METADATA DRIVEN USER INTERFACE SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20080276218A1
• Filed: 04/04/2008
• Published: 11/06/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sugarcrm Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Sugarcrm Incorporated
• Inventors: Taylor, Jacob, Itani, Majed, Smith, Roger
• Granted Patent: US 9,268,538 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/106
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/30 Creation or generation of source code
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces

Abstract

A metadata driven user interface system and method are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, a software-based customer relationship management system and method may include the metadata driven user interface system.

Claims

1. A software application system, comprising:

a computing device with a processing unit;

an application having a plurality of lines of computer code wherein the plurality of lines of computer code are executed by the processing unit of the computing device to generate a user interface of the application;

one or more controllers that each control the generation of the application;

a controller factory that selects a particular controller for a particular instantiation of the application;

a module controller that selects an action associated with the instantiation of the application based on the selected particular controller; and

a view factory that selects a particular view based on the selected action.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the controller factory selects from a custom controller,