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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 15, 2015
Aol Inc., Dulles, VA (US);
Joseph Raymond Hewitt, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Sreekant S. Kotay, Reston, VA (US);
Corey Robert Lucier, Berryville, VA (US);
David G. Besbris, Reston, VA (US);
Todd C. Brannam, Alexandria, VA (US);
Veronica Marie Early, Reston, VA (US);
Peter David Hirschberg, Linden, VA (US);
Ke Ning, Dunn Loring, VA (US);
John D. Robinson, South Riding, VA (US);
Michael Gary Wright, Ashburn, VA (US);
Oath Inc., Dulles, VA (US);
Abstract
A system for providing a user interface includes a gadget definition, a style definition, and a scene file. The gadget definition includes one or more XML-based gadget definition tags defining a gadget element and the style definition includes one or more XML-based style definition tags defining one or more style attributes to be applied to the gadget element. The scene file is an XML-based document that includes a gadget element tag that specifies the gadget element. The system further includes a parser to parse the scene file, the style definition, and the gadget definition, and to generate an object that includes a gadget object corresponding to the gadget element. The system also includes a layout engine to determine, based on the object model, a layout of the user interface, and a rendering engine to render, based on the determined layout, the user interface including the gadget element.