US 2014/0229891 A1 · Methods and Systems for Managing a Graphical User Interface

Methods and Systems for Managing a Graphical User Interface

AssigneeCitibank, N.A.

InventorsDavid Niall O'Byrne, Alaa Abdulkhaleq Saeed, Ashvin Parkash, Wyatt Alexander Flores, Vanderlei Cardoso da Silva, Ori Anavim, Kumaravel Kannan Nagarajan, Andrew Robert Blackman, Naveenprasad Subbiyan, Krishnaraj Rajagopalan, Laura Krystyna Lingard Turner

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Abstract

Methods and systems for managing a graphical user interface involve, for example, defining, using a processor coupled to memory, a threshold distance between windows on a display screen at which a mutual attraction between the windows is activated to draw the windows together as components of a picture of windows. Also using the processor, all windows of a same functional type that are components of the picture of windows are resized simultaneously without affecting the size of windows of other functional types that are also components of the picture of windows. Likewise using the processor, all windows on the display screen are maintained in an active state regardless of a focus of a user input device.

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Dependent claims

A method for managing a graphical user interface, comprising:

defining, using a processor coupled to memory, a threshold distance between windows on a display screen at which a mutual attraction between the windows is activated to draw the windows together as components of a picture of windows;
resizing, using the processor, all windows of a same functional type that are components of the picture of windows simultaneously without affecting a size of windows of other functional types that are also components of the picture of windows;
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maintaining, using the processor, all windows on the display screen in an active state regardless of a focus of a user input device.

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