Providing a user interface

US9141402B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• AOl · US

Inventors

• Joseph Hewitt · Santa Cruz, US
• Sreekant Kotay · Richboro, US
• Corey Lucier · Berryville, US
• David Besbris · Reston, US
• Todd Brannam · Burke, US
• Veronica Marie Early · Reston, US
• Peter David Hirschberg · Big Stone Gap, US
• Ke Ning · Dunn Loring, US
• John D. Robinson · South Riding, US
• Michael Gary Wright · Ashburn, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 25, 2006
• Grant date: Sep 22, 2015
• Expiry date: Sep 14, 2029

Classification

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

Abstract

A system for providing a user interface includes a gadget definition, a style definition, and a scene file. The gadget definition includes one or more XML-based gadget definition tags defining a gadget element and the style definition includes one or more XML-based style definition tags defining one or more style attributes to be applied to the gadget element. The scene file is an XML-based document that includes a gadget element tag that specifies the gadget element. The system further includes a parser to parse the scene file, the style definition, and the gadget definition, and to generate an object that includes a gadget object corresponding to the gadget element. The system also includes a layout engine to determine, based on the object model, a layout of the user interface, and a rendering engine to render, based on the determined layout, the user interface including the gadget element.