Providing help on visual components displayed on touch screens
AssigneeOracle International Corporation
InventorSUBRAMANIAM RAMASUBRAMANIAN
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Abstract
An aspect of the present disclosure provides help on visual components of interest displayed on a touch screen. In an embodiment, a help icon is displayed along with visual components generated for interaction with an application. The user is permitted to associate the help icon with a visual component of interest (for example, by dragging and dropping the help icon on the visual component), and help passage associated with the visual component is displayed as a response. As the user can accurately indicate the visual components of interest, the relevant help passages can be accurately identified and displayed.
Claims20
A method of providing help on visual components of interest displayed on a touch screen, wherein said method is performed in a digital processing system containing said touch screen, said method comprising:
- sending for display a help icon along with a plurality of visual components on said touch screen;
- receiving one or more touch signals indicating that said help icon has been associated with a visual component of interest;
- retrieving a help passage associated with the visual component of interest;
- and
- sending for display said help passage on said touch screen.
A non-transitory machine readable storage medium storing one or more sequences of instructions for enabling a digital processing system to provide help on visual components of interest displayed on a touch screen in said digital processing system, wherein execution of said one or more instructions by one or more processors contained in said digital processing system causes said digital processing system to perform the actions of:
- sending for display a help icon along with a plurality of visual components on said touch screen;
- receiving one or more touch signals indicating that said help icon has been associated with a visual component of interest;
- retrieving a help passage associated with the visual component of interest;
- and
- sending for display said help passage on said touch screen.
A digital processing system comprising:
- a touch screen;
- a memory;
- and
- a processor
- wherein said processor to retrieve instructions from said memory and execute the retrieved instructions, causing said digital processing system to perform the actions of:
- send for display a help icon along with a plurality of visual components on said touch screen;
- receive one or more touch signals from said touch screen indicating that said help icon has been associated with a visual component of interest;
- retrieve, from said memory, a help passage associated with the visual component of interest;
- and
- sending for display said help passage on said touch screen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.