Patent · US Expired

Method for providing a graphical user interface

US7814423B2 · kind B2 · utility

6Cited by

15References

40Claims

0Family size

Assignee

BEA Systems, Inc. · US

Inventors

Scott Musson · Arvada, US
Christopher Jolley · Broomfield, US
George Murnock · Firestone, US
Subrahmanyam Allamaraju · Longmont, US
Brodi Beartusk · Lafayette, US
Robert Bergman · Columbus, US
James D'Ambrosia · Westminster, US
Kevin Blair Frender · Longmont, US
Stephen Hetzel · Boulder, US
Purushotham Babu Naidu · Lafayette, US
Sameer Sawant · Boulder, US

Key dates

Filing date	Feb 27, 2004
Grant date	Oct 12, 2010
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 27, 2026

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F9/451
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for rendering a portal graphical user interface (GUI), comprising providing for the representation of a GUI desktop, a GUI look and feel, and a GUI book as a set of controls wherein the controls can be organized in a logical hierarchy, traversing the representation, wherein the traversing comprises associating a theme with a first control in the set of controls, rendering the first control according to the theme, rendering any descendents of the first control according to the theme, wherein any descendents of the first control can override the theme, and wherein one of the set of controls can communicate with another of the set of controls.

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