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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2005
David Switzer, Seattle, WA (US);
Huat Chye Lim, Seattle, WA (US);
Lisa A. Osse, Kirkland, WA (US);
William Mak, Seattle, WA (US);
Hyunsuk Kim, Sammamish, WA (US);
David Switzer, Seattle, WA (US);
Huat Chye Lim, Seattle, WA (US);
Lisa A. Osse, Kirkland, WA (US);
William Mak, Seattle, WA (US);
HyunSuk Kim, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A user interface and scheme is provided for facilitating shutting down an operating system. Aspects include the operating system receiving a command to initiate shut down, and automatically terminating graphical user interface (GUI) applications that delay shut down which do not have top level windows. Also, aspects provide a user, through a graphical user interface, the ability to automatically terminate all running applications in response to determining that a running GUI application has a top level window.
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