Multitasking and Full Screen Menu Contexts

Patent №

US 9,720,567

Granted

2017-08-01

Filed 2014

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

1

hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14181896

Multitasking and full screen menu contexts are described. In one or more implementations, an input is received to cause output of a menu in a user interface of a computing device. Responsive to this receipt, a determination is made as which of a plurality of portions displayed simultaneously in the user interface in a multitasking mode has focus, each of the plurality of portions corresponding to an output of a respective one of a plurality of applications. Responsive to the determination, output is caused of the menu as associated with the focused portion of the user interface and having a representation of at least one function based the focused portion, the representation selectable to cause performance of the function.

AI hardwareG06F 3/0482G06F 3/04842G06F 3/04847H04N 21/4316H04N 21/47G06F 3/0481G06F 9/453H04N 5/445

AI classification

AI hardware1.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Planning0.00
Natural language0.00
Speech0.00
Machine learning0.00
Vision0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 322280657

Assignors

CHURCHILL, JOHN E., WHEELER, JOSEPH, VASSEUR, JEROME JEAN-LOUIS, FULLER, THOMAS, GILES, JASON DEAN

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

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