Metadata driven user interface

US8095565B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

• Patrick Dengler · Redmond, US
• Arvind Krishnan · Thousand Oaks, US
• Jagdish Singh · Hyderabad, IN
• Lawrence Sanchez · Redmond, US
• Sai Shankar · Irvine, US
• Satish Kumar Chittamuru · Hyderabad, IN
• Zoltan Pekic · Seattle, US
• Nabarun Mondal · Hyderabad, IN
• Namendra Kumar · Redmond, US
• Ricard Roma i Dalfo · Redmond, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 5, 2006
• Grant date: Jan 10, 2012
• Expiry date: May 5, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F9/451
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Metadata is used to create customized user interface (UI) portions for an application. The metadata may be XML-based and can be interpreted and then rendered to implement a customized UI that also supports data binding between data and the UI controls. Once created, the metadata is processed by a rendering engine to display the UI controls. An interpreter may be used to interpret the metadata file before it is sent to the rendering engine. Neither the rendering engine nor the interpreter needs knowledge of the host application and provides support for arbitrary metadata driven UI. The metadata schema may include mechanisms to create custom controls for the UI; programmatically modify the UI controls by providing access to a code-behind assembly as well as support event handling for the UI controls.