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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsLatika Kirtane, Chaitanya D. Sareen, Bret P. Anderson
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An application status system is described herein that informs the user about application-specific status updates and notifications through a changing status icon associated with an application-switching user interface displayed by an operating system when the application is running. When an application has focus, there is typically no way for another application to display status to the user without displaying a dialog box or a notification balloon that interrupts the user. The application status system takes advantage of the existing application-switching user interface to display a lightweight status icon overlay on the application-switching user interface itself. Thus, the application status system allows applications to provide application-specific status updates without interrupting a user's activity in another application and without adding additional UI for a user to process.
A computer-implemented method for receiving a status icon from an application, the method comprising:
A computer system for displaying application status in an application-switching user interface, the system comprising:
A computer-readable storage medium encoded with instructions for controlling a computer system to display a taskbar that includes application status information, by a method comprising:
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