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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2021
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Julia Margaret Binger, Seattle, WA (US);
Timothy Daniel Barber, Snohomish, WA (US);
Masato Maeda, Sammamish, WA (US);
Matthew James Wilson, Duvall, WA (US);
Rayman Faruk Aeron, Bothell, WA (US);
Amber Tianqi Guo, Seattle, WA (US);
Shanmugha Priya Satheesh, Redmond, WA (US);
Benjamin M Schultz, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jyotirmaya Tripathi, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jong Gyu Lee, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
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.