	US 7,487,455 B2
	Techniques for simultaneously displaying a background page and an interactive content page in an application window
Christopher T. Szeto, Santa Clara, Calif. (US)
Assigned to Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif. (US)
Filed on Apr. 19, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/828,513.
Prior Publication US 2005/0235219 A1, Oct. 20, 2005
Int. Cl. G06F 3/048 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 715—752 [715/777; 715/790; 715/758; 715/792; 709/206]

26 Claims

1. A method for displaying multiple pages in an instant messenger application, the method comprising:

displaying simultaneously a first page and a second page in the instant messenger window;

wherein the first page is a friends list page that displays a set of users that send and receive a plurality of instant messages within an instant messaging community and the second page is a interactive content page with a set of tabs for retrieving content from the internet;

allowing a user in the set of users to change the size of the interactive content page, wherein the interactive content page has a minimum height and a maximum height;

preventing a user in the set of users from hiding all of the friends list page from view in the instant messenger window by maintaining a pre-programmed minimum height for the friends list page within the instant messenger window; and

sending a message from a first instant messenger user to a second instant messenger user in the friends list in response to the first instant messenger user selecting content in the interactive content page, wherein the message relates to the selected content.