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Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2011

Filed:

Jun. 24, 2005
Applicants:

Hideya Kawahara, Mountain View, CA (US);

Paul V. Byrne, Los Altos, CA (US);

Frank E. Ludolph, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Hideya Kawahara, Mountain View, CA (US);

Paul V. Byrne, Los Altos, CA (US);

Frank E. Ludolph, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Assignee:

Oracle America, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 3/048 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Application boundary decomposition and dynamic grouping of application components may provide a user with a task-oriented, user-configurable, dynamic user interface. An operating system may include various individual application components and a user may be able to organize the application components to create custom task groupings for performing specific tasks. The components of a single task grouping may be displayed within a single task frame or border. Alternatively, the components may be displayed upon on the user's desktop without such a border along with other desktop icons. Application components may be dynamically rearranged, either by the user or automatically in response to user context changes or according to a priority relationship among the application components. Additionally, multiple application components may access a single shared copy of data and task groupings may be shared among different users using different computer systems.


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