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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2013
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Miron Vranjes, Seattle, WA (US);
Jesse Clay Satterfield, Seattle, WA (US);
Matthew Isaac Worley, Bellevue, WA (US);
Chaitanya Sareen, Seattle, WA (US);
Nils Anders Sundelin, Bothell, WA (US);
Abhishek Malani, Redmond, WA (US);
Alice Steinglass, Bellevue, WA (US);
Robert James Jarrett, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An application window divider control is shared by a first application window and a second application window in a user interface. Based on a received directional instruction that moves the application window divider control along an axis of the user interface, placement of the first application window and the second application window may be positioned across a range of consistently spaced points along an axis of the user interface. Placement adjustment can also impact other application windows in the user interface. The application window divider control may also snap to provide 'magnetic' points along the axis when certain conditions are satisfied.