Patent ID: 8555193
Filing Date: 2013-10-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of transforming an appearance of a display of a computer that includes at least one or a plurality of windows displayed in a scrollable viewport, the method of transforming based upon a user commanding the computer to add a new window or to remove an existing window and comprising the steps of: providing a layout manager that is executed by a processor of the computer and contains a plurality of instructions to cause the computer to automatically arrange placement of the one or a plurality of windows within a representation of an extensible display area of the scrollable viewport stored in a memory wherein a subset of the representation corresponds to a viewable area corresponding to a visually perceptible viewable area of the display associated with the computer, and an extension area corresponds to a non-viewable area of the representation, wherein the layout manager: in response to the user commanding the computer to add the new window, the layout manager automatically in response to the user commanding the computer to remove the existing window, the layout manager automatically