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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2007
Jonathan Strauss, Beverly Hills, CA (US);
Marco Boerries, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Arlo Rose, Mountain View, CA (US);
Edward Voas, Mountain View, CA (US);
Joseph Scott Derringer, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jonathan Strauss, Beverly Hills, CA (US);
Marco Boerries, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Arlo Rose, Mountain View, CA (US);
Edward Voas, Mountain View, CA (US);
Joseph Scott Derringer, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems and computer readable media defining computer instructions for rendering a user interface (UI) are provided. The UI is defined for handling a widget that provides functionality to a displayable and executable mini-application. The widget includes a plurality of widget attributes, including a dock tile that is defined to display only selected ones of the plurality of widget attributes of the widget. Also provided is a widget dock to display and contain the dock tile on a display screen, and the dock tile is linked by a functional association to the widget. The widget dock provides access to launch the widget when selection of the dock tile is detected, so as to provide full interface with the plurality of widget attributes of the widget.