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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 13, 1994
Brendan X MacLean, Seattle, WA (US);
Bradford A Christian, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus are provided for docking re-sizeable graphical user interface (GUI) boxes to a docking region located along a side of a primary GUI box with which the dock is associated. When a first GUI box becomes associated with a dock so that at least one resizeable GUI box is associated with a row of the dock to which the first GUI box is to be added, the dimensions of at least one GUI box associated with the row of the dock are altered automatically so that the docked GUI box occupies a prescribed length of a row of the dock. In a row containing at least two re-sizeable GUI boxes, a row minor splitter detection region is provided for simultaneously altering the along dimension of at least two of the re-sizeable GUI boxes. In a row containing at least one re-sizeable GUI box, a row major splitter detection region is provided for modifying the across dimension of the row and all re-sizeable windows contained in the row.