Web-based deployment of context sensitive navigational elements within a user interface
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1. A system for generating a user interface for display over a network on a user device, the system comprising:
- a skeleton file comprising embedded tags and placeholders, the embedded tags defining types of information and control elements, the placeholders defining a layout of the user interface; and
one or more web servers adapted to populate the embedded tags with information and control elements based on interactions of a user.
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Abstract
A system for generating a user interface for display over a network on a user device includes a skeleton file and one or more web servers. The skeleton file contains embedded tags and placeholders. The embedded tags define types of information and control elements. The placeholders define a layout of the user interface. The one or more web servers are adapted to populate the embedded tags with information and control elements based on interactions of a user.
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1. A system for generating a user interface for display over a network on a user device, the system comprising:
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a skeleton file comprising embedded tags and placeholders, the embedded tags defining types of information and control elements, the placeholders defining a layout of the user interface; and
one or more web servers adapted to populate the embedded tags with information and control elements based on interactions of a user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 21)
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7. A method for generating a user interface for display in an Internet browser application, the method comprising:
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hosting a master version of a skeleton file on one or more centralized servers, the skeleton file containing embedded tags defining information types, site navigation elements, and placeholders defining a layout of the user interface; and
distributing programmatically the skeleton file to each of a plurality of web servers for use as a layout template for web pages served by a selected web server based on the interactions of the user. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A system for deployment of context-sensitive navigational elements comprising:
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a master definition file comprising embedded tags defining types of information and placeholders defining a layout of a user interface having one or more controls; and
a web server adapted to maintain a local version of the master definition file and to populate the embedded tags with information and local control elements associated with the web server based on interactions of a user. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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