US 2015/0149900 A1 · TERMINAL DEVICE, ANNOTATION METHOD, COMPUTER SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

Abstract

A terminal device, which can reduce a calculation amount for displaying an annotation text, an annotation method, a computer system, and a computer program. A plurality of annotation rules created for each window in which an annotation text is to be displayed are accumulated in an annotation DB, which of windows displayed on an operation screen is an active window is always monitored by a business screen state acquisition section, and when annotation display operation is performed by a user, an annotation display section obtains an annotation rule of an active window associated with the user's operation from the annotation DB and displays an annotation text included in the annotation rule on the operation screen.

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Dependent claims

A terminal device comprising:

an annotation database which accumulates a plurality of annotation rules created for each window in which an annotation text is to be displayed;
a business screen state acquisition section which always monitors which of windows displayed on an operation screen on which a plurality of windows can be displayed is an active window and requests, when through searching of the annotation database an annotation rule corresponding to the active window exists in the annotation database and annotation display operation is performed by the user, an annotation display section to display an annotation text;
and
the annotation display section which obtains an annotation rule associated with user's operation from the annotation database in response to the request from the business screen state acquisition section and displays an annotation text included in the annotation rule on the operation screen.

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An annotation method comprising:

a data accumulating step of accumulating a plurality of annotation rules created for each window in which an annotation text is to be displayed in an annotation database formed in a rewritable storage section;
a monitor step of, after the data accumulating step, always monitoring which of windows displayed on an operation screen on which a plurality of windows can be displayed is an active window;
and
a display step of obtaining, when through searching of the annotation database an annotation rule corresponding to the active window exists in the annotation database and annotation display operation is performed by a user, an annotation rule associated with the user's operation from the annotation database and displaying an annotation text included in the annotation rule on the operation screen,
wherein the monitor step and the display step are executed in parallel.

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A computer system comprising as a client terminal a terminal device comprising:

an annotation database which accumulates a plurality of annotation rules created for each window in which an annotation text is to be displayed;
a business screen state acquisition section which always monitors which of windows displayed on an operation screen on which a plurality of windows can be displayed is an active window and requests, when through searching of the annotation database an annotation rule corresponding to the active window exists in the annotation database and annotation display operation is performed by the user, an annotation display section to display an annotation text;
and
the annotation display section which obtains an annotation rule associated with user's operation from the annotation database in response to the request from the business screen state acquisition section and displays an annotation text included in the annotation rule on the operation screen,
the client terminal being connected to a server through a communication network,
wherein the server comprises a server-side annotation database accumulating an annotation rule equivalent to an annotation rule accumulated in an annotation database of the client terminal, and
the annotation database of the client terminal is synchronized with a change applied to an annotation rule accumulated in the annotation database itself and indicates a change the same as the change to the server-side annotation database.

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A computer readable storage media containing executable computer program instructions which when executed cause a terminal device comprising a computer apparatus to execute an annotation method comprising:

a data accumulating step of accumulating a plurality of annotation rules created for each window in which an annotation text is to be displayed in an annotation database formed in a rewritable storage section;
a monitor step of, after the data accumulating step, always monitoring which of windows displayed on an operation screen on which a plurality of windows can be displayed is an active window;
and
a display step of obtaining, when through searching of the annotation database an annotation rule corresponding to the active window exists in the annotation database and annotation display operation is performed by a user, an annotation rule associated with the user's operation from the annotation database and displaying an annotation text included in the annotation rule on the operation screen,
wherein the monitor step and the display step are executed in parallel.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Terminal device, annotation method, computer system, and computer program

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Terminal device, annotation method, computer system, and computer program

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Abstract

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