Patent ID: 9495080
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for configuring a graphical user interface for displays of a plurality of terminals, comprising: representing a graphical configuration interface comprising a miniaturized representation of a desktop for the graphical user interface; receiving configuration instructions for selecting widgets and for arranging the widgets in the desktop by positioning miniaturized representations of the widgets in the desktop represented in a miniaturized manner, wherein a plurality of navigation part-areas of a navigation area of the graphical user interface are represented, which in each case represent a miniaturized part of the desktop assigned thereto and the widgets arranged thereon; receiving configuration instructions for selective assignment to the terminals of navigation part-areas; and configuring the graphical user interface for representation on a display of each of the plurality of terminals on the basis of the navigation part-areas which are assigned for the relevant terminal, wherein the navigation part-areas are coupled such that in the event of a movement of a widget by a user from one of the navigation part-areas into another of the navigation part-areas, the permissibility of the positioning of the widget in the other of the navigation part-areas is checked, and the movement of the widget is rejected if the permissibility of the positioning is not permitted; said method performed by execution of program instructions by a computing device.