Patent ID: 8245151

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having processor executable instructions that when executed, cause a computing device to perform a method, the method comprising: providing a list of window types based on a plurality of different windows and current processing states of the plurality of different windows; in response to an instruction to arrange windows of a window type that are open on a display screen, where the instruction is initiated by a user selection of the window type from a popup menu that displays the list of window types that are open on the display screen: determining a window type for the windows that are open including determining a current processing state of the windows by determining whether a window is in an error state, a ready to submit state, a saved state, or a processing state; identifying the windows based on the window type; and automatically re-displaying the windows of the window type that is selected in a display arrangement based on the instruction to arrange the windows of the window type while ignoring windows that are not of the window type, wherein the re-displaying includes selectively modifying the display arrangement to display a window in an error state on top of other windows.