A business process model (100) pertaining to an application product (102) is associated with a set of views that illustrate the realization of the business process in the appplication product (102). Further, the business process model is displayed to the user together with the set of views to enhance the user's understanding of the business process provided by the application product (102).

Method and apparatus to facilitate development of a customer-specific business process model

A modeling system for universal specification of user interfaces. The system provides a means for defining user interfaces, including highly complex and dynamic user interfaces, in a manner that is independent of any implementation context. The modeling system leads from a user-friendly visual representation of the user interface, through progressively detailed specifications of structural and behavioral aspects of the user interface parts, until a rigorous definition of the user interface in all its contexts of use is achieved. Using the information captured in the model, tools that automatically generate the fully working user interface code can be built.

Modeling system for graphic user interface

A mobile terminal includes a controller, a touch screen, a memory configured to store a first list of at least one e-book of a first user and first reading progress information for each of the at least one e-book of the first user, and a communication module configured to receive e-book information including a second list of at least one e-book of a second user and second reading progress information for each of the at least one e-book of the second user. The controller is configured to display at least one icon on the touch screen, each of the at least one icon representing one of the at least one e-book in the first list or one of the at least one e-book in the second list, and display the first and second reading progress information corresponding to at least one e-book included in both the first and second lists.

Mobile terminal and method of controlling the mobile terminal

Apparatus and methods relating to mobile widgets. In particular, apparatus and methods for integrating network services and/or network resources with widget capabilities, managing mobile widgets, providing portability to mobile widgets, and generating content with respect to a mobile widget. In one aspect, a method for integration of network services and/or resources with widget capabilities is provided. The method may include providing for an interface between a widget management component and at least one of a network resource or a network service. The method may also include accessing, at the widget management component via the interface, at least one of a network resource or network service. Further, the method may include integrating the network resource or the network service with a widget functionality.

Apparatus and methods for managing widgets in a wireless communication environment

A system automatically builds custom virtual appliances and/or other computing environments and their components, where applicable, based on user requirements and may offer a service for hosting, maintaining, monitoring and managing such appliances remotely. These virtual appliances may be delivered over a network, such as the Internet, and can be run at a customer site or at a hosting provider. Some embodiments of the invention can build these appliances using custom applications developed by customers.

Automation for virtualized it environments

A method and apparatus for the specification and automatic generation of user interfaces of information system (computer programs) is provided. The method is based in pattern language to specify requirements in an un-ambiguous mode and with precise semantics. The pattern language allows a user interface model to be composed using elements of the pattern language (computer objects in the object oriented programming style) which fully specify the desired user interface. The semantics of the objects in the user interface model have one and only one definition such that user interface model can be validated in a validation process. The validation process eliminates bugs in the final computer program code which is automatically produced from the user interface model. A model (metamodel), an editor tool (computer program) implementing the model for creating specifications of the user interface model, DTD specification, code generators, and other artifacts are depicted and described here for obtaining such user interfaces for different platforms (computers and operating systems) and different programming languages without manual coding of the computer code to implement the user interface. The software obtained is ready to run and it is able to communicate with a business server component using a standardized Application Programmatic Interface (API).

Jose Miguel Barbera-Alonso

Papers

Method and apparatus for automatic generation of information system user interfaces