Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Julia Margaret Binger

Benjamin M Schultz

Amber Tianqi Guo

Jyotirmaya Tripathi

Rayman Faruk Aeron

Masato Maeda

Matthew James Wilson

Timothy Daniel Barber

Jong Gyu Lee

Shanmugha Priya Satheesh

To provide a hierarchical visual paradigm while maintaining the communication advantages of sibling extensions, a visual hierarchy simulation extension generates and maintains placeholders in a visually hierarchical manner, with the visual positioning of such placeholders informing the visual positioning of overlays of frames hosting the visual output of sibling extensions. Such a visual hierarchy simulation extension is utilized to layout and establish a desired visual hierarchy. One or more modules of computer-executable instructions are invoked to provide the relevant functionality, including the obtaining of the visual positioning of placeholders, the relevant visual translation between the visual positioning of placeholders and the visual overlaying of corresponding frames, the generation and movement of the corresponding frames, and the instantiation of extension content within the corresponding frames. The visual hierarchy simulation extension is hosted independently from the one or more modules.

Simulated visual hierarchy while facilitating cross-extension communication

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Julia Margaret Binger