Dynamic multi monitor display and flexible tile display

US10990419B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

• Eli Schwartz · Kfar Sava, IL
• Michael Andrew Foynes · Issaquah, US
• Alexander Vakaluk · Haifa, IL
• Nir Levy · Nes Ziona, IL
• Irit Shalom Kantor · Even Yehuda, IL
• Eli Arbel · Migdal HaEmek, IL
• Eyal Livne · Kfar Sava, IL
• Avner Shahar-Kashtan · Nes Ziona, IL

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 4, 2019
• Grant date: Apr 27, 2021
• Expiry date: Mar 4, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F40/186
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Interfaces utilize two types of tiles, including boundary spanning type tiles and boundary non-spanning type tiles. The boundary non-spanning tile each have a boundary non-spanning parameter/property that prevent the tile from overlapping a particular type of display boundary and that is operable for triggering a modification of a layout presentation of the canvas by causing/modifying the one or more tiles in the first set of tiles to be automatically resized and/or repositioned within the canvas layout presentation when it is determined the boundary non-spanning type tile(s) would overlap the particular type of boundary in a current/prior layout. The boundary spanning type tiles omit the boundary non-spanning parameter/property or have it set to an inactive state.