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Axel Spriestersbach

Thomas Ziegert

Hartmut K Vogler

Cedric S P Ulmer

Falk Lehmann

Peter Ebert

William Patrick Tunney

Pascal T C Spadone

Michael Beigl

Samuel Rethore

Patrice Seurat

Markus Lauff

Christian Merz

Albrecht Schmidt

Marcus Lauff

Thomas Springer

Gerald Huebsch

Jun Ma

Florent Nicoulaud

Jorg Mann

Hans-Werner Gellerson

Method and computer system for evaluating the complexity a user interface are provided. A complexity indicator receives device class specific representations of the user interface. Each device class specific representation refers to a respective device class. The complexity indicator determines complexity values of layout components of the device class specific representations by using complexity evaluation functions associated with the layout components and aggregates the complexity values by device class according to a corresponding layout component hierarchy of the respective device class specific representation.

Method and computer system for evaluating the complexity of a user interface

Integrated development environment IDE (), method and computer system for developing user interface documents. An editor () is used for editing a user interface document. An adaptation engine () generates device class specific representations of the user interface document. Each device class specific representation refers to a respective device class. Device class dependent tools () of the IDE () are used for generating device class specific information and providing it to the author. Device class specific information can be information about the complexity of the user interface by device class provided by a complexity indicator (), information about how many pages are generated for which device class provided by a device class dependent view () or information about the layout for various device classes provided by a frames layouting view ().

Method and computer system for document authoring

A method includes determining geographic coordinates of a plurality of entities, the plurality of entities including a first set of entities that have each been associated with a respective context information item and a second set of entities that have each not been associated with a respective context information item. The geographic coordinates of the first set of entities are used to identify geographic coordinates located within a first geographic area associated with a first context information item. The geographic coordinates of the second set of the entities are used to identify a first entity of the second set of entities that is located within the first graphic area associated with the first context information item. The first entity is associated with the first context information item.

Automated generation of context information

Operating a browser that interprets a markup page and thereby displays a virtual keyboard () to a user. The operation comprises: displaying () a first keyboard area (); presenting () first and second input fields of first and second types, respectively, to the user; selecting () an input field by relating an input device to either the first input field or the second input field; displaying () a second keyboard area corresponding to the type of the selected input field; reading () input from the user from the first keyboard area and from the second keyboard area to the selected field; and changing () the first keyboard area according to user commands to a keyboard selector.

Operating a browser to display first and second virtual keyboard areas that the user changes directly or indirectly

A user interface including data display elements and a data selection element corresponding to each data display element. The data selection elements can be operable to select data for display in the corresponding data display element. The user interface can also include a display manager to update the data display elements with the data selected by the data selection elements.

Displaying data tables in user interfaces

A location context-aware mobile system determines the location of a mobile device and updates a user interface based on the location of the device. By using the location of the mobile device to reduce the amount of information required to be entered by a user in a business process application, the system increases the feasibility of providing business process applications on mobile devices such as mobile telephones.

Integrating geographical contextual information into mobile enterprise applications

Servicing a request for information from a device with limited network, memory, and display resources includes receiving a request for a page of information from a client device. The requested page is retrieved, and points within the page at which the page may be divided into sub-pages are identified. The points at which the page may be divided may be statically defined within the page or dynamically determined from the structure of the page. The page is separated at the identified points into multiple sub-pages, and it is determined if each of the multiple sub-pages may be used by the client device. A sub-page may be used by the client device if a weight of the sub-page, which may be expressly calculated or estimated, is less than a maximum allowable weight. The multiple sub-pages are linked, and the multiple sub-pages are individually transferred to the client device.

Dialog fragmentation for mobile devices

Integrating contextual information into mobile enterprise applications

A worker carries a sensor that senses a tag device, preferably a passive RFID tag, in or on an article being processed. The sensor obtains wirelessly from the tag device identifying data, such as a numerical tag, which has been recorded as corresponding to a specific article. A computer connected with the receiver uses the identifying data to obtain a network address on a computer data network. Data relating to the worker contact with the article is sent over the network to the address accessed, and the server, or a management computer attached to it, causes a record to be stored reporting the access regarding the article, and other bookkeeping or process control activities are performed as claimed.

Computerized system for automatically monitoring processing of objects

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Karlsruhe, Germany

Axel Spriestersbach