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Notification of state transition of an out-of-focus application with state and notification priority filtering

  • US 8,140,993 B2
  • Filed: 02/29/2008
  • Issued: 03/20/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/15/2006
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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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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