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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2002
David P. Vronay, Bellevue, WA (US);
Lili Cheng, Bellevue, WA (US);
Baining Guo, Beijing, CN;
Sean U. Kelly, Seattle, WA (US);
David P. Vronay, Bellevue, WA (US);
Lili Cheng, Bellevue, WA (US);
Baining Guo, Beijing, CN;
Sean U. Kelly, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An operating system shell provides on a display screen a graphical user interface through which a user interacts with the operating system. The operating system shell provides a background noisy display rendered on the display screen in accordance with a background physical lighting model, and an ambient notification rendered over at least a portion of the background noisy display to provide a user notification. The ambient notification is rendered in accordance with an ambient notification physical lighting model that is different from the background physical lighting model.