Patent ID: 8898571

Claim:
A method for displaying, for a same setting screen, content of a current setting screen shifted from a previous setting screen in a GUI-base message display apparatus that executes an application by shifting display of a series of setting screens ( 1 , 2 , 3 , . . . , i, . . . , j, . . . , and i) and determine when to highlight a predetermined content of the current setting screen i, the method comprising the steps of: recording numbers and display times of a series of a plurality of setting screens displayed in a process of transition using a processing device; assigning, using the processing device, degrees of forgetting V(i, j) of the current setting screen i which is shifted from other setting screens j that are displayed in the process of transition from a previous setting screen i to the current setting screen i; evaluating, using the processing device, a total degree of forgetting L(i) of the current setting screen i in consideration of all the degrees of forgetting V(i, j) in transition from the other setting screens j displayed in the process of transition, wherein the degrees of forgetting V(i, j) in the case where the current setting screen i shifts from the individual setting screens j displayed in the process of transition are independently added, the total degree of forgetting L(i) is a sum total of the products of the degrees of forgetting V(i, j) of the current setting screen i shifted from individual setting screens j in the process of transition and the display times Tj at the individual screen settings j, the degrees of forgetting V(i, j) of the current setting screen i shifted from the individual setting screens j in the process of transition are defined by inversely proportional relevance ratios R(i, j) between the individual setting screens j in the process of transition from the previous setting screen i to the current setting screen i and the current setting screen i, and the relevance ratios R(i, j) are given by quantifying the degree of transition operation from the individual setting screens j to the current setting screen i in accordance with the degree of transition operation between the setting screens of the application; determining, using the processing device, forgetting threshold values N(i) to individual setting screens on a basis of degree of importance of the application; comparing, using the processing device, the total degree of forgetting L(i) with the forgetting threshold values N(i); and highlighting, using the processing device, a predetermined content of the current setting screen i in a case where the total degree of forgetting L(i) is lower than the forgetting threshold values N(i).