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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:
Jul. 12, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2006
Applicants:
Krista L. Johnson, Newcastle, WA (US);
Garrett R. Vargas, Sammamish, WA (US);
Robert Ian Oliver, Issaquah, WA (US);
Bradley L. Carpenter, Carnation, WA (US);
Daniel Makoski, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Krista L. Johnson, Newcastle, WA (US);
Garrett R. Vargas, Sammamish, WA (US);
Robert Ian Oliver, Issaquah, WA (US);
Bradley L. Carpenter, Carnation, WA (US);
Daniel Makoski, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and user interface permits the display of objects in a portion of a display. The objects may initial be a first size, then shrink to a smaller size after a period of time. The objects may stack on top of each other. In addition, the objects may disappear all together after a further amount of time.