Centralized UI Element Repository for Consistent Computing System Representation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing user interface management software for computing systems often provides inconsistent and inaccurate UI elements, leading to user confusion and reduced productivity due to generic or outdated representations of system elements across different UI clients.
Innovation Solution
A centralized repository of UI elements is established to provide consistent and up-to-date UI information to UI clients, ensuring that all users, regardless of their client, receive accurate and relevant visual, tactile, or multimedia representations of computing system elements, thereby improving user experience and reducing errors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If each UI client independently provides UI elements, then each client can have customized UI elements, but UI elements become inconsistent and inaccurate across different clients
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized UI element repository as an intermediary between the computing system and multiple UI clients. This repository stores standardized UI elements that are retrieved by all clients, ensuring consistency and accuracy while allowing each client to access the same reliable source. The repository acts as a mediator that resolves the conflict between customization needs and consistency requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges the scattered UI element definitions from multiple independent UI clients into a single centralized repository. By combining all UI element definitions in one location, the system ensures that all clients access the same accurate and consistent UI elements, eliminating the inconsistencies that arise from independent client-based definitions.
2Reliability
If a centralized repository of UI elements is implemented, then consistency and accuracy of UI elements improve, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized UI element repository serves multiple functions: it stores UI elements, manages updates, and provides access to all UI clients through a standardized interface. This multi-functional design consolidates what would otherwise require separate mechanisms in each UI client, reducing overall system complexity while improving reliability.
3Productivity
If UI elements are updated in each UI client independently, then each client can have up-to-date elements, but updates become outdated and conflicting
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-defining and storing accurate UI element definitions in the centralized repository. These predefined elements serve as the single source of truth, eliminating the need for each UI client to independently update elements and preventing outdated or conflicting representations from propagating through the system.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for providing user interface (UI) information associated with a computing system are disclosed. According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for providing UI information comprises receiving, from a requesting entity, a request for information associated with an element of a computing system, selecting, using data from the request, a UI element for representing the element from a repository comprising a set of UI elements for representing various elements of the computing system, and providing, to the requesting entity, UI information for displaying the UI element.