Patent ID: 7673255
Filing Date: 2010-03-02
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of displaying a window containing a thumbnail on a display device, the method comprising: displaying a taskbar with a taskbar button corresponding to the thumbnail where each taskbar button corresponds to an active application; displaying a source window, the source window comprising first content that is capable of being modified; displaying a destination window wherein at least a portion of the destination window includes the thumbnail, the thumbnail including second content corresponding to at least a portion of the first content of the source window; registering the thumbnail to establish a relationship between the source window and the destination window through an application programming interface host to point back to and redraw the second content corresponding to at least a portion of the first content of the source window; dynamically modifying the second content of the thumbnail through the application programming interface host between the first content of the source window and the second content of the thumbnail that determines whether the first content has changed since a previous comparison of the first content of the source window with the second content of the thumbnail and whenever the first content of the source window changes, the second content is modified by redrawing the second content based on how the first content of the source window changes; and allowing a user-initiated view of the redrawn second content when a user positions a pointing device over a minimized instance of the destination window.