TOOL FOR CONFIGURING AVAILABLE FUNCTIONS OF AN APPLICATION

• US 20080148169A1
• Filed: 02/23/2008
• Published: 06/19/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: DETTINGER, RICHARD D., Wenzel, Shannon E.
• Application Number:
  US12/036,227
• Publication Number:
  US 20080148169A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/771
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

Methods, systems and articles of manufacture for controlling accessibility to application functions and for configuring user interfaces to restrict access to available application functions. In one embodiment, a request is received for a web page comprising displayable content including user-selectable elements through which a user invokes one or more executable functions. The web page is provided the displayable content and then parsed to identify the user-selectable elements. At least portion of the user-selectable elements are disabled on the basis of a pre-defined transform definition to produce a re-configured web page. The re-configured web page is then returned for display.

Claims

1. A system for reconfiguring content displayed in user interfaces, comprising:

a parser for determining user-selectable elements of a web page, each user-selectable elements being configured to invoke a function;

a reconfiguration interface for displaying a representation of the functions corresponding to the user-selectable elements determined by the parser;

wherein the reconfiguration interface allows user selection of one or more of the represented functions; and

a transform definition generator for generating a transform definition on the basis of the one or more selected functions;

wherein the transform definition is configured to be invoked after the web page is produced in response to a user request and is applied to reconfigure the web page to make the one or more selected functions inaccessible.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the transform definition is applied to make the one or more selected functions inaccessible by removing the corresponding user-selectable elements.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the representation of the functions is the user-selectable elements.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the transform definition is applied to make the one or more selected functions inaccessible by removing the corresponding user-selectable elements;

and wherein the representation of the functions is the user-selectable elements.

5. A system for reconfiguring content displayed in user interfaces, comprising:

a parser for determining user-selectable elements of a web page, each user-selectable elements being configured to invoke a function;

a reconfiguration interface for displaying a representation of the functions corresponding to the user-selectable elements determined by the parser;

wherein the reconfiguration interface allows user selection of one or more of the represented functions; and

an XSL transform generator for generating an XSL transform on the basis of the one or more selected functions;

wherein the XSL transform is configured to be invoked after the web page is produced in response to a user request and is applied to reconfigure the web page to make the one or more selected functions inaccessible.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the XSL transform is applied to make the one or more selected functions inaccessible by removing the corresponding user-selectable elements.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the representation of the functions is the user-selectable elements.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the XSL transform is applied to make the one or more selected functions inaccessible by removing the corresponding user-selectable elements;

and wherein the representation of the functions is the user-selectable elements.