SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIALOG CUSTOMIZATION

• US 20140282130A1
• Filed: 03/13/2014
• Published: 09/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Wix.com Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Wixpress Ltd. (Wix.com Ltd.)
• Inventors: GOLDSTEIN, Yuval, Marcus, Avi, Ptashek, Sharon, Golan, Kfir, Shmuglin, Daniel
• Granted Patent: US 9,753,911 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/762
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates

Abstract

A system includes, for a selection of objects on a displayed page of the system, each object having pre-defined customizable attributes and non-customizable attributes, a sorter to sort the customizable attributes of the selected objects. The system also includes a dialog builder to build a customization dialog specific to the selection based on the sorted pre-defined customizable attributes, a displayer to display the dialog and an updater to receive input according to the dialog and to update the customizable attributes according to the input.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

for a selection of displayed objects of said system, wherein at least one of said selected objects has pre-defined customizable attributes and non-customizable attributes, a sorter to sort said customizable attributes of said selected objects; and

a dialog builder to build a customization dialog specific to said selection based on said sorted pre-defined customizable attributes.

2. The system according to claim 1 and also comprising:

a displayer to display said dialog; and

an updater to receive input according to said dialog and to update said customizable attributes according to said input.

3. The system according to claim 1 and wherein each said at least one selected object has at least one associated customization record listing said pre-defined customizable attributes.

4. The system according to claim 1 and wherein said objects are at least one of atomic component, container component, linking component, third party component, template, view and a relationship object representing a relationship between at least two objects.

5. The system according to claim 1 and wherein said selection is at least one of a pre-defined selection, user selected and an expansion of a selection.

6. The system according to claim 5 and wherein said expansion is at least one of a selection expanded to include contained objects, a selection expanded to include related objects and a selection expanded to include inherited objects.

7. The system according to claim 5 and wherein said selection is at least one of a direct selection of at least one object, a selection according to an intersection or inclusion with a page area selected by said user and a selection according to a user defined query.

8. The system according to claim 1 and wherein said system supports the display of multiple instances of objects on a single page and wherein said selection comprises a subset of said multiple displayed object instances.

9. The system according to claim 1 and wherein said sorter merges multiple configurable attribute entries according to a common property of said entries.

10. The system according to claim 1 and wherein said sorter sorts attributes according to priority.

11. The system according to claim 1 and wherein said sorter sorts attributes according to hierarchical ID structure.

12. The system according to claim 1 and wherein said sorter arranges attributes according to hints provided in the objects to be affected.

13. The system according to claim 3 and wherein said sorter sorts attributes according to priority based on said at least one associated customized record.

14. The system according to claim 1 and wherein said sorter sorts according to a pre-defined condition.

15. The system according to claim 13 and wherein conflicting said least one associated customized records are united based on at least one of priority, common values and related object properties.

16. The system according to claim 1 and wherein said dialog is at least one of linear, hierarchical and two-dimensional.

17. The system according to claim 1 and wherein said dialog is laid out according to at least one of customization priority parameters, customization hierarchy parameters, location of the configured objects component on the page, and dialog layout hints provided in the objects to be affected.

18. The system according to claim 2 and wherein said updater updates using a formula pre-defined for said customizable attributes.

19. The system according to claim 2 and wherein said updater updates continuously as said attributes are modified to provide a WSYWYG (what you see is what you get) effect.

20. The system according to claim 2 and wherein said updater updates gradually as said attributes are modified to provide an animation between two versions of said object having different said customizable attribute values.

21. The system according to claim 2 and wherein said updater updates a view within at least one of a linking component, a specific view instance selected by a user and a view template definition.

22. The system according to claim 1 and wherein said system is one of the following:

a website building system, a web page construction system, an on-line application building tool, an off-line application building tool, and a mobile application building tool.

23. A computerized method comprising:

for a selection of displayed objects, wherein at least one of said selected objects has pre-defined customizable attributes and non-customizable attributes, sorting said customizable attributes of said selected objects; and

building a customization dialog specific to said selection based on said sorted pre-defined customizable attributes.

24. The method according to claim 23 and also comprising:

displaying said dialog; and

receiving input according to said dialog and updating said customizable attributes according to said input.

25. The method according to claim 23 and wherein each said at least one selected object has at least one associated customization record listing said pre-defined customizable attributes.

26. The method according to claim 23 and wherein said objects are at least one of atomic component, container component, third party component, template, view and a relationship object representing a relationship between at least two objects.

27. The method according to claim 23 and wherein said selection is at least one of a pre-defined selection, user selected and an expansion of a selection.

28. The method according to claim 27 and wherein said expansion is at least one of a selection expanded to include contained objects, a selection expanded to include related objects and a selection expanded to include inherited objects.

29. The method according to claim 27 and wherein said selection is at least one of a direct selection of at least one object, a selection according to an intersection or inclusion with a page area selected by said user and a selection according to a user defined query.

30. The method according to claim 23 and wherein said method comprises displaying multiple instances of objects on a single page and wherein said selection comprises a subset of said multiple displayed object instances.

31. The method according to claim 23 and wherein said sorting comprises merging multiple configurable attribute entries according to a common property of said entries.

32. The method according to claim 23 and wherein said sorting is according to priority.

33. The method according to claim 23 and wherein said sorting is according to hierarchical ID structure.

34. The method according to claim 23 and wherein said sorting is according to hints provided in the objects to be affected.

35. The method according to claim 25 and wherein said sorting is according to priority based on said at least one associated customized record.

36. The method according to claim 23 and wherein said sorting is according to a pre-defined condition.

37. The method according to claim 35 and also comprising uniting conflicting said least one associated customized records based on at least one of priority, common values and related object properties.

38. The method according to claim 23 and wherein said dialog is at least one of linear, hierarchical and two-dimensional.

39. The method according to claim 23 and also comprising laying out said dialog according to at least one of customization priority parameters, customization hierarchy parameters, location of said configured objects on said page and dialog layout hints provided in the objects to be affected.

40. The method according to claim 24 and wherein said updating uses a formula pre-defined for said customizable attributes.

41. The method according to claim 24 and wherein said updating is continuous as said attributes are modified to provide a WSYWYG (what you see is what you get) effect.

42. The method according to claim 24 and wherein said updating is gradual as said attributes are modified to provide an animation between two versions of said components having different said customizable attribute values.

43. The method according to claim 24 and wherein said updating comprises revising a view within at least one of a linking component, a specific view instance selected by a user and a view template definition.