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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2005
Jeremy Max Stevens, Seattle, WA (US);
Kanchan Mitra, Woodinville, WA (US);
Jeremy Max Stevens, Seattle, WA (US);
Kanchan Mitra, Woodinville, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A technique for providing one class of users of an application a view of what a typical user in another class of users of the same application is visually experiencing. A client application that is interacting with the application provides a user an option of having a PIP view of what a typical user in one of the other classes of users supported by the application is visually experiencing. When the user requests to display a PIP view that represents what a typical user in a specified one of the other classes of users of the same application is seeing, a PIP view window is automatically rendered on the user's display screen. The PIP view window represents what a typical user in the specified one of the other classes of users is seeing, but is not an 'active' interface through which the user can interact with the application.