Patent ID: 11886685
Assignee: STARDOCK CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 13:
14. A system, comprising:
one or more data processors; and
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing instructions which, when executed on the one or more data processors, cause the one or more data processors to perform operations including:
presenting a desktop on an operating system, wherein the desktop includes one or more desktop windows, the desktop being presented at a desktop layer of a window stack, wherein the desktop includes a container set of one or more containers, each container of the container set containing at least one icon;
presenting a WorkerW-class window, the WorkerW-class window having a higher z-order than the desktop layer;
receiving an engagement signal to engage a peek functionality;
moving the container set within the window stack to present the container set in an unobscured manner above the WorkerW-class window in the window stack in response to engagement of the peek functionality;
receiving an interaction with the at least one icon while the container set is presented above the WorkerW-class window in the window stack;
receiving a disengagement signal; and
reverting the container set to the desktop layer of the window stack in response to receiving the disengagement signal.