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Operating system technology designing company SurfCast is suing Microsoft over the Live Tiles feature. Live Tiles were introduced two years ago with the launch of Windows Phone 7, and came into limelight with the focus on Windows 8, Windows RT, and Windows Phone 8 in the recent times.

Thenextweb reported about the lawsuit and covered the patent details

“SurfCast filed its lawsuit with the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine on October 30, naming one of its four patents in the complaint. The technologies include patent 6,724,403 (’403): “System and method for simultaneous display of multiple information sources.”

The ’403 patent covers the method of “presenting information from variety of sources on a display device.” It details a graphical user interface that ”organizes content from a variety of information sources into grid of tiles each of which can refresh its content independently of the others.”

The ’632 patent is similar to the ’403 patent, detailing “systems and methods for providing a user interface mobile devices enable data and services available through mobile device to be represented as a set of tiles maintained a display space.”