US Patent:
20130332865, Dec 12, 2013
Inventors:
Stephen Michael Danton - Seattle WA, US
Jonah B. Sterling - Seattle WA, US
Michael Bach - Seattle WA, US
Jefferson King - Bellevue WA, US
Jesse David Francisco - Lake Stevens WA, US
Adam Mohamed Abdelhamed - Bellevue WA, US
Mark S. D'Urso - Redmond WA, US
Jonathan Harris - Sammamish WA, US
Karandeep Singh Anand - Redmond WA, US
Bharat Ahluwalia - Redmond WA, US
S. Morris Brown - Seattle WA, US
William J. Staples - Duvall WA, US
Dina-Marie Ledonne Supino - Seattle WA, US
Assignee:
MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA
International Classification:
G06F 3/048
Abstract:
A user interface that includes an activity initiation area that includes an activity initiation control that may be interacted with in order to initiate respective activities, and a notification area in which one or more notifications related to the activity may be displayed. The notification area is spatially related to the activity initiation control in a fixed manner for multiple activities. The activity initiation area may appear along a lower boundary of the display much as a partially pulled out drawer as viewed from above. The notification area may also appear along the lower boundary of the display, but extend further vertically, much as a fully pulled out drawer as viewed from above. This helps give a contextual understanding of the subject matter of the notifications in relation to the activities that have been, or may be, initiated from the activity initiation area.