Patent ID: 8533625

Claim:
A computer-implemented method, comprising: providing, by a computing device, a graphical user interface of an application configured to display a graphical object; displaying the graphical object at a first position in a portion of the graphical user interface; in response to a first command, displaying a control element of the application in the graphical user interface, the control element displayed so as to at least partially occlude the displayed graphical object; after displaying the control element, determining if the control element is to remain displayed in the graphical user interface; in response to determining that the control element is to remain displayed in the graphical user interface: displaying the graphical object at a second position in the portion of the graphical user interface so that the control element does not occlude the graphical object; and in response to determining that the control element is not to remain in the graphical user interface: removing the control element from the graphical user interface.