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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2009
Gregory M. Plow, Poulsbo, WA (US);
Farrokh E. Pourmirzaie, San Jose, CA (US);
Kevin M. Mcbride, Mountain View, CA (US);
Gregory M. Plow, Poulsbo, WA (US);
Farrokh E. Pourmirzaie, San Jose, CA (US);
Kevin M. McBride, Mountain View, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments of a method, apparatus and computer readable storage medium are disclosed. An application performs a close operation of windows displaying portions of a unit of information on a display. The portions of the unit of information are content of the unit of information. The close operation removes the windows from the display, and causes positioning information to be stored in the unit of information. The positioning information comprises at least one indicator of the portions of the unit of information that were displayed in the windows at a time of the close operation. The application performs an open operation. The displayed portions of the unit of information at the time of the close operation are redisplayed by the open operation in windows on the display in accordance with the positioning information in the unit of information.