Persistent Session Region for Sensor-Aware Status Updates
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current user interfaces for electronic devices with touch-sensitive surfaces are cumbersome and inefficient, requiring sequences of mouse-based inputs to manipulate user interface objects, which increases cognitive burden and energy consumption, especially in battery-operated devices.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of methods and interfaces that allow for faster and more efficient interaction by displaying status information and application controls within a persistent session region, using visual, audio, and tactile feedback to reduce the number of inputs needed and enhance user interaction, while maintaining real-time updates and biometric enrollment processes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional mouse-based input sequences are used to manipulate user interface objects, then user interface functionality is achieved, but cognitive burden and operation time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple user interface functions (status information display, application controls, and interaction elements) into a single persistent session region. This merging eliminates the need for users to navigate between separate windows or menus, reducing the number of input sequences required and decreasing cognitive burden while maintaining full functionality.
2Ease of operation
If conventional user interface methods are used, then application controls are accessible, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The persistent session region maintains continuous display of status information and application controls without requiring users to repeatedly open menus or navigate to different screens. This continuity reduces the frequency of display updates and processor activity, thereby lowering energy consumption while keeping controls continuously accessible.
3Loss of information
If status information is displayed in separate windows, then information is visible, but interface complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges status information display, application controls, and interaction elements into a single integrated persistent session region. This consolidation reduces interface complexity by eliminating the need for multiple separate windows or menus while ensuring all status information remains visible and accessible within the unified interface structure.
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AI summary
A computer system displays, in a first display region, a first user interface object that includes status information provided by respective software about a state of the computer system, wherein the first display region encompasses one or more sensor regions. The computer system displays, in a second display region that is different from the first display region, a user interface of an application that is different from the respective software, wherein the second display region at least partially surrounds the first display region. As the state of the computer system changes, the computer system displays in the first user interface object updated status information provided by the respective software about the changed state of the computer system, wherein the updated status information includes visual elements that are selected so as to avoid overlapping locations of the one or more sensors in the first display region.