Patent ID: 9727348
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04M

Claim:
1. A method comprising: after a help mode is triggered and before a transparent layer is displayed, collecting objects shown on a display interface for a running application and identifications (IDs) representing the objects, wherein a state of the display interface at the time of the collecting does not show a help indicia next to all of the objects for which help contents are available; for each of the objects for which identifications were collected and before the transparent layer is displayed, determining whether there are object identifications of the objects with help contents associated; and without modifying a positioning of element in the display interface from that of the state, displaying the transparent layer over the display interface and visually indicating in the transparent layer all the objects with help contents associated to prompt a user to select a desired object, wherein at a time that the visual indicating occurs via the transparent layer, the help contents are not displayed in either the transparent layer or the display interface, wherein displayed transparent layer is configured to receive and handle events associated with the objects in the underlying layer of display interface; receiving a user selection of one of the objects that is visually indicated as having help contents associated, responsive to the receiving, displaying help contents associated with the one of the objects, wherein displaying the help contents causes the help indicator to no longer be presented.