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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2005
Ales Holecek, Bellevue, WA (US);
Charles W. Stabb, Seattle, WA (US);
Donald J. Lindsay, Mountain View, CA (US);
Hillel N. Cooperman, Sammamish, WA (US);
Mark R. Ligameri, Snohomish, WA (US);
Ales Holecek, Bellevue, WA (US);
Charles W. Stabb, Seattle, WA (US);
Donald J. Lindsay, Mountain View, CA (US);
Hillel N. Cooperman, Sammamish, WA (US);
Mark R. Ligameri, Snohomish, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method referred to as x-ray browsing for allowing a user to browse through windows on their desktop is provided. Aspects of the invention include responsive to a command, making a first window the window in focus on the display screen and changing the relative opacities between a content portion of the first window and a content portion of the second window. By controlling the opacities a single window can be made opaque while the remaining windows can be made transparent to allow a user to successively navigate among open windows.