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Thomas Ziegert

Axel Spriestersbach

Cedric S P Ulmer

Falk Lehmann

Samuel Rethore

Patrice Seurat

Hartmut K Vogler

Cedric Ulmer

Pascal T C Spadone

Markus Lauff

Marcus Lauff

Jun Ma

Florent Nicoulaud

Axel Spiestersbach

Thomas Springer

Gerald Huebsch

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

Methods and computer systems are provided for authoring documents. In one implementation, a computer system is provided that comprises an editor for editing a UI document, a pagination engine for paginating the UI document, and a pagination display for displaying a paginated document representation with respect to the UI document. The editor may be interfaced to the pagination engine so that the pagination engine paginates the user interface description document while being edited for a plurality of device categories. Further, the pagination engine may be interfaced to the pagination display so that the pagination display displays a paginated document representation for each device category with respect to the current editing status of the UI document.

Methods and computer systems for document authoring

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

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 contextual information into mobile enterprise applications

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Darmstadt, Germany

Thomas Ziegert