WINDOW SWITCH SYSTEM

• US 20090138819A1
• Filed: 11/26/2007
• Published: 05/28/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: A Foundry Technology Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: A Foundry Technology Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: YU, SHYANG-LIN
• Application Number:
  US11/944,764
• Publication Number:
  US 20090138819A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/802
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance

Abstract

A system for switching an opened window in a computer system between a display state and a hide state includes a mouse and a window switch system. The mouse has a switch key and a signal control unit. The window control system includes a window recording unit, a display control module, a window state switch module and a signal processing unit. When the user presses the switch key to output a switch signal from the mouse to the window control system, the window state switch module changes the state of the opened window, and then, the display control module executes the altered result and outputs the result to the screen in the computer system, thereby achieving the purpose of switching the computer window between the display and the hide states, so as to prevent the information shown on the screen from being seen by unauthorized persons.

Claims

1. A window switch system, suitable for a computer system, for switching windows in the computer system, comprising:

a mouse, having a switch key and a signal control unit, wherein the signal control unit outputs a switch signal as the switch key is pressed; and

a window control system, mounted in the computer system, comprising;

a window recording unit, for recording opened windows in the computer system and a variable representing the state of the opened window, wherein the variable is changed between a value representing the display state and a value representing the hide state;

a display control module, for executing a display operation or a hide operation of the opened window according to the corresponding variable recorded in the window recording unit;

a window state switch module, for changing the variable recorded in the window recording unit and controlling the display control module to execute the display operation or the hide operation according to the changed variable; and

a signal processing unit, for receiving the switch signal and, according thereto, causing the window state switch module to change the variable recorded in the window recording unit.

2. The window switch system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the switch signal outputted by the signal control unit is identified by the signal processing unit in the window control system.

3. The window switch system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the display control module displays the opened window on the screen of the computer system or hides the opened window in accordance with the variable recorded in the window recording unit.

4. The window switch system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the window state switch module generates a notice signal after changing the variable recorded in the window recording unit.

5. The window switch system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the display control module receives the notice signal and, according thereto, accesses the variables in the window recording unit, and executes the display operation or the hide operation to the opened window in accordance with the respective variable.

6. The window switch system as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that, the window control system further comprises:

a window state setting module, for generating a window setting interface according to the variables in the window recording unit, wherein the window setting interface comprises, windows, the state variables and a setting option including hide and display options.

7. The window switch system as claimed in claim 6, wherein the window state setting module compares the settings modifiable by the user in the window setting interface with the variables of the respective windows in the window recording unit, and changes the variables of the respective windows in the window recording unit if changed by the user.