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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2000
Joseph H. Matthews, Woodinville, WA (US);
Stephen P. Capps, Seattle, WA (US);
Richard W. Stoakley, Seattle, WA (US);
Joe D. Belfiore, Seattle, WA (US);
Walter W. Smith, Normandy Park, WA (US);
Bradley M. Schick, Seattle, WA (US);
Samuel J. Mckelvie, Seattle, WA (US);
Robert V. Welland, Seattle, WA (US);
John P. Cordell, Seattle, WA (US);
Joseph H. Matthews, Woodinville, WA (US);
Stephen P. Capps, Seattle, WA (US);
Richard W. Stoakley, Seattle, WA (US);
Joe D. Belfiore, Seattle, WA (US);
Walter W. Smith, Normandy Park, WA (US);
Bradley M. Schick, Seattle, WA (US);
Samuel J. McKelvie, Seattle, WA (US);
Robert V. Welland, Seattle, WA (US);
John P. Cordell, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A user interface for navigating among screens on a personal computer. The screens, which include layers of a shell user interface and various locations within applications, are presented as pages. In addition, commands and help information of an application are presented as a web of command pages. To this end, a unit of measure, called a 'place' is defined. In general, an application is a place, and separate documents within an application may also define a place. Separate command windows and dialog boxes within an application or a document typically do not define a place. Backwards navigation takes the user to the previous place, and forward navigation (if possible) takes the user to the next place. Because the underlying data for a page may change between an initial visit to a page and navigation back to the page, data objects and page code are maintained separately, and are combined only when a request for a page is made.