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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:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2005
Bojana Ostojic, Kirkland, WA (US);
Christopher a Glein, Seattle, WA (US);
Mark R. Gibson, Seattle, WA (US);
William H Vong, Redmond, WA (US);
Benjamin N Alton, Redmond, WA (US);
Mark S Newell, Seattle, WA (US);
Bojana Ostojic, Kirkland, WA (US);
Christopher A Glein, Seattle, WA (US);
Mark R. Gibson, Seattle, WA (US);
William H Vong, Redmond, WA (US);
Benjamin N Alton, Redmond, WA (US);
Mark S Newell, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method of overlaying layers of a user interface on a display of a computing device is presented herein. In a preferred embodiment, while a media item is displayed within the user interface, an overlay having features associated with the media item being displayed on the user interface is layered on top of the user interface such that the media item beneath the overlay layer is at least partially viewable through the overlay layer.