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USO095521.31B2 (12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 9,552,131 B2 Chaudhri et al. (45) Date of Patent: Jan. 24, 2017 (54) METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR (56) References Cited DISPLAYING AWINDOW FOR AUSER INTERFACE U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS 4,555,775 A 11, 1985 Pike (71) Applicant: APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US) 4,890,098 A 12/1989 Dawes et al. (Continued) (72) Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, San Francisco, CA (US); Bas Ording, San Francisco, CA FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS (US) EP 697691 A2 2, 1996 EP 961200 A2 12/1999 (73) Assignee: APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US) (Continued) (*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this OTHER PUBLICATIONS patent is extended or adjusted under 35 Apple Inc vs. Samsung Electronic, (Oct. 7, 2011). "Samsung's Patent U.S.C. 154(b) by 481 days. Local Rule 3-3 and 3-4 Disclosures'. Case No. 11-cv-01846-LHK, 62 pages. (21) Appl. No.: 14/061,660 (Continued) Primary Examiner — Tadeese Hailu (22) Filed: Oct. 23, 2013 (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm — Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP (65) Prior Publication Data (57) ABSTRACT US 2014/O157162 A1 Jun. 5, 2014 Methods and apparatuses to display windows. In more than one embodiments of the invention, a window is closed automatically (e.g., after a timer expires, or when a condi Related U.S. Application Data tion or criterion is met, or a system input is received) without (63) Continuation of application No. 1 1/635,847, filed on user input. In some examples, the window is translucent So Dec. 8, 2006, now Pat. No. 8,601,384, which is a that the portion of another window, when present, is visible under the window. In some examples, the image of the (Continued) window is faded out before the window is closed and destroyed. In some examples, the window does not close in (51) Int. C. response to any input from a user input device. In some G06F 3/048 (2013.01) examples, the window is repositioned (or hidden) automati cally when another translucent window is displayed. The G06F 3/048 (2013.01) degree of translucency, the speed for fading out, the discrete GO6F 3/16 (2006.01) levels of translucency for fading out, the time to expire, (52) U.S. C. and/or other parameters for controlling the display of the CPC ............. G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/165 window may be set by the user or adjusted by the system (or (2013.01); G06F 2203/04804 (2013.01) application software programs) automatically according to (58) Field of Classification Search system conditions or other criteria. CPC ....... G06F 3/165; G06F 3/0481; G06F 1/3215 See application file for complete search history. 34 Claims, 21 Drawing Sheets 3. Fawrits 3isio2 26 M. 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