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Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2009

Filed:

Jun. 03, 2005
Applicants:

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);

Inventors:

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);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/048 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
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.


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