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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2004
Filed:
May. 04, 2000
Chee H. Chew, Redmond, WA (US);
Elizabeth A. Bastiaanse, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jeffrey R. Blum, Seattle, WA (US);
Christen E. Coomer, Seattle, WA (US);
Mark H. Enomoto, Seattle, WA (US);
Greg A. Keyser, Sammamish, WA (US);
Kathryn L. Parker, Fall City, WA (US);
William H. Vong, Redmond, WA (US);
Sarah E. Zuberec, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The hand-held computing device user interface (UI) of the present invention displays information for an active application program in a middle portion of the screen, and displays a shell program controlled navigation bar at a top portion of the screen. The navigation bar includes a navigation icon which when tapped by the stylus aids the user in navigating to other application programs. The navigation bar also includes a title for the active application program, thus saving vertical real estate on the screen. The UI of the present invention also displays an application menu bar at a bottom portion of the screen so that the user of the hand-held device can manipulate data from the active application by tapping menu items with a stylus without blocking view of the middle portion of the display.