Computer Control of Access to Fields and Features of an Application

• US 20190138161A1
• Filed: 11/06/2017
• Published: 05/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lifetrack Medical Systems Private Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Lifetrack Medical Systems, Inc.
• Inventors: Schulze, Eric, Rees, Brendan Philip
• Granted Patent: US 10,642,451 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/177 of tables; using ruled lines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/197 Version control for software G06F8/71
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

Among other things, instances of at least one type of page of a user interface are presented to at least a first user and a second user. Each instance includes a current scope of user interface elements. All of the instances have current scopes that are the same as or subsets of a prototype scope of user interface elements for that type of page. A permitted scope of user interface elements are available to each corresponding user. The permitted scope of the second user is the same as or a subset of the permitted scope of the first user. Selections of user interface elements to be included in an updated scope are received from the first user. The selections include only user interface elements that belong to both the prototype scope for that type of page and the permitted scope of the first user.

Claims

1. An electronic system comprising:

one or more processors; and

hardware storage storing instructions executable by the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

presenting a first instance of a given type of page of a user interface to a first user and a second instance of the given type of page of the user interface to a second user, the first instance of the given type of page including a first current scope of user interface elements, the second instance of the given type of page including a second current scope of user interface elements, the first current scope and the second current scope being the same as or subsets of a prototype scope of user interface elements for that the given type of page,

persistently storing information representing a first available scope of the first user and a second available scope of the second user, the first available scope comprising user interface elements that are available to the first user in the given type of page and other types of pages of the user interface, the second available scope comprising user interface elements that are available to the second user in the given type of page and other types of pages of the user interface, the second available scope of the second user being the same as or a subset of the first available scope of the first user,

receiving from the first user selections of user interface elements to be included in an updated scope of user interface elements for the second instance of the given type of page, the selections including only user interface elements that belong to both the prototype scope for the given type of page and the first available scope of the first user, and

persistently storing the updated scope.

2. The system of claim 1 in which the user interface elements comprise at least one field.

3. The system of claim 1 in which the user interface elements comprise at least one control.

4. The system of claim 1 in which the user interface elements expose corresponding facilities of an application.

5. The system of claim 4 in which at least one of the user interface elements comprises a field and the corresponding facility of the application comprises a field of data values.

6. The system of claim 4 in which at least one of the user interface elements comprises a control and the corresponding facility of the application comprises a function of the application.

7. The system of claim 1 comprising presenting to the first user a list of the user interface elements that belong to both the prototype scope for the given type of page and the first available scope of the first user.

8. The system of claim 7 in which each of the user interface elements in the list is associated with a selection control to indicate whether the element is to be included in the updated scope.

9. The system of claim 8 in which the selection control comprises a check box.

10. The system of claim 7 in which each of the user interface elements in the list is associated with an indicator of whether the element is to be exposed in the user interface for the second instance of the given type of page.

11. The system of claim 7 comprising presenting to the first user the second instance of the given type of page for which the selections are being made to be viewable simultaneously with the list of the user interface elements.

12. The system of claim 11 comprising updating the presentation of the second instance of the type of page for which the selections are being made in real time according to the selections.

13. A computer-based method comprising:

presenting a first instance instances of at least one a given type of page of a user interface to a first user and a second instance of the given type of page of the user interface to a second user, the first instance of the given type of page including a first current scope of user interface elements, the second instance of the given type of page including a second current scope of user interface elements, the first current scope and the second current scope being the same as or subsets of a prototype scope of user interface elements for the given type of page,

persistently storing information representing a first available scope of the first user and a second available scope of the second user, the first available scope comprising user interface elements that are available to the first user in the given type of page and other types of pages of the user interface, the second available scope comprising user interface elements that are available to the second user in the given type of page and other types of pages of the user interface, the second available scope of the second user being the same as or a subset of the first available scope of the first user, and

receiving from the first user selections of user interface elements to be included in an updated scope of user interface elements for the second instance of the given type of page, the selections including only user interface elements that belong to both the prototype scope for the given type of page and the first available scope of the first user, and

persistently storing the updated scope.

14. An electronic system comprising:

a processor; and

machine-readable hardware storage storing instructions executable by the processor to perform operations comprising;

presenting a page of a user interface comprising a current scope of user interface elements suitable for a second user of the page, the page being presented to a first user,

presenting to the first user a list of user interface elements that include at least the user interface elements of the current scope,

receiving from the first user selections of user interface elements of the list to be included in an updated scope of user interface elements for the page,

cropping the list of user interface elements to include in the updated scope only the ones selected by the first user to be included in the updated scope, and

persistently storing the updated scope.

15. The system of claim 14 in which, before the cropping, the list comprises user interface elements that belong to both a prototype scope of user interface elements for the page and an available scope of user interface elements for the first user.

16. The system of claim 14 in which the cropping is in response to an action by the first user.

17. The system of claim 16 in which the action by the first user comprises exiting from the page.

18. The system of claim 14 comprising, after the cropping, presenting the page to the first user including the updated scope.

19. The system of claim 14 in which the updated scope comprises part of an available scope of user interface elements for the first user.

21. The system of claim 14 in which the stored instructions are executable by the processor to perform operations comprising:

receiving a request of the first user to have access to a user interface of an application in a first mode, the user interface being associated with a second user,

enabling the second user to access to the user interface in a second mode by logging into to the application as the second user,

the user interface in the first mode having a first scope of user interface elements that are available to the first user, the user interface in the second mode comprising a second scope of user interface elements that are available to the second user, the first scope being the same as or larger than the second scope, and

receiving from the first user in the first mode selections of user interface elements in the first scope to be included in an updated version of the second scope.

22. The system of claim 21 in which receiving the request of the first user to have access to the user interface comprises receiving a login by the first user that is different from a login that the second user would use to access the user interface in the second mode.

23. The system of claim 21 in which the login by the first user uses credentials of the second user.

24. The system of claim 21 in which the login by the first user comprises a login TO the account of the second user.

20. A method comprising:

presenting a page of a user interface comprising a current scope of user interface elements suitable for a second user of the page, the page being presented to a first user,

presenting to the first user a list of user interface elements that include at least the user interface elements of the current scope,

receiving from the first user selections of user interface elements of the list to be included in an updated scope of user interface elements for the page,

cropping the list of user interface elements to include in the updated scope only the ones selected by the first user to be included in the updated scope, and

persistently storing the updated scope.