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Layer For Accessing User Interface Elements

  • US 20090158193A1
  • Filed: 12/23/2008
  • Published: 06/18/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In a computer system including a display screen comprising an area displaying a user interface, a method for presenting a user-activatable dashboard layer, comprising:

  • responsive to a trigger event, activating a user-activatable dashboard layer in the area displaying the user interface such that the dashboard layer becomes visible to the user, thereby providing access to a group of widgets contained by the layer, wherein at least one of the widgets in the group of widgets was not visible on the display screen prior to activation of the layer; and

    wherein at least one widget in the group of widgets is a separate process executing regardless of whether the dashboard layer is visible to the user.

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