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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 20, 1995
Shmuel Shaffer, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Neufito Fernandes, Cupertino, CA (US);
Siemens Business Communication Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system of sequencing menu items of a menu-driven user/system interface includes a resequencing of the menu items in response to the frequency of selection and/or a shift in the primary responsibility of a user. In one embodiment, an initial sequence of the serially presented menu items is stored. The selection of each menu item is counted. The menu items are then rearranged to provide a frequency-based order that presents the most often selected items before the less likely to be selected menu items. The step of resequencing the menu items may be limited to input of a resequencing command by a user or may be limited to predetermined time periods. As another optional feature, the 'learning' that occurs by counting the selections can be downloaded from one system and uploaded to another system. In a second embodiment, the rearrangement is task-based. Depending upon the task assigned to the user or depending upon the mode of operation of the system, the menu items are arranged, again with the goal of presenting the most often selected menu items at the beginning of the progression.