Content-based user interface, apparatus and method

US9294377B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Jesse Ward-Karet · San Francisco, US
• Peter Benjamin Loer · Oakland, US
• Christopher Jacob Loer · San Diego, US
• Jeremy Scott Spiegel · San Francisco, US
• Aaron Olaf Louick Bauer · Albany, US
• Brian Patrick Green · Oakland, US
• John Edward Firebaugh · Emeryville, US
• Michael Latham Ottum · San Francisco, US
• Anna Esther Min · Emeryville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 14, 2010
• Grant date: Mar 22, 2016
• Expiry date: Jun 8, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L45/64
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A Policy- and Relevance-based User Interface (UI) for an enterprise suite Console provides a Console Operator access to information about systems on a network under management. By means of such UI, a user experience is dynamically constructed within product domains particular to the system under management using content elements that flow from content sites into the user environment, populating user interface and driving the Operator experience. Specifications distributed with the content determine how the local Console UI organizes and presents information. The UI is further determined by each Console operator's content access rights. The UI allows for re-flowing the Console UI without reinstalling or updating the Console application, seamlessly integrating new content in to the UI and targeting language to specific working areas.