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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2003
Hilal Al-hilali, Seattle, WA (US);
Mark Sok-man Hong, Bothwell, WA (US);
Daniel Thomas Travison, Jr., Carnation, WA (US);
Jonathan Marshall Rowlett, Sammamish, WA (US);
Samuel LI, Bellevue, WA (US);
John Anthony Messec, Seattle, WA (US);
Abhishek Gulati, Seattle, WA (US);
Hilal Al-Hilali, Seattle, WA (US);
Mark Sok-Man Hong, Bothwell, WA (US);
Daniel Thomas Travison, Jr., Carnation, WA (US);
Jonathan Marshall Rowlett, Sammamish, WA (US);
Samuel Li, Bellevue, WA (US);
John Anthony Messec, Seattle, WA (US);
Abhishek Gulati, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A management user interface can be generated at run time via subtractive extensible context-based filtering. Definitions of user interface elements can include an indication of appropriate contexts for which the user interface elements are to be shown. Context factors can include application state, external state, surface or element definitions, or some combination thereof. The context-based filtering approach allows definition of user interface elements and user interface surfaces so that appearance of additional elements in the appropriate surfaces can be accomplished without programming. For example, a user interface surface definition can specify categories of user interface elements. At run time, those user interface elements of the category can be chosen for display. When new elements relating to the category are added, the new elements appear when the surface is rendered. Other features include heterogeneous type selection and exact number homogeneous type selection.