Window controlling method

• US 20010047626A1
• Filed: 01/26/2001
• Published: 12/06/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Ohkado, Akira
• Application Number:
  US09/771,325
• Publication Number:
  US 20010047626A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 49/506
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/5183 Call or contact centers with computer-telephony arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/003 Click to dial services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0045 where the text-based messaging service is an instant messaging service

Abstract

A window controlling method makes a chat window immediately available without being an obstacle, when a user wants to use it. The window is enlarged to a first size larger than the window size used in activating an application program when the volume of the contents to be displayed on the window reaches a predetermined value, and the window is reduced to a second size smaller than the first size when at least a part of the contents to be displayed on the window is erased.

Claims

1. A window controlling method for an application program of a computer window system, comprising the steps of:

enlarging said window to a first size larger than the window size used in activating the application program when the volume of the contents to be displayed on said window reaches the predetermined value; and

reducing said window to a second size smaller than the first size when at least a part of the contents to be displayed on said window is erased.

2. The window controlling method according to

claim 1

, wherein said application program is a chat program.

3. The window controlling method according to

claim 2

, wherein a window used in activating the application program and a window of the second size include a message input area and a transmission button, and a window of the other size includes a message input area, a transmission button, a history display area and a clear button.

4. The window controlling method according to

claim 1

, wherein a window of said application program is always displayed adjacent to a window of the other predetermined application program.

5. The window controlling method according to

claim 1

, wherein a window of said application program is always displayed adjacent to a window of the other predetermined application program only when the window size of said application program is the first size.

6. A window controlling method for an application program of a computer window system, comprising the steps of:

enlarging said window to a first size larger than the window size used in activating the application program according to increase of the volume of the contents to be displayed on said window; and

reducing said window to a second size smaller than the first size when at least a part of the contents to be displayed on said window is erased.

7. The window controlling method according to

claim 6

, wherein said application program is a chat program.

8. The window controlling method according to

claim 7

, wherein a window used in activating the application program and a window of the second size include a message input area and a transmission button, and a window of the other size includes a message input area, a transmission button, a history display area and a clear button.

9. The window controlling method according to

claim 6

, wherein a window of said application program is always displayed adjacent to a window of the other predetermined application program.

10. The window controlling method according to

claim 6

, wherein a window of said application program is always displayed adjacent to a window of the other predetermined application program only when the window size of said application program is the first size.