Notification of state transition of an out-of-focus application with state and notification priority filtering
First Claim
1. A method, comprising:
- starting one or more applications, each application of said one or more applications having multiple possible states;
displaying a taskbar on a computer screen, said taskbar having an application state filter select button;
creating a corresponding task button representing each application of said one or more applications;
upon selection of said application state filter select button, displaying a list of state filters on said computer screen; and
upon selection of a state filter from said list of state filters, displaying task buttons corresponding only to those applications presently in a state corresponding to said selected state filter.
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Abstract
A method, a computer program product, a computer system and a method for supporting an application. The method includes: starting one or more applications, each application of the one or more applications having multiple possible states; displaying a taskbar on a computer screen, the taskbar having an application state filter select button; creating a corresponding task button representing each application of the one or more applications; upon selection of the application state filter select button, displaying a list of state filters on the computer screen; and upon selection of a state filter from the list of state filters, displaying task buttons corresponding only to those applications presently in a state corresponding to the selected state filter.
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33 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
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starting one or more applications, each application of said one or more applications having multiple possible states; displaying a taskbar on a computer screen, said taskbar having an application state filter select button; creating a corresponding task button representing each application of said one or more applications; upon selection of said application state filter select button, displaying a list of state filters on said computer screen; and upon selection of a state filter from said list of state filters, displaying task buttons corresponding only to those applications presently in a state corresponding to said selected state filter. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A computer program product, comprising a computer useable medium having a computer readable program therein, wherein the computer readable program when executed on a computer causes the computer to:
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load one or more applications into a computer memory, each application of said one or more applications having multiple possible states; display a taskbar on a computer screen, said taskbar having an application state filter select button; create a task button representing each application of said one or more applications; upon selection of said application state filter select button, display a list of state filters on said computer screen; and upon selection of a state filter from said list of state filters, display task buttons corresponding only to those applications presently in a state corresponding to said selected state filter. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A computer system comprising a processor, an address/data bus coupled to said processor, and a computer-readable memory unit coupled to communicate with said processor, said memory unit containing instructions that when executed implement a method for dynamically notifying a user of a change in state of an application running on said computer system, said method comprising the computer implemented steps of:
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loading one or more applications into said memory unit, each application of said one or more applications having multiple possible states; displaying a taskbar on a computer screen, said taskbar having an application state filter select button; creating a corresponding task button representing each application of said one or more applications; upon selection of said application state filter select button, displaying a list of state filters on said computer screen; and upon selection of a state filter from said list of state filters, displaying task buttons corresponding only to those applications presently in a state corresponding to said selected state filter. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A process for supporting computer infrastructure, said process comprising providing at least one support service for at least one of creating, integrating, hosting, maintaining, and deploying computer-readable code in a computing system, wherein the code in combination with the computing system is capable of performing a method for user filtering taskbar display of application task buttons, said method comprising:
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loading one or more applications into a computer memory, each application of said one or more applications having multiple possible states; displaying a taskbar on a computer screen, said taskbar having an application state filter select button; creating a corresponding task button representing each application of said one or more applications; upon selection of said application state filter select button, displaying a list of state filters on said computer screen; and upon selection of a state filter from said list of state filters, displaying task buttons corresponding only to those applications presently in a state corresponding to said selected state filter. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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