Patent ID: 8405667
Filing Date: 2013-03-26
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory program storage device, readable by a computer system and comprising instructions stored thereon to cause the computer system to: store first user-interface information in a first memory buffer, the first user-interface information received from an application executing on a computer processor; receive notice of a first update from the application, the first update corresponding to an update portion of the first user-interface information; copy the first user-interface information, except for the update portion, from the first memory buffer into a second memory buffer to create second user-interface information, the second memory buffer having an empty update portion corresponding to the update portion that was not copied from the first memory buffer; perform an implicit animation in response to the first update notice to create a first implicit animation result; populate, with the first implicit animation result, the empty update portion in the second memory buffer; and mark the first memory buffer.