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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 20, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Jensen M. Harris, Seattle, WA (US);
Aaron M. Butcher, Duvall, WA (US);
David A. Morton, Redmond, WA (US);
Jesse Clay Satterfield, Seattle, WA (US);
Justin Denney, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An improved user interface is provided for displaying selectable software functionality controls and for presenting logical groupings of particular functionality controls associated with a selected top-level functionality. Underneath a row of top-level functionality tabs, functionalities controls associated with a given top-level functionality tab are presented in logical groupings. Selection of a particular tab switches modes of the user interface to present controls for functionalities associated with the selected tab.