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US 9,870,188 B2Granted
Content visibility management
AssigneeLenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorsRussell Speight VanBlon, John Carl Mese, Arnold S. Weksler, Nathan J. Peterson
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Abstract
One embodiment provides a method, including: outputting, to a display device, first content; receiving, using a processor, an instruction to output second content to the display device; positioning one or more of the first content and the second content within the display device according to positioning data based on the first content; and displaying both of the first content and the second content on the display device. Other embodiments are described and claimed herein.
Claims18
A method, comprising:
- outputting, to a display device, first content in a first location on the display device;
- receiving, using a processor, an instruction to output second content to the display device, wherein the second content is not co-displayed with the first content prior to the instruction;
- said second content having a predetermined location for display set by an operating system;
- determining, using a processor, that the predetermined location for display of the second content on the display is occupied at least partially by the first content;
- detecting, using a processor, that the first content and the second content have a relation to one another;
- in response to the detecting, altering, using a processor, one or more of the predetermined location for display of the second content and the first location on the display of the first content;
- and
- displaying both of the first content and the second content on the display device in a non-overlapping display.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a display device;
- an input device;
- a processor;
- and
- a memory that stores instructions executable by the processor to:
- output, to the display device, first content in a first location on the display device;
- receive an instruction to output second content to the display device, wherein the second content is not co-displayed with the first content prior to the instruction;
- said second content having a predetermined location for display set by an operating system;
- determine that the predetermined location for display of the second content on the display is occupied at least partially by the first content;
- detect, using a processor, that the first content and the second content have a relation to one another;
- in response to detecting that the first content and the second content have a relation to one another, alter one or more of the predetermined location for display of the second content and the first location on the display of the first content;
- and
- display both of the first content and the second content on the display device in a non-overlapping display.
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A product, comprising:
- a computer readable storage device having code embodied therewith, the code being executable by a processor and comprising:
- code that outputs, to a display device, first content in a first location on the display device;
- code that receives, using a processor, an instruction to output second content to the display device, wherein the second content is not co-displayed with the first content prior to the instruction;
- said second content having a predetermined location for display set by an operating system;
- code that determines, using a processor, that the predetermined location for display of the second content on the display is occupied at least partially by the first content;
- code that detects, using a processor, that the first content and the second content have a relation to one another;
- code that alters, in response to output of the code that detects, using a processor, one or more of the predetermined location for display of the second content and the first location on the display of the first content;
- and
- code that displays both of the first content and the second content on the display device in a non-overlapping display.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.