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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2013

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2007
Applicants:

Dianne K. Hackborn, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Arve Hjonnevag, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Joseph M. Onorato, Cambridge, MA (US);

Brian J. Swetland, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Dianne K. Hackborn, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Arve Hjonnevag, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Joseph M. Onorato, Cambridge, MA (US);

Brian J. Swetland, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/50 (2006.01); G06F 3/048 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes executing one or more computer applications and ranking the applications according to one or more criteria that change in response to a user's interaction with the applications. State information for certain of the one or more applications is saved and one or more applications are terminated in response to a memory condition. Subsequently, one of the terminated applications is revived using the saved state information.


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