RENDERING TEACHING ANIMATIONS ON USER INTERFACE DISPLAY Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC G06F3/488 G06F3/14 

FIELD: physics, computer engineering.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to user graphic interfaces and more specifically to teaching animations which demonstrate manual gestures recognised by a writing-pad tool. Initially, the writing-pad tool is interrogated to determine the context of a computing environment associated with a touch screen interface. Determining involves recognising the current condition of the writing-pad tool based on whether text is provided within a content-entry area generated thereby, ascertaining whether the focus of a cursor tool resides within the content-entry area based on whether a portion of the text is selected, and ascertaining which actions are available for invocation in the writing-pad tool based on the current condition and the focus of the cursor. The context of the computing environment is used to identify which teaching animations to promote to an active state. The promoted teaching animations are associated with the actions ascertained as available for invocation.

EFFECT: improving practical user operation using gestures as the primary way of interacting with a computing device.

18 cl, 9 dwg