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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsRitika Virmani, Eugene Chang, Martin J. Hall, Jane T. Kim, Warren G. Stevens, Michael J. Ens, John H. Lueders, Prashant Singh, Sarah J. Bowers, Mike Pell, Mary-Lynne Williams
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Various embodiments provide a notification bar user interface control that is designed to help users maintain focus on their browsing activities, while offering notifications in the form of suggestions. In at least some embodiments, the notification bar user interface control is non-modal and is presented at a location within the browsing field-of-view that is selected to reduce user distraction. Further, in at least some embodiments, the notification bar user interface control is presented in a manner which overlays content of the web page and thus, does not cause layout of the web page to be changed.
One or more computer readable storage media embodying computer readable instructions comprising a notification bar module that is configured to implement a notification bar user interface control designed to be used with a web browser, wherein the notification bar user interface control is non-modal and is configured to be presented in a location within a browsing field-of-view adjacent a bottom of a content rendering area.
One or more computer readable storage media embodying computer readable instructions comprising a notification bar module that is configured to implement a notification bar user interface control designed to be used with a web browser, wherein the notification bar user interface control is non-modal and is configured to be presented adjacent a bottom of a content rendering area of the web browser, wherein the notification bar user interface control includes a color bar that is configured to visually separate notifications that appear in the notification bar user interface control and content that is rendered in the content rendering area.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
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