- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus for user-customizable application software
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Application No.: US14923396Application Date: 2015-10-26
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Publication No.: US10503378B2Publication Date: 2019-12-10
- Inventor: Philippe Brou , Allan C. Wechsler
- Applicant: Ascent Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MA Boston
- Assignee: Ascent Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Ascent Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Boston
- Agency: Kaplan IP Law, PLLC
- Agent Jonathan T. Kaplan
- Main IPC: G06F3/0484
- IPC: G06F3/0484 ; G06F3/048 ; G06F3/0482 ; G06Q10/02 ; G06Q10/06 ; G06Q50/30 ; G06F17/22 ; G06F17/24

Abstract:
An application's users are divided into two groups: administrative users and end-users. Each type of region, produced on an application's screen, is assigned a class. Each actual occurrence, of a region type, is called an instance. An end-user invokes a user-added feature by indicating a screen location and inputting a unique signal. The classes, of the screen-region instances present at the indicated location, determine whether one or more rules are activated. The rules are written by an administrative user. If activated, a rule produces a URL in accordance with an administrative-user-defined template. A value stored in the instances present, at the location indicated when the unique signal occurred, are accessed in a template by including the name of the value as a parameter. Each parameter is substituted by the text-equivalent of its current value. The URL produced can be used to provide the information desired by the end-user.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190384487A9 Methods and Apparatus for User-Customizable Application Software Public/Granted day:2019-12-19
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