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IV. NEWLY ADDED CLAIM 4 (note new claim 4 is identical to claim 4 in “Example 23”)

4 (New). A computer‐implemented method for dynamically relocating textual information within an underlying window displayed in a graphical user interface, the method comprising:

› displaying a first window containing textual information in a first format within a graphical user interface on a computer screen;

› displaying a second window within the graphical user interface;

› constantly monitoring the boundaries of the first window and the second window to detect an overlap condition where the second window overlaps the first window such that the textual information in the first window is obscured from a user’s view;

› determining the textual information would not be completely viewable if relocated to an unobstructed portion of the first window;

› calculating a first measure of the area of the first window and a second measure of the area of the unobstructed portion of the first window;

› calculating a scaling factor which is proportional to the difference between the first measure and the second measure;

› scaling the textual information based upon the scaling factor;

› automatically relocating the scaled textual information, by a processor, to the unobscured portion of the first window in a second format during an overlap condition so that the entire scaled textual information is viewable on the computer screen by the user; and

› automatically returning the relocated scaled textual information, by the processor, to the first format within the first window when the overlap condition no longer exists.

V. WORKSHEET: Claim 4

Please analyze claim 4 using the attached Subject Matter Eligibility Worksheet (Subject Matter Eligibility Worksheet - Abstract Idea Workshop).