Systems and methods for defining web content navigation

US8065600B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

• Susan Chory · Seattle, US
• Matthew E. Gibbs · Redmond, US
• Scott D. Guthrie · Bellevue, US
• Michael Harder · Bodenheim, DE
• Robert Howard · Frisco, US
• Scott K. Imig · Redmond, US
• Nikhil Kothari · Sammamish, US
• Shanku Niyogi · Bellevue, US
• Ting-hao Yang · Beijing, CN
• Andres Sanabria · Sammamish, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 14, 2004
• Grant date: Nov 22, 2011
• Expiry date: Jul 31, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F16/954
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The described systems and methods are directed at defining web content navigation. The disclosed technique enables the development of web content for a scenario without having to create every navigational control that is needed to manage the flow through the web content in the scenario or to write non-declarative server-side logic to control navigation. This method determines a declaration in a source file for a web page. The declaration is associated with an object. The method determines the views associated with the object where each of the views includes a user-interface. A flow for navigating through the views is determined. The views are rendered in accordance with the navigational flow.