TAB MANAGEMENT IN A USER INTERFACE WINDOW

Patent №

US 8,631,340

Granted

2014-01-14

Filed 2008

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

2

nlp · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12146429

Techniques to facilitate finding a tab or tabs in a user interface window are described. Various embodiments present tabs, individual tabs being associated with an opened document such as a web page or an activity, in a user interface window and automatically group at least some of the tabs together in a visually distinctive way. In at least some embodiments, this grouping is performed in response to a user interacting with the tabs in a particular way. For instance, a user may cause a tab to be created or moved within the user interface window such that the tab is grouped with a tab group or ungrouped from a tab group. Furthermore, one or more embodiments provide for certain tab-related actions, such as selecting an active tab and changing a display of a title of a tab, which can be performed in a manner based at least in part on this grouping.

AI classification

Planning0.80
Natural language0.53
AI hardware0.40
Machine learning0.18
Speech0.04
Vision0.02
Knowledge representation0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 213840578

Assignors

SCHREINER, TONY E, EPLING, JEREMIAH S, DRISLANE, HELEN E, ENS, MICHAEL J

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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