US 10,579,228 B2Granted

Method and system for configuring selection of contextual dashboards

AssigneeSynacor, Inc.

InventorsGabor Vida, Stephen Mackenzie, Anthony Macdonnell

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Abstract

An electronic device may have multiple users and multiple customized user interfaces for each user resulting in a large number of user customized UI dashboard configurations. However, defining these user customized UI dashboard configurations is performed by each user such that addition and/or replacement of software applications requires users to reconfigure customized UI dashboards. Similarly, organization generated dashboards must be configured on each user device. It would be beneficial for such user customized UI dashboard configurations to be updateable in response to information provided during new software installation, software upgrades etc or for UI dashboard configurations to be adjusted absent any such update/upgrade. It would also be beneficial for context rules to be adaptable based upon learned behavior or external adjustments just as it would be beneficial for the context rule engine to automatically identify new potential rules as a result of current and previous behavior.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A method comprising the steps of:

(a) executing a context rule engine upon device comprising at least a microprocessor comprising at least a context rule of a plurality of context rules, each context rule determining a user interface to display in dependence the result of applying a context rule meeting a predetermined condition;
(b) receiving with the microprocessor context data relating to a plurality of factors;
(c) determining in dependence upon the context data and the plurality of context rules that none of the context rules meet the predetermined condition;
(d) automatically establishing a new potential rule obtained from a plurality of potential rules in a potential rule database with the context rule engine by varying a predetermined portion of the context rules when none of the context rules meet the predetermined condition;
(e) determining that the new potential rule is closer to the predetermined condition than the context rules of the plurality of context rules;
and
(f) upon a positive determination in step (e) adding the new potential rule to the plurality of context rules.

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Facts

Application: 14/760,353Filed 8 Jan 2014 · us provisional application
Priority: 11 Jan 2013
Published: US 2016/0188145 A130 Jun 2016
Granted: 3 Mar 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification23 codes

G06F 3/0484
Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]: for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or…
B60K 35/10
Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles: input arrangements, i.e. from user to vehicle,…
B60K 35/223
Display screens: flexible displays
B60K 35/265
Using acoustic output: voice