Claims
- 1. A data processing system comprising:a display with a graphical user interface (GUI) for enabling user interaction with a plurality of menu options; and an adapter for automatically and dynamically arranging the menu options in the GUI to reduce user-navigation among the options, wherein the adapter is capable of respective arrangements of the menu options for respective individual ones of multiple users, the GUI comprises a user identity selector for enabling the adapter to discriminate between the multiple users, and the user identity selector comprises respective user-selectable representations for respective ones of the multiple users in a predetermined location on the display.
- 2. A data processing system comprising:a display with a graphical user interface (GUI) for enabling user interaction with a plurality of menu options; and an adapter for automatically and dynamically arranging the menu options in the GUI to reduce user-navigation among the options, wherein the GUI comprises multiple pages, the adapter dynamically arranges specific ones of the menu options to particular ones of the multiple pages, and the adapter allocates first and second ones of the menu options as a group to a single one of the multiple pages.
RELATED APPLICATIONS
The present application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. Pat. application Ser. No. 09/434,155 filed Nov. 4, 1999, which is incorporated-herein by reference. The following patent applications are also incorporated herein by reference:
U.S. Ser. No. 09/062,364 filed Apr. 17, 1998;
U.S. Ser. No. 09/128,839 filed Aug. 4, 1998;
U.S. Ser. No. 09/129,300 filed Aug. 5, 1998;
U.S. Ser. No. 09/271,200 filed Mar. 17, 1999;
U.S. Ser. No. 09/311,128 filed May 13, 1999;
U.S. Ser. No. 09/210,416 filed Dec. 11, 1998;
U.S. Ser. No. 09/217,414 filed Dec. 21, 1998;
U.S. Ser. No. 09/544,666 filed Apr. 4, 2000;
U.S. Pat. No. 5,956,025.
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Non-Patent Literature Citations (1)
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Billsus and Pazzani, “Learning Probabilistic User Models”, May 14, 1997. |
Continuation in Parts (1)
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09/434155 |
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09/594212 |
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