Patent ID: 9146670
Filing Date: 2015-09-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: presenting, at a computing device and in a visible region of an interface, a set of tiles associated with a set of applications; determining, at the computing device, a subset of the set of tiles, the subset comprising at least two tiles, each tile of the subset: determining, at the computing device, that the determined subset of tiles comprises a quantity of tiles that exceeds a pre-determined threshold, the pre-determined threshold comprising a number of tiles or a fraction of tiles of the set of tiles; indicating, in a first tile of the subset of tiles within the visible region, that new content is available for the first tile; delaying indication of the availability of new content in a second tile of the subset of tiles based on the determination that the subset of tiles exceeds the pre-determined threshold, the delaying effective to avoid visually overloading or over-stimulating a user of the computing device; and indicating, in the second tile of the subset of tiles within the visible region, that new content is available for the second tile.