Patent ID: 9507503
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method of providing a dashboard layer for a user device, the method comprising: storing at a remote server computer configuration information for a dashboard layer that specifies relative positions of a plurality of different widgets in the dashboard layer on a first device when the dashboard layer was last deactivated on the first device, and wherein: while the dashboard layer is active on the first device, the dashboard layer is displayed over an operating system user interface of the first device that is inactivated by the presence of the dashboard layer, wherein, while the dashboard layer is active on the first device, events received by the first device for the dashboard layer are routed to widgets in the dashboard layer through a process that manages the dashboard layer on the first device instead of being routed to the operating system user interface; and when the dashboard layer is deactivated on the first device, the operating system user interface of the first device is reactivated; receiving, at the remote server computer, a request from a second device to access the dashboard layer associated with the first device; responsive to receiving the request, accessing at the remote server computer the stored configuration information for the dashboard layer; generating, at the remote server computer, a web page comprising the dashboard layer associated with the first device based on the stored configuration information that specifies relative positions of the plurality of different widgets in the dashboard layer on the first device; and providing the web page from the remote server computer to the second device for display on the second device, wherein displaying the web page on the second device causes the plurality of widgets to be displayed on the second device in the same relative position as the plurality of widgets were displayed on the first device when the dashboard layer was last deactivated on the first device.