantive instructions that correspond with the detected interactive events. Presentation characteristics of a graphical user interface overlay are dynamically modified based on the interactive events to make the graphical user interface overlay unobtrusive to user-application interactions while ensuring the graphical user interface overlay is presented in a visually proximate position to a user's current interactive focus as determined from the interactive events, wherein unobtrusiveness of the graphical user interface overlay ensures that user inputs directed at the application are not interfered with.