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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2013
Tesla Motors, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Brennan Boblett, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nalinichandra Penke, Fremont, CA (US);
Roy Goldman, Cupertino, CA (US);
Michael Fairman, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Kevin Hsieh, Redwood City, CA (US);
TESLA, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of launching a software program or application is provided for use with a graphical user interface (GUI) display. One portion of the GUI display includes a taskbar while a second portion is divided into a plurality of windows. To launch one of the programs/applications represented by the icons within the taskbar, the user first selects the icon representing the icon to be launched. When the user drags the selected icon into one of the windows and then releases the icon, the selected program/application is launched in the selected window.