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User interface with hierarchical window display

US8856675B1 · kind B1 · utility

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7References

25Claims

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Assignee

Google LLC · US

Inventors

Anand Agarawala · New York, US
Adam Cohen · Mountain View, US
Alex Nicolaou · Waterloo, US
Ben Eidelson · Palo Alto, US
Winson Wing Sin Chung · Palo Alto, US
Michael Jurka · Los Altos, US
Patrick Dubroy · Munich, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 16, 2011
Grant date	Oct 7, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 16, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F3/0488
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Methods and apparatus for displaying display windows in a graphical user interface are disclosed. An example method includes opening, on a computing device, a first root browser window and spawning, from a first link in the first root browser window in response to a user toss-gesture associated with the first link, a first subordinate browser window. The example method further includes displaying, in a hierarchical display feature of the computing device, a hierarchical relationship between the first root browser window and the first subordinate browser window so as to visually indicate hierarchical subordinacy of the first subordinate browser window to the first root browser window.

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