Patent ID: 8191003

Claim:
A method for managing transparent windows, the method comprising the steps of: a computer receiving an input to display a first window that is open on a graphical user interface as a transparent window, and in response, the computer displaying, through the first window, content on a layer of the graphical user interface that is beneath the first window; the computer receiving an input to drag or copy content in the first window; and the computer predicting that the content in the first window will be dropped or pasted into a second window that is open on the graphical user interface, and in response, the computer activating the second window before the content in the first window is dropped or pasted into the second window; wherein the step of the computer predicting that the content of the first window will be dropped or pasted into the second window comprises the step of the computer identifying a historical pattern of one or more of dropping content dragged from the first window into the second window and pasting content copied from the first window into the second window.