Methods and systems for creating skins

Details Methods and systems for creating skins Methods and systems for creating skins

2005-05-13

2008-11-25

Hong, Stephen S (Department: 2178)

Data processing: presentation processing of document, operator i

Presentation processing of document

Structured document

C715S744000, C715S746000, C715S762000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07458020

ABSTRACT:
Methods and systems for creating and rendering skins are described. In one described embodiment skins can be defined as sets of script files, art files, media files, and text files. These files can be used to create new and different skin appearances, layouts and functionalities. The files are organized for use using a hierarchical tag-based data structure, an example of which is an XML data structure. The data structure is processed to provide an object model. The object model can be a scriptable object model that enables script to execute to provide an interactive, dynamic skin that can respond to internal and external events. In one embodiment, a computer architecture used for rendering the skin includes a layout manager that processes an intermediate representation of the XML data structure to provide the scriptable object model. Various components of the scriptable object model can include a script engine for receiving and executing script, and one or more rendering elements. Each rendering element represents a different skin element and can be individually configured to respond to script via the script engine. The inventive systems and techniques can provide a robust, dynamic skin that can be rendered and re-rendered at runtime.

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