US Patent 9921711 Automatically expanding panes

A portable electronic device and a method for automatically resizing a plurality of dynamically sizable panes displaying information on a screen of a portable electronic device are provided. The method includes displaying the information in the plurality of dynamically sizable panes on the screen of the portable electronic device, interacting with one of the plurality of dynamically sizable panes, and automatically resizing all of the plurality of dynamically sizable panes according to the interaction with the one of the plurality of dynamically sizable panes.