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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2009
Erin Elizabeth Dean, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jensen M. Harris, Bellevue, WA (US);
Aaron Michael Butcher, Duvall, WA (US);
Jesse Clay Satterfield, Seattle, WA (US);
Erin Elizabeth Dean, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jensen M. Harris, Bellevue, WA (US);
Aaron Michael Butcher, Duvall, WA (US);
Jesse Clay Satterfield, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
To increase command-access efficiency and to optimize a user's available user interface work space, an improved user interface is provided for displaying logical groupings of selectable software functionality controls that are associated with one or more selected top-level functionalities. Upon selection of a top-level functionality tab, selectable functionalities associated with the top-level functionality tab are divided into logical groupings and are presented in a customizable functionality control section below the tab. Upon selection of a different top-level functionality tab, selectable functionalities associated with the subsequently selected top-level functionality tab may either replace the first functionality control section or may be displayed in a separate functionality control section adjacent to the first functionality control section if real estate is available in the user interface.