MERGING MODIFICATIONS TO USER INTERFACE COMPONENTS WHILE PRESERVING USER CUSTOMIZATIONS

• Main Authors: ROBINSON, JOHN C, PEELEN, TYLER M, MAGEE, ANDREW N, JIN, RONGHUA, PATRICK, NICHOLAS J, SWAMINATHAN, BHARATH, OMUSORU, VICENTIU ADRIAN, SIMONS, BRANDON J, HEAD, JAMES S, DICKINSON, RICHARD L, LEZAMA GUADARRAMA, HUMBERTO, SHENOY, ATUL, ANTENEH, MESGANAW, SHAH, ANKINI, KHAN, RUBAIYAT
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 05.04.2012
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

An application displays a user interface (UI) component. A client can apply customizations to this UI component. After the client applies customizations to the UI component, the client modifies a solution set containing solutions that modify the UI component. After the client modifies the solution set, the application displays a new version of the UI component. Modifications provided by the solutions in the solution set are applied to the new version of the UI component. In addition, the customizations remain applied to the UI component without the client manually re-applying the customizations to the UI component. Selon l'invention, une application affiche un composant d'interface utilisateur (UI). Un client peut appliquer des personnalisations à ce composant UI. Après que le client a appliqué des personnalisations au composant UI, le client modifie un ensemble de solutions contenant des solutions qui modifient le composant UI. Après que le client a modifié l'ensemble de solutions, l'application affiche une nouvelle version du composant UI. Des modifications produites par les solutions figurant dans l'ensemble de solutions sont appliquées à la nouvelle version du composant UI. En outre, les personnalisations restent appliquées au composant UI sans que le client ne réapplique manuellement les personnalisations au composant UI.