US 2006/0066632 A1 · Maintaining graphical presentations based on user customizations

Abstract

A method and system for rendering graphics based on user customizations in a computer graphics application are disclosed. The customizations relate to various properties of one or more graphical elements in the graphic. Such properties include positioning, size, formatting and other visual attributes associated with the graphical elements. These properties may be defined as either semantic properties or presentation properties. Semantic properties are persistent across all graphic definitions. Presentation properties are specific to the graphic definition to which each particular graphic belongs. Thus, a customization to a semantic property of a displayed graphic is preserved in memory for application not only to the currently displayed graphic, but also to all other graphic definitions that may be displayed in the future. In contrast, a customization to a presentation property is only preserved for the currently displayed graphic, and thus not preserved for all other graphic definitions.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for rendering a graphic for display by a display module, the method comprising:

receiving selection of a graphic definition for the graphic;
creating the graphic based on the graphic definition and applying a customization to the graphic previously made to a different graphic corresponding to a different graphic definition;
and
providing the created graphic to the display module for display thereby.

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A system for rendering a graphic for display on a display screen, the system comprising:

a plurality of possible graphic definitions each specifying default properties for associated graphics operable to represent the content;
a semantic model defining semantic properties for all possible graphic definitions such that each associated graphic represents a similar item in the content using a similar semantic property;
a customization engine operable to utilize the semantic model to create a first graphic corresponding to a first graphic definition and a second graphic corresponding to a second graphic definition such that the first graphic and the second graphic have similar semantic properties;
and
a user interface presenting a graphical representation for each of the plurality of possible graphic definitions for selection by a user, and in response to selection of either the graphical representation associated with the first graphic definition or the second graphic definition, displaying the first graphic or the second graphic, respectively, on the display screen as defined by the customization engine.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Maintaining graphical presentations based on user customizations

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Abstract

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