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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:
Aug. 23, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 31, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Lisa M. Chavez, Tucson, AZ (US);

Rhonda L. Childress, Austin, TX (US);

David B. Kumhyr, Austin, TX (US);

Michael J. Spisak, East Northport, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/542 (2013.01); G06F 11/1438 (2013.01); G06F 11/1469 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments described herein provide recovery placeholders within an application. Specifically, one approach includes providing an application operating on a client device, and generating a recovery placeholder that defines a current state of the application by analyzing a queue containing a set of messages, and identifying one or more selected events corresponding to the application from the queue. In one approach, the current state defines, at the time the recovery placeholder is generated, at least one of: a position within a window of the application, a current activity of the application, a position of the window within a display of a display device, and a placement order of the window of the application in relation to a stack of other cascaded windows. At a later point in time, the application may then be restored to the current state by accessing the recovery placeholder to replay the one or more selected events.


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