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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2008
Applicants:
Anton Andrews, Seattle, WA (US);
Jeffrey Fong, Seattle, WA (US);
Marc S. Doll, Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A panoramic graphical user interface includes a contiguous background and a collection of mixed-media content objects. The contiguous background includes one or more space-orientating graphical elements and is sized to fit within a first dimension of a display and to extend beyond a second dimension of the display. The collection of mixed-media content objects are anchored over the contiguous background. The collection of mixed-media content objects are arranged to fit within the first dimension of the display and arranged to extend beyond the second dimension of the display.