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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2018

Filed:

Nov. 20, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventor:

William G. Pagan, Durham, NC (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 9/451 (2018.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 9/44 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/451 (2018.02); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06F 9/4443 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to tabbed browsing and provide a method, system and computer program product for application bar browsing of tabbed-view applications. In one embodiment of the invention a method for application bar browsing of tabbed-view applications can be provided. The method can include populating a pop-up list for a consolidated application bar entry for multiple different instances of a single application with corresponding entries each for a different one of the multiple different instances of the single application. The method further can include associating at least one of the entries in the pop-up list with an instance of the single application configured for tabbed browsing. The method yet further can include configuring the associated at least one of the entries with a tabbed browser view.


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