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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2015
Applicant:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventors:
Michael Matas, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kimon Tsinteris, San Francisco, CA (US);
Austin Sarner, San Francisco, CA (US);
Charles Melcher, New York, NY (US);
Assignee:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01); G06T 15/60 (2006.01); G06T 11/60 (2006.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 17/21 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 17/22 (2006.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 8/34 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0485 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 3/04815 (2013.01); G06F 3/04817 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06F 3/04845 (2013.01); G06F 3/04847 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01); G06F 8/34 (2013.01); G06F 17/211 (2013.01); G06F 17/2241 (2013.01); G06T 11/60 (2013.01); G06T 15/60 (2013.01); H04L 67/18 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04808 (2013.01); H04L 67/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method performed by one or more computing devices including defining a hierarchical structure for a user interface (UI) that includes defining one or more layers of the hierarchical structure, adding one or more objects at each layer, and specifying one or more relationships among particular objects. The method further including associating metadata with each object at each layer, the metadata describing how the corresponding object is presented in the user interface.