Patent ID: 8028247

Claim:
A method of navigating within groups of windows in a GUI environment by a user, comprising: providing a GUI environment including a plurality of windows; establishing first and second groups of windows, each comprising a subset of two or more but less than all of said plurality of windows in said GUI environment such that the windows comprising said first group are related and the windows comprising said second group are related, by, for each of said first and second groups, selecting a first window; dragging said first window to a group icon on a second window; and dropping said first window on said group icon of said second window, thereby establishing a group relationship between said first and second window; cycling focus successively between the windows in said first group in response to a focus cycle command input by the user; shifting focus to a window in said second group in response to a focus shift command input by the user; and cycling focus successively between the windows in said second group in response to said focus cycle command input by the user.