UI Rendering Engine Decoupling Application Logic
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional user interface (UI) development for electronic devices is cumbersome and labor-intensive, leading to inconsistent and visually unappealing UIs across applications, with each application responsible for its own UI rendering, resulting in inefficient data flow and maintenance challenges.
Innovation Solution
A UI framework that separates UI visualization, logic, and data, allowing a single UI rendering engine to interact with multiple applications for seamless data requests, reducing UI-related code in applications and enabling enhanced user experiences through scalable and customizable graphical capabilities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If each application is responsible for its own UI rendering, then application independence is maintained, but UI consistency and visual appeal deteriorate across applications
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the UI rendering system into two independent components: a UI framework that provides consistent rendering capabilities and individual applications that provide data and logic. This segmentation allows applications to maintain independence while the framework ensures UI consistency across all applications through standardized rendering rules and visual styles.
Solution Approach 2:
The UI framework acts as an intermediary layer between applications and the display system. It mediates the rendering process by receiving data from applications, applying consistent styling and visual rules, and producing unified UI output. This intermediary ensures that all applications adhere to the same visual standards while maintaining their functional independence.
2Adaptability or versatility
If each application handles its own UI rendering, then application autonomy is preserved, but development complexity and maintenance challenges increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts UI rendering logic from individual applications and places it in a separate UI framework. This extraction removes the burden of UI rendering complexity from applications, allowing them to focus on their core functionality and data management while the framework handles all rendering concerns centrally.
Solution Approach 2:
The UI framework provides universal rendering capabilities that serve all applications. Instead of each application implementing its own rendering logic, the framework offers a multi-functional rendering engine that can handle diverse application requirements through a unified interface, reducing overall system complexity.
3Manufacturing precision
If a single UI rendering engine serves multiple applications, then UI consistency is improved, but the rendering engine complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by allowing the rendering engine to handle different application requirements through standardized interfaces. The engine maintains simplicity through uniform processing rules while adapting to specific application needs through configuration parameters and data-driven approaches, rather than requiring complex specialized logic for each application.
Solution Approach 2:
The rendering engine manages complexity through parameter-driven configuration rather than structural complexity. Different applications are supported by changing rendering parameters, styles, and data inputs rather than requiring different rendering logic, allowing consistency to be achieved through configurable parameters rather than engine complexity.
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AI summary
A user interface (UI) system where at a UI client engine is associated with an application, and a UI rendering engine is associated with the client engine. The UI client engine receives, from a UI client engine associated with an application, a UI component tree for the application, the UI component tree comprising: UI component nodes having associated full contextual rendering information, and a custom rendering element node having associated incomplete contextual rendering information; generating UI rendering instructions in accordance with the UI component tree by: for each UI component node, using the full contextual rendering information to generate UI component rendering instructions, for the custom rendering element node, retrieving custom rendering instructions generated by the application and generating incomplete rendering instructions based on the incomplete contextual rendering information; and combines the UI component rendering instructions, the incomplete rendering instructions and the retrieved custom rendering instructions; and renders the UI in accordance with the generated UI rendering instructions.