Topic
Focus stealing
About: Focus stealing is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4 publications have been published within this topic receiving 157 citations.
Papers
Patent•
IBM1
TL;DR: In this article, a windows security module monitors the windows displayed by the computer to detect when a window becomes inactive in the display, for example by the user clicking and working within another window in display.
Abstract: Screensaver functionality is provided at the individual window level. A windows security module monitors the windows displayed by the computer to detect when a window becomes inactive in the display, for example by the user clicking and working within another window in the display. Upon becoming inactive, the windows security module overrides the application data being sent to a secured window and displays a predetermined screensaver-type image in its place, thereby hiding sensitive information from being displayed by the window during periods of inactivity. The windows security module can implement any user selected security type to hide or obscure the windows content such as blanking the individual window, displaying a text message or other graphic in the window, or minimizing the individual window upon becoming inactive. A time delay can also be set to delay the assertion of the security feature until a specified time following the window becoming inactive.
77 citations
Patent•
23 Dec 2004
TL;DR: In this article, a user's activity within a first window that is visible to the user in a graphical user interface (GUI), receiving notification of an incoming message intended for the user, and, upon receipt, opening a second window, the second window being distinct from any other window currently open in the GUI.
Abstract: One implementation provides monitoring a user's activity within a first window that is visible to the user in a graphical user interface (GUI), receiving notification of an incoming message intended for the user, and, upon receipt, opening a second window that is visible to the user in the GUI, the second window being distinct from any other window currently open in the GUI When a predetermined condition is satisfied based upon the user's activity being monitored in the first window, the implementation further provides deactivating the first window in the GUI and activating the second window to provide the user with notification of the incoming message
55 citations
6 Nov 1995
TL;DR: In this paper, the "fuzzy control" issue is defined to conquer the issue of recovering the windows which have fallen into a "disadvantageous" status by window (it is active) manipulation to the most "advantageously" status.
Abstract: Today, it is popular that operating systems load the "window system" as a user interface on small computers such as personal computers, workstations, and so on. In these window systems, the "overlapping multi-window" method is used as a display control method. Although there is much merit in it, some demerits should not be ignored. One of the most undesirable situations is that some other non-active windows may be hidden completely under the active window and become quite invisible when active window is enlarged or opened. In this paper, the "fuzzy control" issue is defined to conquer this situation. That is to say, the issue of recovering the windows which have fallen into a "disadvantageous" status by window (it is active) manipulation to the most "advantageous" status. And a new method of automatic window rearrangement using fuzzy inference is proposed. Finally, the effect of the proposed method is verified in several experiments.
4 citations
TL;DR: A technique for reducing screen clutter when using any windowing system such as Microsoft Windows, X-Windows or the Apple Macintosh windowing systems is outlined, known as Vanishing or Fading Windows.
Performance Metrics
| Year | Papers |
|---|---|
| 2004 | 2 |
| 2000 | 1 |
| 1995 | 1 |