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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:
Feb. 11, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2010
Jeff Arnold, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jeffrey Cheng-yao Fong, Seattle, WA (US);
Pritesh Bodalia, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jeffrey L. Bogdan, Redmond, WA (US);
Lee Dicks Clark, Seattle, WA (US);
Jeff Arnold, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jeffrey Cheng-Yao Fong, Seattle, WA (US);
Pritesh Bodalia, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jeffrey L. Bogdan, Redmond, WA (US);
Lee Dicks Clark, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A user interface is described that temporarily displays portions of a page that reside outside of the viewable area of the screen. An animated transition creates a brief preview of at least one user interface feature. Additionally, the user interface feature is then animated out of the viewable area in a way to suggest a location of the feature. In one embodiment, a target page that is being opened controls the transition and animates features into and out of the viewable area to create the temporary preview. In another embodiment, the target page includes user interface elements that can asynchronously control the preview animation independent from the main content of the target page. In yet another embodiment, a transition coordinator can coordinate the timing between animating out a foreground application while animating in a target application.