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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2005
John O. Louch, San Luis Obispo, CA (US);
Andrew M. Grignon, Campbell, CA (US);
Timothy Wayne Bumgarner, Sharpsburg, MD (US);
Eric Steven Peyton, Lisle, IL (US);
Max Drukman, San Francisco, CA (US);
John O. Louch, San Luis Obispo, CA (US);
Andrew M. Grignon, Campbell, CA (US);
Timothy Wayne Bumgarner, Sharpsburg, MD (US);
Eric Steven Peyton, Lisle, IL (US);
Max Drukman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An authoring environment for creating and/or editing user interface elements such as widgets used in a unified interest layer. The authoring environment facilitates creation of widgets that have a consistent appearance and mechanism, and allows third-party developers to easily create widgets that have a look and feel that is consistent with a predefined set of widgets.