Context monitoring display driver
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorWilliam Deleeuw
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Abstract
A computer system includes a display device, a storage device on which an application program is stored, and a processor. The processor retrieves the application program from the storage device and, under control of the application program, generates or receives a text string to be displayed on the display device. An information management engine receives the text string and uses it to generate a list of sources of information related to the text string. A display driver delivers the text string both to the display device for rendering and to the information management engine. The display driver also receives the list from the information management engine and delivers it to the display device for rendering.
Claims29
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- automatically intercepting, in a context-monitoring driver, text data in machine-display output requests generated by an operating system or application program;
- and
- delivering the intercepted text data to an information management engine that determines a semantic context indicated at least in part by the text data.
An article comprising a computer-readable storage medium embodying information indicative of instructions that when performed by one or more machines result in operations comprising:
- automatically intercepting, in a context-monitoring driver, text data in machine-display output requests generated by an operating system or application program;
- and
- delivering the intercepted text data to an information management engine that determines a semantic context indicated at least in part by the text data.
An article comprising a computer-readable storage medium embodying information indicative of instructions that when performed by one or more machines result in operations comprising:
- installing program and data files of a semantic context-monitoring display driver that automatically intercepts text data in machine-display output requests generated by an operating system or application program;
- locating an address of an existing display driver;
- substituting the context-monitoring display driver for the existing display driver in system configuration settings;
- and
- initiating a reboot that causes loading of the context-monitoring display driver.
An apparatus comprising:
- computer-based context-monitoring means for automatically intercepting text data as the text data is delivered to a display driver from an operating system or application program;
- and
- computer-based means for determining a semantic context indicated at least in part by the text data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.