US 10,540,082 B2Granted

Tutorial timeline chooser

AssigneeServiceNow, Inc.

InventorTroy Azmoon

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Abstract

Systems, apparatuses, and methods for displaying a tutorial timeline chooser are disclosed. Displaying a tutorial timeline chooser may include generating an output for display, the output including a representation of a tutorial subject, wherein a tutorial associated with the tutorial subject includes a sequence of tutorial units, the output for display including a first portion including the representation of the tutorial subject, and a second portion including a tutorial timeline chooser for controlling the tutorial, wherein the tutorial timeline chooser includes a tutorial timeline and a plurality of tutorial segment indicators, wherein each tutorial segment indicator from the plurality of tutorial segment indicators corresponds with a respective tutorial unit from the sequence tutorial units, and transmitting or storing the output for display.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system for operating a window region of a graphical user interface (GUI) associated with a computer-based tutorial system, comprising:

a processor;
and
a memory having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
generate the GUI for display on a display device, the GUI comprising a tutorial timeline chooser and a context portion, wherein the tutorial timeline chooser includes a plurality of tutorial segment indicators each corresponding to a respective tutorial of a plurality of tutorials, and the context portion comprises a first tutorial window of a plurality of tutorial windows for displaying a first tutorial of the plurality of tutorials and a first control associated with the first tutorial window, wherein the first control is configured to request display of a second tutorial window when selected, wherein the second tutorial window is next in a sequence of the plurality of the tutorial windows;
receive a user selection of a tutorial segment indicator of the plurality of the tutorial segment indicators, wherein the tutorial segment indicator corresponds to the second tutorial window;
and
update the GUI in response to receiving the user selection of the tutorial segment indicator, by:
updating the first control associated with the first tutorial window, wherein the updated first control is configured to close the first tutorial window when selected;
displaying the second tutorial window of the plurality of tutorial windows, wherein the second tutorial window corresponds with the selected tutorial segment indicator;
displaying a second control associated with the second tutorial window, wherein the second control is configured to request display of a third tutorial window when selected, wherein the third tutorial window is next in the sequence of the plurality of the tutorial windows;
and
updating the tutorial timeline chooser to reflect the updates to the context portion.

9 more elements

A tangible, non-transitory, machine-readable medium, comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

generate a graphical user interface (GUI) for display on a display device, the GUI comprising a first tutorial window of a sequence of tutorial windows and a first control associated with the first tutorial window, wherein the first control is configured to request display of a second tutorial window when selected, wherein the second tutorial window is next in the sequence of tutorial windows, and wherein each tutorial window in the sequence of the tutorial windows provides information associated with a corresponding tutorial;
receive a user selection of the first control;
and
update the GUI in response to receiving the user selection of the first control, by:
updating the first control, wherein the updated first control is configured to close the first tutorial window when selected;
displaying the second tutorial window of the sequence of tutorial windows;
and
displaying a second control configured to request display of a third tutorial window when selected, wherein the third tutorial window is next in the sequence of tutorial windows.

5 more elements

A system for operating a window region of a graphical user interface (GUI) associated with a computer-based system, comprising:

a processor;
and
a memory having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
generate the GUI for display on a display device, the GUI comprising a first window of a sequence of windows and a first control associated with the first window, wherein the first control is configured to request display of a second window when selected, wherein the second window is next in of the sequence of the windows, and wherein each window in the sequence of the windows provides information related to a given subject;
receive a user selection of the first control;
and
update the GUI in response to receiving the user selection of the first control, by:
updating the first control, wherein the updated first control is configured to close the first window when selected;
displaying the second window of the sequence of windows;
and
displaying a second control configured to request display of a third window when selected, wherein the third window is next in of the sequence of windows.

8 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/017,745Filed 25 Jun 2018 · continuation
Priority: 31 Dec 2014
Published: US 2018/0307404 A125 Oct 2018
Granted: 21 Jan 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G06F 3/04855
Scrolling or panning: interaction with scrollbars
G09B 5/00
Electrically-operated educational appliances
G09B 5/06
Electrically-operated educational appliances: with both visual and audible presentation of the material to be studied
G06F
Computing and data processing

Family

Application62/098,511Us provisional application · filed 31 Dec 2014
Application14/985,893Parent of this continuation · filed 31 Dec 2015
US 2018/0307404 A1Pre-grant publication · published 25 Oct 2018
US 10,007,414 B1Parent of this continuation
US 10,540,082 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.