Discreetly displaying contextually relevant information
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsJohnson Apacible, Tim Paek, Allen Herring, Mark J. Encarnación, Woon Kiat Wong
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
The claimed subject matter provides a method for receiving and displaying contextually relevant information to a user. The method includes receiving automatically-updated contextually relevant information at a display device. The contextually relevant information includes information that is at least in part associated with the user. The display device then displays the contextually relevant information discreetly to the user.
Claims20
A method for receiving and displaying contextually relevant information to a user, the method comprising:
- receiving automatically-updated contextually relevant information at a display device, the contextually relevant information including information that is at least in part associated with the user;
- and
- displaying the contextually relevant information discreetly to the user.
A display device for receiving and displaying contextually relevant information to a user, the display device comprising:
- a display module;
- a processing unit;
- a system memory, wherein the system memory comprises code configured to direct the processing unit to:
- receive contextually relevant information, the contextually relevant information including information that is automatically derived from at least a location of the user and schedule data associated with the user;
- and
- cause the contextually relevant information to be displayed on the display module,
- wherein the contextually relevant information is displayed to the user discreetly.
A method for displaying contextually relevant information to a user, the method comprising:
- accessing user account information to determine a time of a scheduled event in a calendar associated with the user;
- automatically generating reminder information based at least in part on the determined time of the scheduled event;
- receiving the automatically-generated reminder information at a display device;
- and
- displaying the automatically-generated reminder information discreetly to the user on a bi-stable display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.