Sensory feedback indicators for transactional processes

US9704144B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Tushar Agrawal · West Fargo, US
• Serge Baduk · East Setauket, US
• Robert A. Balfe · Whitesboro, US
• Victoria O. Odeyemi · Toronto, CA
• Sridhar Satuloori · Nalgonda, IN
• Jason A. Smith · Vernon Hills, US
• Craig M. Trim · Ventura, US
• Vivek Verma · Bengaluru, IN
• Albert T.Y. Wong · La Puente, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 12, 2016
• Grant date: Jul 11, 2017
• Expiry date: Feb 12, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L67/02
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method for providing web transaction feedback includes a client device receiving a response indicating a success or a failure of a user operation pertaining to a potential web transaction. The client device then provides a web transaction feedback to the user using a human interface element capable of causing the client device to perform a set of motions and/or emit a range of temperatures. The set of motions is comprised of at least a first sub-set of the set of motions indicating the success of the user operation and at least a second sub-set of the set of motions indicating the failure of the user operation. The range of temperatures is comprised of at least a first temperature of the range of temperatures indicating the success of the user operation and at least a second temperature of the range of temperatures indicating the failure of the user operation.