Patents by Inventor Keith Bottner

Keith Bottner has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9529487
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing fast switching to web applications are disclosed. In one method embodiment, a browser application may be determined to be operating on a computing device, the browser application including one or more tabs wherein one of the tabs is associated with a web application. The method may further include the actions of determining that the computing device includes a fast-switch list including one or more applications operating on the computing device, and adding the web application to the fast-switch list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Keith Bottner, Michael Jan Lawther
  • Patent number: 5808610
    Abstract: A computer program displaying a plurality of panels on the display of a computer system. Each panel contains one or more sets of tools, commands, and information displays that can be used to modify the contents of a window or document within the computer system. The panels can be docked by dragging a first panel and dropping it in proximity with a second panel while holding down a modifier key. When the panels are docked, a docking wedge is created between the panels. Docked panels can be moved as if the panels were a single panel. In addition, docked panels can be reduced in size by pressing a minimize button on any one of the docked panels. Panels can be undocked by either pressing the docking wedge or dragging a panel while holding down a modifier key. In response to either method of undocking, the docking wedge is removed and the panels become separate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Macromedia, Inc.
    Inventors: Doug Benson, Keith Bottner, Michael Froman, Scott Thompson