US 2016/0110054 A1Published application

System and method for customizing a theme for modifying a look and feel of a graphical user interface

OwnerSteve Kondik, Asher Isaac Simonds +3inventors

InventorsSteve Kondik, Asher Isaac Simonds, Dave Herman, Clark Scheff, Andy Mast

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Abstract

A method and system for enabling a user to customize a theme for modifying a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI comprises components that are customizable. These include icons, fonts, colors, images, etc. Themes comprise GUI elements, and a GUI element of a theme is associated with a component of a GUI. GUI elements comprise icons, colors, wallpapers, notification sounds, ringtones, etc., which are applied to components of a GUI when a theme is applied to the GUI. The system generates a theme preview for a theme, which comprises a representation of the theme applied to components of a GUI. A user can customize a theme by selecting, via an interface generated by the system, a component of a GUI, and identifying an alternate GUI element to be associated with the component in the theme.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method for customizing a look and feel of a graphical user interface (GUI) displayed by a device, the method performed by a computing system having a processor and a memory, the method comprising:

maintaining packages of GUI elements for modifying a look and feel of a GUI if applied to the GUI;
generating a first preview of a first package of GUI elements applied to the GUI,
wherein the GUI includes a customizable component,
wherein the first package of GUI elements includes a GUI element that is associated with the customizable component of the GUI, and
wherein the first preview of the first package includes the GUI element that is associated with the component of the GUI applied to the component of the GUI;
receiving a request from a user to modify a look and feel of the GUI;
displaying, via a display device, the first preview of the first package of GUI elements applied to the GUI;
receiving a request from the user to customize the package of GUI elements;
displaying, via the display device, the customizable component of the graphical user interface and the GUI element of the first package associated with the customizable component of the GUI;
receiving a request from the user to replace the GUI element of the first package with another GUI element;
identifying a second GUI element in a second package of GUI elements;
displaying, via the display device, the second GUI element of the second package;
receiving an indication from the user to customize the first package by replacing the GUI element of the first package with the GUI element of the second package;
receiving an indication from the user to apply to the GUI the customized first package including the GUI element of the second package;
and
applying to the GUI the customized first package of GUI elements including the GUI element of the second package.

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A tangible computer-readable storage medium containing instructions for causing a mobile device to perform a method for modifying a look and feel of a graphical user interface (GUI), the method comprising:

receiving a request by a user to modify a look and feel of a GUI displayed by the mobile device,
wherein the GUI includes a customizable component;
displaying a theme preview of a first theme,
wherein the first theme includes a first GUI element, and
wherein the theme preview includes the first GUI element applied to the customizable component of the GUI,
receiving a request to customize the first theme;
identifying a second GUI element;
receiving an instruction from a user to customize the first theme by associating the second GUI element with the customizable component;
receiving an instruction from the user to apply the customized first theme to the GUI;
and
applying the customized first theme to the GUI, wherein the second GUI element is applied to the customizable component.

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A method for modifying a look and feel of a graphical user interface (GUI), the method performed by a computing system that includes a processor and a memory, the method comprising:

receiving a request by a user to modify a look and feel of a GUI displayed by the mobile device,
wherein the GUI includes a customizable component;
displaying a theme preview of a first theme,
wherein the first theme includes a first GUI element, and
wherein the theme preview includes the first GUI element applied to the customizable component of the GUI,
receiving a request to customize the first theme;
identifying a second GUI element;
receiving an instruction from a user to customize the first theme by associating the second GUI element with the customizable component;
receiving an instruction from the user to apply the customized first theme to the GUI;
and
applying the customized first theme to the GUI,
wherein the second GUI element is applied to the customizable component.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.