GUI-base application system and method for displaying warnings of the same

A GUI-base message display apparatus including a processor that executes an application by shifting display of a series of setting screens and determines when to highlight a predetermined content of the current setting screen i, the display apparatus comprising:

• means for recording, by the processor, numbers and display times of a series of plurality of setting screens displayed in a process of transition;
• means for assigning, by the processor, degrees of forgetting of a current setting screen which is shifted from other setting screens that are displayed in the process of transition from a previous setting screen to the current setting screen;
• means for evaluating, by the processor, a total degree of forgetting of the current setting screen in consideration of all the degrees of forgetting in transition from the other setting screens displayed in the process of transition, wherein the degrees of forgetting V(i, j) in the case where the current setting screen i shifts from the individual setting screens j displayed in the process of transition are independently added, the total degree of forgetting L(i) is a sum total of the products of the degrees of forgetting V(i, j) of the current setting screen i shifted from individual setting screens j in the process of transition and the display times Tj at the individual screen settings j, the degrees of forgetting V(i, j) of the current setting screen i shifted from the individual setting screens j in the process of transition are defined by inversely proportional relevance ratios R(i, j) between the individual setting screens j in the process of transition from the previous setting screen i to the current setting screen i and the current setting screen i, and the relevance ratios R(i, i) are given by quantifying the degree of transition operation from the individual setting screens j to the current setting screen i in accordance with the degree of transition operation between the setting screens of the application;
• means for determining, by the processor, forgetting threshold values for the individual setting screens on the basis of the degree of importance of the application;
• means for comparing the total degree of forgetting with the forgetting threshold values;
• and means for highlighting a predetermined content of the current setting screen in the case where the total degree of forgetting is lower than the forgetting threshold values.

A non-transient physical computer storage medium comprising a program product for GUI-base message display that executes an application by shifting display of a series of setting screens and determines when to highlight a predetermined content of the current setting screen i, the non-transient physical computer storage medium comprising:

• computer-usable program code for recording numbers and display times of a series of plurality of setting screens displayed in a process of transition;
• computer-usable program code for assigning degrees of forgetting of the current setting screen which is shifted from other setting screens that are displayed in the process of transition from the previous setting screen to the current setting screen;
• computer-usable program code for evaluating the total degree of forgetting of the current setting screen in consideration of all the degrees of forgetting in transition from the other setting screens displayed in the process of transition, wherein the degrees of forgetting V(i, i) in the case where the current setting screen i shifts from the individual setting screens i displayed in the process of transition are independently added, the total degree of forgetting L(i) is a sum total of the products of the degrees of forgetting V(i, j) of the current setting screen i shifted from individual setting screens j in the process of transition and the display times Tj at the individual screen settings j, the degrees of forgetting V(i, j) of the current setting screen i shifted from the individual setting screens j in the process of transition are defined by inversely proportional relevance ratios R (i, j) between the individual setting screens j in the process of transition from the previous setting screen i to the current setting screen i and the current setting screen i, and the relevance ratios R(i, j) are given by quantifying the degree of transition operation from the individual setting screens j to the current setting screen i in accordance with the degree of transition operation between the setting screens of the application;
• computer-usable program code for determining forgetting threshold values for the individual setting screens on the basis of the degree of importance of the application;
• computer-usable program code for comparing the total degree of forgetting with the forgetting threshold values;
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• computer-usable program code for highlighting a predetermined content of the current setting screen in the case where the total degree of forgetting is lower than the forgetting threshold values.