US 9,235,428 B2
USER INTERFACE METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR APPLICATION PROGRAMS IMPLEMENTED WITH COMPONENT ARCHITECTURESGeneral
US 9,235,428 B2
USER INTERFACE METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR APPLICATION PROGRAMS IMPLEMENTED WITH COMPONENT ARCHITECTURES
Tech Center:
2100 Computer Architecture and Software
Examiner:
Ece Hur
Art Unit:
2172 Graphical User Interface and Document Processing
Agent:
Inventors:
Jeffrey A. Smith; Alan Page; S. Prassad Maruvada; Scott A. Northmore
Assignee:
Priority:
02/01/99
Filed:
08/23/06
Granted:
01/12/16
Expiration:
01/23/27
Abstract
A computer implemented system is disclosed for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for an application program. The system includes a renderer, a proxy, and a workflow manager. The renderer is defined to render the GUI. The proxy is defined to provide to the renderer each component necessary for rendering the GUI. The proxy appears to the renderer as a single monolithic application program. The workflow manager is defined to communicate one or more document viewers and their associated user interface components to the proxy for provision to the renderer. The document viewers and their associated user interface components represent components necessary for rendering the GUI.
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
G06G06F9/451G06T2200/24G06F