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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2004
William Hill, Carnation, WA (US);
Gregory C. Hitchcock, Woodinville, WA (US);
Kevin Larson, Seattle, WA (US);
William Hill, Carnation, WA (US);
Gregory C. Hitchcock, Woodinville, WA (US);
Kevin Larson, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for matching digital information flow to the human perception system. In various embodiments, multi-monitor (multimon) support is leveraged to take advantage of multiple windowing and window positioning to separate elements of different tasks into information planes (which are based on a concept of 'triage and focus'). Triage watches the flow of incoming information and determines the nature of the information. Based on the nature of the information and principles of human perception, Focus (or defocus) displays the information where the information is best viewed.