AUTOMATED ON-SCREEN WINDOWS ARRANGEMENTS

Organization Name

microsoft technology licensing, llc

Inventor(s)

Eric Alexander Papamarcos of Redmond WA (US)

Anna Marion Pfoertsch of Seattle WA (US)

Robert Joseph Disano of Seattle WA (US)

Bret Paul Anderson of Seattle WA (US)

Alex Snitkovskiy of Kirkland WA (US)

Yash Misra of Kirkland WA (US)

AUTOMATED ON-SCREEN WINDOWS ARRANGEMENTS

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20240411418 titled 'AUTOMATED ON-SCREEN WINDOWS ARRANGEMENTS

Original Abstract Submitted

a system for generating windows arrangements for a display is disclosed, which includes a processor and a computer-readable medium storing instructions for controlling the system to perform receiving a first user input requesting to generate windows arrangements for a display; in response to receiving the first user input, identifying, based on contextual information with respect to applications, a group of the applications to be included in the windows arrangements for the display; generating, based on display information of the display and the contextual information with respect to the applications, the windows arrangements, each windows arrangement providing a different on-screen arrangement of a plurality of windows associated with two or more applications of the group and defining a size and position of each of the windows on the display; and displaying a selectable list of the windows arrangements for the display.