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US 7,734,474 B2Granted
Display configuration
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorParthasarathy Ranganathan
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Abstract
A display configuration associated with displaying information from at least one source is determined using a cost metric. The cost metric is associated with a cost of displaying information from the source.
Claims21
A method comprising:
- a computer system determining a plurality of display configurations for displaying information from at least one source, wherein each display configuration includes a plurality of windows, and an appearance or location of at least one of the windows is varied per display configuration to cause at least one of a plurality of metrics to vary per display configuration, wherein the plurality of metrics include a usage metric, a power consumption metric, a lifetime metric, and a monetary cost metric;
- for each display configuration, determining the plurality of metrics;
- evaluating each of the display configurations based on the plurality of metrics for each display configuration;
- and
- selecting one of the plurality of display configurations based on the evaluation.
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A method of displaying information on a display, the method comprising:
- a computer system determining a plurality of display configurations for displaying information from a plurality of users, wherein each display configuration includes a plurality of windows and each window displays information for a different user, and an appearance or location of at least one of the windows is varied per display configuration to cause at least one of a plurality of metrics to vary per display configuration, wherein the plurality of metrics include a usage metric, a power consumption metric, a lifetime metric, and a monetary cost metric;
- determining the plurality of metrics for each display configuration;
- evaluating each of the display configurations based on the plurality of metrics;
- selecting one of the plurality of display configurations based on the evaluation;
- and
- providing the display configuration on the display.
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An apparatus comprising:
- means for receiving information from a plurality of users;
- means for determining a plurality of display configurations for displaying information from the plurality of users, wherein each display configuration includes a plurality of windows and each window displays information for a different user, and an appearance or location of at least one of the windows is varied per display configuration to cause at least one of a plurality of metrics to vary per display configuration, wherein the plurality of metrics include a usage metric, a power consumption metric, a lifetime metric, and a monetary cost metric;
- means for determining the plurality of metrics for each display configuration;
- and
- means for selecting one of the plurality of display configurations based on the plurality of metrics determined for each display configuration.
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Computer software embedded on a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer software comprising instructions of:
- determining a plurality of display configurations for displaying information from at least one source, wherein each display configuration includes a plurality of windows, and an appearance or location of at least one of the windows is varied per display configuration to cause at least one of a plurality of metrics to vary per display configuration, wherein the plurality of metrics include a usage metric, a power consumption metric, a lifetime metric, and a monetary cost metric;
- for each display configuration, determining the plurality of metrics;
- evaluating each of the display configurations based on the plurality of metrics for each display configuration;
- and
- selecting one of the plurality of display configurations based on the evaluation.
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A computing system comprising:
- at least one interface operable to receive information from a plurality of users;
- a processor operable to
- determine a plurality of display configurations for displaying the information, wherein each display configuration includes a plurality of windows and each window displays information for a different user, and an appearance or location of at least one of the windows is varied per display configuration to cause at least one of a plurality of metrics to vary per display configuration, wherein the plurality of metrics include a usage metric, a power consumption metric, a lifetime metric, and a monetary cost metric,
- evaluate each of the display configurations based on the plurality of metrics for each display configuration, and
- select a display configuration from the plurality of display configurations based on the evaluation of each of the display configurations;
- and
- a display operable to display the selected display configuration of the information, the display configuration being a visual representation of the information on the display.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.