Patent ID: 11861379
Assignee: AVEVA SOFTWARE, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. A hierarchical display system for an automated graphical user interface (GUI) configuration for an industrial software application comprising:
one or more computers comprising one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer readable media, the one or more non-transitory computer readable media comprising instructions configured and arranged to cause the one or more computers to:
generate, by the one or more processors, a plurality of GUIs in an industrial software application runtime environment, at least one of the plurality of GUIs comprising a navigational model comprising a hierarchy of navigational items;
determine, by the one or more processors, a number of GUIs specified by a GUI profile associated with a current navigational item;
determine, by the one or more processors, a layout for each of the number of GUIs specified by the GUI profile;
display, by the one or more processors, the layout in each of the number of GUIs specified by the GUI profile;
determine, by the one or more processors, if the number of GUIs specified by the GUI profile is less than a number of available GUIs;
query, by the one or more processors, one or more levels of the hierarchy of navigational items to determine if a GUI profile associated with a respective level of the one or more levels has a specified layout for one or more remaining GUIs;
apply, by the one or more processors, the specified layout from the respective level to one or more of the one or more remaining GUIs.