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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:
Jun. 24, 2014

Filed:

Sep. 01, 2009
Applicants:

Ben Goodger, Mountain View, CA (US);

Brian Rakowski, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Linus Upson, Redwood City, CA (US);

Glen Murphy, Mountain View, CA (US);

Peter Kasting, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ben Goodger, Mountain View, CA (US);

Brian Rakowski, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Linus Upson, Redwood City, CA (US);

Glen Murphy, Mountain View, CA (US);

Peter Kasting, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The present invention relates to tab management in a browser, such as a web browser. In a first embodiment, a method creates a new tab in a browser on a device. An opener tab that opened the new tab is determined on the device. A tab opened from the opener tab is determined on the device. Finally, the new tab is positioned, on the device, adjacent to the tab opened from the opener tab.


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