System and method to create an application and to manipulate application components within the application
First Claim
1. A method to facilitate visual representation of an application to provide data to a user, said method comprising:
- presenting a user interface area to display an application layout of said application, said application layout comprising a plurality of application icons and at least one connection that connects said plurality of application icons, each application icon corresponding to an application component of said application.
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Abstract
A system and method to create an application and to manipulate application components within the application are described. A user interface area is presented to display an application layout of the application, the application layout including multiple application icons and one or more connections that connect the application icons, each application icon corresponding to an application component of the application. According to one embodiment, insertion of each application icon in the application layout is facilitated and, responsive to the insertion, dynamic linking of the application icons using the one or more connections is facilitated. According to another embodiment, visual modification of the application layout is subsequently facilitated.
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73 Claims
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1. A method to facilitate visual representation of an application to provide data to a user, said method comprising:
presenting a user interface area to display an application layout of said application, said application layout comprising a plurality of application icons and at least one connection that connects said plurality of application icons, each application icon corresponding to an application component of said application. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A system to facilitate visual representation of an application to provide data to a user, said system comprising:
means for presenting a user interface area to display an application layout of said application, said application layout comprising a plurality of application icons and at least one connection that connects said plurality of application icons, each application icon corresponding to an application component of said application. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73)
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39. A computer readable medium containing executable instructions, which, when executed in a processing system, cause said processing system to perform a method comprising:
presenting a user interface area to display an application layout of said application, said application layout comprising a plurality of application icons and at least one connection among said plurality of application icons, each application icon corresponding to an application component of said application.
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58. A system to facilitate visual representation of an application to provide data to a user, said system comprising:
an application editor to present a user interface area to display an application layout of said application, said application layout comprising a plurality of application icons and at least one connection that connects said plurality of application icons, each application icon corresponding to an application component of said application.
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