Brendan D Rempel

US Patent:

20110035697, Feb 10, 2011

Filed:

Aug 7, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/537517

Inventors:

Brendan D. Rempel - Redmond WA, US
Xianming Wu - Redmond WA, US
Milong Sabandith - Seattle WA, US
Adam Avraham Ferman - Redmond WA, US
Sylvester M. La Blanc - Issaquah WA, US
Oren Winter - Kirkland WA, US

Assignee:

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 3/048

US Classification:

715781, 715809

Abstract:

A method of autonomously managing selective display of graphical interfaces displayable by a computing device is provided. The method includes detecting creation of an application window or dialog box attempting to be displayed by the computing device. The method includes obtaining display characteristics for a created application window or dialog box. The display characteristics include display configuration parameters and displayable contents of the created application window or dialog box. The method includes identifying the display characteristics from different display characteristics linked to corresponding display management actions. The method includes performing a display management action that corresponds to the display characteristics to selectively display the application window or dialog box or performing a display management action that is not directly associated with display of the application window or dialog box.