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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
May. 13, 2013
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Miron Vranjes, Seattle, WA (US);
Jesse Satterfield, Seattle, WA (US);
Matthew Worley, Redmond, WA (US);
Nils Sundelin, Seattle, WA (US);
Tsz Yan Wong, Seattle, WA (US);
Bret Anderson, Seattle, WA (US);
Robert Jarrett, Seattle, WA (US);
Chaitanya Sareen, Seattle, WA (US);
Alice Steinglass, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments described herein relate to maintaining a tiled arrangement of application windows as a user inserts application windows into a managed display region. A tiled arrangement is an arrangement where windows do not overlap each other and substantially maximize window occupation of the display region. Generally, when a user inserts an application window the tiled arrangement is maintained by resizing any previously present application windows. Where to insert a window, which displayed windows to resize and to what extent can be determined based on factors such as user input, any prior manual adjustment of the tiled arrangement, and/or minimum window sizes. Whether tile arranging is performed in a managed or curated fashion (e.g., by sharing space equally among windows) or in a semi-curated fashion may be determined by taking into account any of the aforementioned factors.