Relegending Interface Device Views via Style Sheets
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing interface devices lack a straightforward and convenient method for customization, particularly for original equipment manufacturers who want to tailor the 'look and feel' of the devices, including logos, color schemes, and visual arrangements, which is complex and inconvenient with current configurations.
Innovation Solution
A novel approach that allows for the 'relegending' of interface devices by adapting static and dynamic content, using bitmap files, JPEG files, and HTML standard style sheets to customize screen views, enabling easy modification of visual elements and programming functions, allowing for a wide range of applications across various settings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If existing interface device configurations are used, then basic functionality is maintained, but customization of look and feel is complex and inconvenient
Solution Approach 1:
The interface device is segmented into multiple independent style sheet files (e.g., header.style, body.style, button.style) that can be individually customized. Each style sheet controls specific visual aspects of the interface, allowing manufacturers to modify only the portions they need without affecting the entire interface or requiring complex global configuration changes.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses template-based style sheets that can be copied and reused across different interface screens and configurations. Once a style sheet is created with desired visual characteristics, it can be replicated and applied throughout the interface device, enabling consistent branding and look-and-feel customization without recreating styles from scratch for each screen.
2Adaptability or versatility
If extensive customization options are provided, then adaptability to different manufacturers is improved, but the configuration process becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The style sheet framework provides universal customization capabilities that work across all interface device models and screens. The same style sheet mechanisms can accommodate different manufacturers' branding requirements, color schemes, and visual preferences through a unified approach, eliminating the need for manufacturer-specific configuration procedures while maintaining high adaptability.
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AI summary
A technique is provided for adapting or “relegending” interface device views. The views include static content and dynamic content. At least a part of the static content defined a look and feel of the interface screens, including screens in a design-time environment and a run-time environment. The adaptable static content may be loaded as bitmaps, JPEG files, and so forth, such as in HTML standard style sheets. The static content may be changed for various original equipment manufacturers, applications, and so forth, while allowing dynamic content to vary depending upon the software and application running on the interface device.