POSITIONING AND RENDERING NOTIFICATON HERALDS BASED ON USER'S FOCUS OF ATTENTION AND ACTIVITY

摘要

The present invention relates to a system and method to facilitate providing computer users with efficient access to electronic notifications while minimizing disruption in the context of ongoing tasks. A notification system (120) provides visual information heralds (160) that provide summarizations of notifications to users. An information controller (130) considers the importance or urgency of content and a user's current and/or recent activities in decisions about the rendering and positioning of the information herald (160) on a display screen or screens (150,170) in order to facilitate user processing of the summarized notifications with minimal disruption to ongoing tasks.