Patent ID: 11880554
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 17:
18. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
causing a graphical user interface (GUI) of an operating system to be presented on a display, wherein the GUI comprises (i) a work region, (ii) a task bar, (iii) an overflow expansion control, and (iv) a most recently used (MRU) slot, wherein the task bar comprises at least one application indicator that is pinned to the task bar, and that is selectable to open a corresponding application into an active or suspended state on the operating system, wherein an indicator corresponding to a first unpinned application operating on the operating system displayed on the MRU slot is not positioned on the task bar and is selectable to open the first unpinned application into the active or suspended state on the operating system;
receiving an indication of a user interaction with a second unpinned application operating on the operating system; and
in response to the user interaction,
causing the indicator corresponding to the first unpinned application displayed on the MRU slot to be replaced with an indicator that (1) corresponds to the second unpinned application, that (2) is selectable, via an overflow panel corresponding to a GUI element generated on the work region, to open the second unpinned application into the active or suspended state on the operating system, and that (3) is not positioned on the task bar; and
causing the overflow panel to display a reorganized arrangement of a plurality of indicators corresponding to a plurality of unpinned applications to rearrange the indicator corresponding to the second unpinned application to a beginning of a listing of the plurality of indicators on the overflow panel.