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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2022
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Leo Tian Yue, Redmond, WA (US);
Kenneth Martin Tubbs, Jr., Issaquah, WA (US);
Stacy Diane Carson, Seattle, WA (US);
Peter Josef Kreiseder, Redmond, WA (US);
Bret Paul Anderson, Seattle, WA (US);
Sailesh Dahal, Bellevue, WA (US);
Neil Agarwal, Seattle, WA (US);
Gregory Thomas Mattox, Jr., Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for controlling window arrangements for tabbed user interface elements. An example method includes displaying a plurality of application windows including at least one application window for a web browser application having multiple open tabs, the multiple open tabs including at least one active tab and multiple inactive tabs, receiving an input to invoke a snap assist mode; in response to the input, display a snap assist user interface to reconfigure the display of one or more the plurality of the application windows, the snap assist user interface including tab representations and an application-window representation. In response to receiving a selection of a tab representation, a web browser application window is displayed with the corresponding tab as the active tab.