Patent 8136040 was granted and assigned to Apple (company) on March, 2012 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Systems and methods for varying the audio of multiple windows on a personal computer are provided. The windows may overlap in various configurations. These configurations may cause the audio associated with media playing in each media window that is overlapped to be varied in a number of different ways. The audios may be scaled in response to a set of user preferences.