Automated generation of dynamic data entry user interface for relational database management systems
OwnerJohn N. Keslerinventor
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Abstract
Computer software for, computer apparatus for, and a method of automatically generating a user interface for a relational database comprising extracting schema information from the relational database and automatically generating corresponding schema and user interface metadata, storing the metadata in a repository, and automatically developing from the metadata a user interface appropriate to the relational database.
Claims21
Computer software for automatically generating a graphical user interface for a relational database, said software embodied in a computer readable medium having a set of computer instructions encoded thereon and comprising:
- utility software extracting schema information from the relational database and automatically generating corresponding schema and graphical user interface metadata stored in a repository;
- and
- user interface software at runtime automatically, and without compilation of code before runtime, developing from the metadata a graphical user interface appropriate to the relational database.
Computer apparatus for automatically generating a graphical user interface for a relational database, said apparatus comprising:
- means embodied in a computer readable medium having a set of computer instructions encoded thereon for extracting schema information from the relational database and automatically generating corresponding schema and graphical user interface metadata;
- repository means for containing said metadata;
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- means embodied in a computer readable medium having a set of computer instructions encoded thereon for at runtime automatically, and without compilation of code before runtime, developing from the metadata a graphical user interface appropriate to the relational database.
A method of automatically generating a graphical user interface for a relational database, the method comprising the steps of:
- extracting schema information from the relational database and automatically generating corresponding schema and graphical user interface metadata;
- storing the metadata in a repository;
- and
- at runtime automatically, and without compilation of code before runtime, developing from the metadata a graphical user interface appropriate to the relational database.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.