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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Donald Robert Coyner, Seattle, WA (US);
David Jones, Seattle, WA (US);
Rudy Poot, Tiburon, CA (US);
Christopher Eoin Miles, Oakland, CA (US);
Ammon Haggerty, Oakland, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A user interface through which information is proactively provided utilizes visual cues indicative of the relevance of the information that is being proactively provided. Such visual cues include sizing, color, intensity, movement, and other like visual attributes. A single discrete visual element proactively presents information to the user. The user is provided with the opportunity to define discrete events, whereby information associated with such events is presented through other discrete elements. The physical orientation of such discrete elements indicates relationships between elements. Ranking functionality identifies more immediately relevant information and the rankings of related elements are increased based upon other, contextual information with which such information is associated, and on which the importance of such information is based. Information is surfaced to provide a vector through which the user responds or utilizes such surfaced information independently of specific application programs having discrete informational focus.