System and method of personalizing a user interface of a portable electronic device
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsAmy E. Battles, David J. Staudacher, K. Douglas Gennetten
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Abstract
A method of personalizing an interface of a portable electronic device comprises the steps of interfacing the portable electronic device to a workstation, modifying the existing version of the user interface so as to define a personalized version of the user interface, transferring information defining the personalized version of the user interface from the workstation to the portable electronic device, and implementing the personalized version of the user interface on the portable electronic device.
Claims8
A method of personalizing an interface of a portable electronic device comprising the steps of:
- interfacing the portable electronic device to a workstation;
- retrieving an existing version of a user interface from the electronic device;
- modifying the existing version of said user interface so as to define a personalized version of said user interface;
- transferring information defining said personalized version of said user interface from said workstation to the portable electronic device;
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- implementing said personalized version of said user interface on the portable electronic device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.