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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2005
Ales Holecek, Bellevue, WA (US);
Charles W. Stabb, Seattle, WA (US);
Hillel N. Cooperman, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jeffrey W. Pettiross, Seattle, WA (US);
Mark R. Ligameri, Snohomish, WA (US);
Kanwal Vedbrat, Seattle, WA (US);
Donald J. Lindsay, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ales Holecek, Bellevue, WA (US);
Charles W. Stabb, Seattle, WA (US);
Hillel N. Cooperman, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jeffrey W. Pettiross, Seattle, WA (US);
Mark R. Ligameri, Snohomish, WA (US);
Kanwal VedBrat, Seattle, WA (US);
Donald J. Lindsay, Mountain View, CA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method referred to as visual window browsing allows a user to browse through windows on their desktop. Aspects of the invention include responsive to a command, moving open windows to form a visual stack with the topmost window in the stack being in focus. Responsive to a browse the windows in the visual stack can be browsed, where the topmost window moves to the bottom of the visual stack and the other windows move higher in the stack, with the second highest window becoming the topmost window and being in focus. Successive browse commands causes this behavior to repeat allowing a user to cycle through each of the open windows.