Patent ID: 8037414

Claim:
A method, comprising: (a) providing, by a user interface, information to a user, the information comprising a plurality of user selectable objects, the objects being one or more of an icon or part thereof, a window or part thereof, a data field, a file folder, a link, a computer display control, a tool bar or part thereof, a desktop or part thereof, a clickable hot spot, and a drop down menu; and (b) as a pointer and/or programmatic focus indicator changes position on the user interface, playing, by a driver, a plurality of audible locating signals to identify spatial locations of a portion of the displayed information and/or successive locations of the pointer and/or programmatic focus indicator, wherein the locating signals indicate a location relative to a three-dimensional coordinate system, wherein in an X dimension a first acoustic parameter of the locating signals is varied, and in a Y dimension a second acoustic parameter of the locating signals is varied, and in a third dimension a third acoustic parameter of the locating signals is varied, wherein: each spatial location of the portion of the displayed information has a unique set of first and second acoustic parameters, the plurality of audible locating signals of the pointer and/or programmatic focus indicator in the X and Y dimensions in the user interface are provided by frequencies at or below 1500Hz, changes in the X dimension use time-shifting to provide an audible difference of how the plurality of audible locating signals are perceived by a user's left ear versus right ear, with the time-shifting being an amount that is associated with a phase difference for a spatial location corresponding to the locating signal, and changes in the Y dimension are represented by a change to the frequency that is at or below 1500Hz.