公开(公告)号：US20060036962A1

公开(公告)日：2006-02-16

申请号：US11245029

申请日：2005-10-07

申请人： Steven Jobs ,  Donald Lindsay

发明人： Steven Jobs ,  Donald Lindsay

IPC分类号： G06F3/00

CPC分类号： G06F3/0481

摘要： A computer-human interface manages the available space of a computer display in a manner which reduces clutter and confusion caused by multiple open windows. The interface includes a user-selectable mode of operation in which only those windows associated with the currently active task are displayed on the computer monitor. All other windows relating to non-active tasks are minimized by reducing them in size or replacing them with a representative symbol, such as an icon, so that they occupy a minimal amount of space on the monitor's screen. When a user switches from the current task to a new task, by selecting a minimized window, the windows associated with the current task are automatically minimized as the window pertaining to the new task is displayed at its normal size. As a result, the user is only presented with the window that relates to the current task of interest, and clutter provided by non-active tasks is removed.