Patent ID: 7742923

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of facilitating interaction with a user by managing an output display device associated with a computing device, the method comprising: receiving a request from the user for interaction assistance; responding to the request by layering a control indication scheme over an application display, wherein the application display is a graphical user interface visibly rendered on the output display device; wherein layering the control indication scheme comprises visibly rendering, on the output display device, a bounding box around each of a plurality of control items exposed as part of the application display; wherein layering also comprises rendering, on the output display device, a visible identifier positioned within each bounding box; and wherein said bounding boxes and visible identifiers are layered over the application display in that they are simultaneously rendered on the output display device with the application display but are not part of the application display itself; receiving a spoken indication from the user; identifying a particular one of the plurality of control items that corresponds to the spoken indication; and altering the appearance of the control indication scheme as rendered on the output display device so as to visually emphasize the particular control item that corresponds to the spoken indication.