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Patent No.:

US 9250766 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 30, 2011

Labels and tooltips for context based menus

Applicants:

Erez Kikin Gil, Redmond, WA (US);

Matthew Kotler, Sammamish, WA (US);

Vignesh Sachidanandam, Mercer Island, WA (US);

Mark Pearson, Renton, WA (US);

Ned Friend, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Erez Kikin Gil, Redmond, WA (US);

Matthew Kotler, Sammamish, WA (US);

Vignesh Sachidanandam, Mercer Island, WA (US);

Mark Pearson, Renton, WA (US);

Ned Friend, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorneys:

Jessica Meyers

Jim Ross

Micky Minhas

Primary Examiner:

Tadeese Hailu

Assistant Examiner:

Shangao Zhang

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/0489 (2013.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/04812 (2013.01); G06F 3/04886 (2013.01); G06F 3/04895 (2013.01); G06F 9/4446 (2013.01);
Abstract

Tooltips associated with a context based menu are presented for providing information about executable commands on the context based menu. Tooltips may provide information about how to interact with the context based menu including what graphical icons on the context based menu represent and what actions a user can take to execute commands from the context based menu. The tooltips may be brief labels of the commands on the context based menu and may also expand to descriptive tooltips providing more information about the commands. The tooltips may be automatically presented in response to a detected period of inactivity by a user and may additionally be presented in response to detection of a user action such as a press and hold action in association with one or more commands on the context based menu, and may be displayed in a variety of positions around the context based menu.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Gil, Erez. (2016). Labels and tooltips for context based menus (U.S. Patent No. 9250766). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9250766

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