Appliance development toolkit for creating a themeable dynamic user interface for an appliance

76 Pages·2013·4.92 MB·English

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(12) United States Patent (10) Patent N0.: US 8,402,376 B2
Argue et a]. (45) Date of Patent: Mar. 19, 2013
(54) APPLIANCE DEVELOPMENT TOOLKIT FOR (56) References Cited
CREATINGA THEMEABLE DYNAMIC USER
INTERFACE FOR AN APPLIANCE U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS
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(75) Inventors: Paul R. Argue, Buchanan, MI (US); 6,584,439 B1 6/2003 Geilhufe et al.
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Richard A. McCoy, Stevensville, MI
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(US); Erik P. OosterWal, DoWagiac, MI 7,254,779 B1 * 8/2007 ReZvani et al. ............. .. 715/745
(US); Brian N. Radford, Saint Joseph, 7,360,608 B2 * 4/2008 Brackin et al. ................ .. 175/57
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patent is extended or adjusted under 35
FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS
U.S.C. 154(b) by 860 days.
WO 2006012390 A2 2/2006
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Authors: Dave Steinberg; Frank Budinsky; Marcelo Paternostro; Ed
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(65) Prior Publication Data
(Continued)
US 2009/0327887 A1 Dec. 31, 2009
Primary Examiner * Steven Sax
(74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm * Clifton G. Green; McGarry
Related U.S. Application Data Bair PC
(63) Continuation of application No. (57) ABSTRACT
PCT/US2009/046186, ?led on Jun. 3, 2009.
An appliance development toolkit includes access to user
(60) Provisional application No. 61/058,440, ?led on Jun. interface domain data, an editor con?gured to create one or
3, 2008. more instances of user interface control data, to create a map
for associating the instances With one or more resource iden
ti?ers, and to create a map for associating one or more theme
(51) Int. Cl.
identi?ers With the resource identi?ers. The toolkit also has a
G06F 3/00 (2006.01)
converter for creating content based on the instances of user
(52) U.S. Cl. ...................................... .. 715/747; 715/771 interface control data and the maps. The content is in a builder
(58) Field of Classi?cation Search ........ .. 7l5/762i763, ?le. An appliance, having a graphical user interface With
7l5/744i747, 7484749, 737, 8544855, 7054712, Which a user can control and observe operation of the appli
715/771*773, 835, 501.1, 9654967; 700/17, ance, can use the builder ?le at runtime to dynamically render
700/19, 83; 709/217, 203, 223 its graphical user interface based on resources in response to
See application ?le for complete search history. selection of a theme.
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