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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2006
Swain W. Porter, Kirkland, WA (US);
Swain W. Porter, Kirkland, WA (US);
Other;
Abstract
In a computer system having a display surface; a portion of the display surface is reserved to allow contents rendered by a program to be persistently visible. In one embodiment, a shared portion of the display surface managed by a window manager may be reduced. In another embodiment, the window manager may work with a pixel resolution smaller than the operative pixel resolution of a display device driver. In one embodiment, HTML advertisements may be rendered in the reserved portion by an advertising rendering program, such as through a direct draw component. The direct draw component may be provided with an unreduced surface area to support direct drawing of displays. A cursor control device driver may likewise be provided with an unreduced surface area to monitor for cursor movements and events. In other embodiments, multiple portions of the display surface may be reserved and/or full screen applications may be accommodated.