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US 10,242,341 B2Granted
Automatic taskbar grouping by user tasks
AssigneeLenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorsJohn W. Nicholson, Philip J. Jakes
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Abstract
Systems, methods and products are described that provide taskbar grouping by user task. One aspect includes identifying a plurality of applications open on a computing device; identifying one or more objects open in said plurality of applications; determining one or more objective measures of said one or more objects belonging to a particular task; and automatically grouping objects sharing one or more objective measures of belonging to a particular task together in a common taskbar icon of a display.
Claims16
A method comprising:
- identifying a plurality of applications open on a computing device;
- identifying one or more files open in said plurality of applications;
- determining one or more objective measures of said one or more files belonging to a particular task, wherein said one or more objective measures comprises an indication that a switching threshold has been exceeded;
- and
- automatically grouping, without user intervention, files sharing one or more objective measures of belonging to a particular task together in a common taskbar icon of a display, wherein said one or more files are open in different applications of said plurality of applications.
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A system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- one or more display devices;
- wherein, responsive to execution of computer program instructions accessible to the one or more processors, the one or more processors:
- identify a plurality of applications open on the system;
- identify one or more files open in said plurality of applications;
- determine one or more objective measures of said one or more files belonging to a particular task, wherein said one or more objective measures comprises an indication that a switching threshold has been exceeded;
- and
- automatically group, without user intervention, files sharing one or more objective measures of belonging to a particular task together in a common taskbar icon of the one or more display devices, wherein said one or more files are open in different applications of said plurality of applications.
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A computer program product comprising:
- a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code being executable by a processor and comprising:
- computer readable program code that identifies a plurality of applications open on a computing device;
- computer readable program code that identifies one or more files open in said plurality of applications;
- computer readable program code that determines one or more objective measures of said one or more files belonging to a particular task, wherein said one or more objective measures comprises an indication that a switching threshold has been exceeded;
- and
- computer readable program code that automatically groups, without user intervention, files sharing one or more objective measures of belonging to a particular task together in a common taskbar icon of a display, wherein said one or more files are open in different applications of said plurality of applications.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.