Patent ID: 9602576
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04M

Claim:
1. A method to shift a portion of a user interface (UI) from a computing device to another computing device, the method comprising: providing to be displayed a first UI of a first application on a first device by: receiving a request to shift a first portion of the first UI to a second device, wherein receiving the request includes receiving a selection of a plurality of pixels on the first UI of the first application corresponding to the first portion; generating a second UI, the second UI including the first UI and an additional content; providing the first portion to be displayed on the second device in an image format; regenerating the simulated instance of the first application such that the size of the simulated instance is increased by a size of the first portion to enable display of the additional content of the second UI in available display space of the first UI corresponding to the first portion of the first UI when the first portion of the first UI is removed from the first device; and providing a portion of the second UI to be displayed on the first device, wherein the portion of the second UI includes the additional content and the first UI but excludes the first portion of the first UI.