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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2005
Greg D. Schechter, Seattle, WA (US);
Gregory D. Swedberg, Bellevue, WA (US);
Christopher A. Fortier, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jevan Saks, Redmond, WA (US);
Ian Hanschen, Redmond, WA (US);
Leonardo E. Blanco, Redmond, WA (US);
Adrian Secchia, Bellevue, WA (US);
Andrey E. Arsov, Sammamish, WA (US);
Greg D. Schechter, Seattle, WA (US);
Gregory D. Swedberg, Bellevue, WA (US);
Christopher A. Fortier, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jevan Saks, Redmond, WA (US);
Ian Hanschen, Redmond, WA (US);
Leonardo E. Blanco, Redmond, WA (US);
Adrian Secchia, Bellevue, WA (US);
Andrey E. Arsov, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Described is a pluggable policy component that determines the look and feel, or windows visual experience, of a computer user interface. Window-related instructions are redirected to the policy component, while client area change instructions are provided to a substrate (into which the policy component plugs in) that includes a composition component. The plug-in policy component handles windows-related (e.g., structural or attribute) changes to a scene graph to construct and maintain the scene graph, while the substrate handles program content changes to the client areas within windows. The substrate may include a desktop window manager that has access to the client areas in the scene graph, whereby the desktop window manager can copy a client area for rendering. For example, the desktop window manager can provide a supplemental live thumbnail image of a window.