Patent ID: 6600500
Filing Date: 2003-07-29
Classification: G06F,G09G

Abstract:
A multi-window display system for displaying a plurality of windows on a display device, comprising:a detection program for detecting a focused window among said plurality of windows displayed on said display device, said focused window being one of at least two top-most windows of said plurality of windows; a database for storing information related to at least one of locations of said plurality of windows displayed on said display device, information about overlapped ones of said plurality of windows and information about currently minimized windows; a program for detecting location information of said focused window, for detecting overlapped ones of said plurality of windows, and for updating information in said database about ones of said plurality of windows that are overlapped by said focused window based on said detected location information of said focused window and said detected overlapped ones of said plurality of windows; a timer program for detecting if said database is updated within a set time period; and a minimization program for minimizing particular ones of said plurality of windows displayed on said display device, based on said detected location information of said focused window and said detected overlapped ones of said plurality of windows, when said database has not been updated within said set time period, said particular ones being only those that are at least partially overlapped by said focused window.