Adaptive progress indicator
AssigneeAgilent Technologies, Inc.
InventorVictoria Eigel-Danielson
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Abstract
A method for informing a user of the status of a computer operation having multiple concurrent tasks, comprising maintaining multiple variables, wherein each one of said multiple variables represents the progress of a corresponding one of said multiple tasks; comparing said multiple variables to determine a superior variable, wherein said superior variable is selected based upon at least one predetermined performance criterion; and outputting said superior variable at least once during said computer operation.
Claims11
A method for informing a user of the status of a computer operation having multiple concurrent tasks, comprising:
- a. maintaining multiple variables, wherein each one of said multiple variables represents the progress of a corresponding one of said multiple tasks;
- b. comparing said multiple variables to determine a superior variable, wherein said superior variable is selected based upon at least one predetermined performance criterion;
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- c. outputting said superior variable at least once during said computer operation, wherein a first of said multiple variables corresponds to a progress of a search of a data repository during a search inquiry and a second of said multiple variables corresponds to a progress of filling a display repository in association with the search inquiry.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.