BUILDING INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTS UTILIZING ROLES AND STATES

• US 20120278691A1
• Filed: 04/27/2011
• Published: 11/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Heiney, Ronald Lee, Pruitt, Byron S., Ryavec, Matthew F., Zdzitavetskaya, Anastasiya Aleksandrovna
• Application Number:
  US13/095,647
• Publication Number:
  US 20120278691A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/202
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/10 Text processing natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30; processing or translation of natural language G06F40/40

Abstract

In one embodiment, a page of an interactive document and a user interface to enable building of the page are displayed. A designation of an end user role applicable to the document and a designation of a state for the page are received via the interface. A designation of a property is received via the interface, the property to be applied to a component of the page when the page is accessed, in the state, by an end user indentified with the role.

Claims

1. A computer-readable storage medium containing instructions to build an interactive document that, when executed, cause a computer to:

display a page of the document and a user interface to enable budding of the page;

receive via the interface

a designation of an end user role applicable to the document,

a designation of a state for the page,

a designation of a property to be applied to a component of the page when the page is accessed, in the state, by an end user identified with the role.

2. The medium of claim 1, wherein

the display of the page and the interface occurs during a design mode,

the designations of the role, the state, and the property are received during the design mode, and

the application of the property is to occur during a production mode.

3. The medium of claim 1, wherein the properly comprises a transition property.

4. The medium of claim 1, wherein the property comprises at least one of visibility, editability, transition, color, font, or font size.

5. The medium of claim 1, wherein the interface includes a role control that, while selected, renders changes to the component applicable to the role represented by the control.

6. The medium of claim 1, wherein the interface includes a state control that, while selected, renders changes to the component applicable to the state represented by the control.

7. The medium of claim 1, wherein the interface includes a component control to enable designation of a property to a component, the designation conditional upon page state and end user role.

8. The medium of claim 1, further comprising receiving via the interface designations of additional end user roles for the document.

9. The medium of claim 1, further comprising receiving via the interface designations of additional states for the page.

10. A system to build an interactive document, comprising:

a display module, operable to display a page of the document and a user interface to enable building of the page;

a role module, operable to receive via the interface a designation of an end user role applicable to the document;

a state module, operable to receive via the interface a designation of a state for the page;

a property module, operable to receive via the interface a designation of a property to be applied to a component of the page when the page is accessed, in the state, by an end user identified with the role.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein

the display of the page and the interface occurs during a design mode,

the designations of the role, the state, and the property are received during the design mode, and

the application of the property is to occur during a production mode.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the interface includes a role control that, while selected, renders changes to the component applicable to the role represented by the control.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the interface includes a state control that, while selected, renders changes to the component applicable to the state represented by the control.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the interface includes a component control to enable designation of a property to a component, the designation conditional upon page state and end user role.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the property comprises a transition property.

16. The system of claim 10, wherein the property comprises at least one of visibility, editability, color, font, or font size.

17. The system of claim 10, further comprising receiving via the interface designations of additional end user roles and additional states for the document.

18. A method to build an interactive document, comprising:

displaying, during a design mode, a page of the document and a user interface to enable building of the page, the interface including a role control, a state control, and a component control;

receiving, during the design mode via the role control, a designation of an end user role applicable to the document;

receiving, during the design mode via the state control, a designation of a state for the page;

receiving, during the design mode via the component control, a designation of a property to be applied to a component of the page when the page is accessed, during a production mode and in the state, by an end user identified with the role.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the property comprises at least one of transition, visibility, editability, color, font, or font size.

20. The method of claim 18, further comprising receiving via the interface designations of additional end user roles and additional states for the document.