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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2003
Ralf Weber, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Thomas Alsina, Paris, FR;
Ralf Weber, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Thomas Alsina, Paris, FR;
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A menu theme is created using a menu theme description file that contains a general description of each object (such as a drop zone area, selectable menu buttons, menu title, theme background, etc.) contained in the menu theme. In addition, the menu theme description file contains a path to one or more patch files for each object in the menu theme, the patch file being used to render the object. The patch file contains a description of an arrangement of modules including a list of the modules and relationships between them. In some embodiments, a patch file is created using a composer application that displays a graphical representation of the patch file and translates the graphical representation to a textual representation.