Configuration of displays for targeted user communities

• US 20070055944A1
• Filed: 11/07/2006
• Published: 03/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Anil Mukundan, Domingo Mihovilovic, Faud Rashid, Jesse Ambrose, Peter Thorson
• Original Assignee: Anil Mukundan, Domingo Mihovilovic, Faud Rashid, Jesse Ambrose, Peter Thorson
• Inventors: Mukundan, Anil, Ambrose, Jesse, Mihovilovic, Domingo, Thorson, Peter, Rashid, Faud
• Granted Patent: US 10,372,811 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/762
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates

Abstract

A method and apparatus is provided to generate a plural number of differing data displays, each based upon a multi-information display template that has the information to drive each separate data display. Each data display may be different as regards selected information to appear on each data display, selected placement of the information on each data display depending upon a selected and defined style, an at least one selected and defined mode of information to appear on any one data display, and the utilization of specific display program capabilities (such as a browser). Additionally, a method and apparatus is provided for a user to enter the information into a computing system, and for the computing system to generate the multi-display template.

Claims

1-51. -51. (canceled)

52. A computer-implemented method comprising:

creating a data display, wherein said creating comprises

defining a display of information, wherein said defining defines at least one of

an information presence, wherein said information presence defines a presence of information on said display, and

an information placement, wherein said information placement defines a placement of said information on said display;

defining a database entity, wherein

said database entity comprises said information presence and said information placement; and

generating a display template for said data display using said data display and said database entity.

53. The method of claim 52, wherein

said defining of said information presence is conditional based upon at least one of a display identification and a display mode, and

said defining of said information placement is conditional based upon a style.

54. The method of claim 53, wherein

said database entity comprises at least one of a conditional display appearance and a conditional placement data.

55. The method of claim 54, said generating further comprises:

generating a display that is supported by said display terminal browser, wherein

said database entity further comprises a display tag, and

said display tag is conditionally executed, if a display terminal browser requesting a data display is configured to support said display tag,

56. The method of claim 52, wherein said defining said information presence comprises at least one of:

defining a presence for said data display, and

a logical combination of at least one of a specific data display and a data display other than said specific data display.

57. The method of claim 52, wherein said defining said information placement comprises at least one of:

defining a placement for said data display, and

a logical combination of at least one of a specific data display and a data display other than said specific display.

58. The method of claim 52, wherein said defining said information placement comprises:

modifying said placement of information on said data display.

59. The method of claim 52, wherein said information placement comprises:

defining a placement for at least one placement style.

60. The method of claim 52, wherein said database entity comprises:

a record for each of at least one of a plurality of markup/display languages.

61. The method of claim 52, wherein said database entity comprises:

a record comprising data which indicates a data display of a plurality of data displays on which said information appears.

62. The method of claim 52, wherein

said display mode is one of a plurality of display modes,

said display is one of a plurality of displays, and

said database entity is configured to provide an indication of ones of said modes for which each of said data will appear on one of said data displays.

64. The method of claim 52, wherein said database entity comprises:

at least one of markup/display language statements and position tags; and

a record, wherein

said display is one of a plurality of displays,

said data is one of a plurality of such data, and

said record is configured to indicate a position of each of said such data for each of said displays.

63. The method of claim data display, wherein said defining said display of information further comprises:

defining an information appearance, wherein said defining said information appearance comprises

selecting information to be displayed and information not to display, wherein said selecting is performed according to said display mode.