Patent ID: 9524273
Filing Date: 2016-12-20
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer implemented method implemented with a processor for generating a page layout, comprising: providing a layout canvas to configure a Web page layout; selecting a drop zone object from a set of widgets, wherein the drop zone object is a widget configured as a software application and permits one or more widgets of the set of widgets to be inserted in an area defined by the drop zone object; instantiating an instance of the drop zone object for grouping an instance of at least one widget of the set of widgets within the instance of the drop zone object within the Web page layout, wherein generating a layout object corresponding to the Web page layout at least by traversing a hierarchical tree structure comprising a plurality of nodes representing at least the instance and the another instance of the same drop zone object in a parent-child relation and by accessing the plurality of nodes to retrieve respective functional contents for the plurality of nodes in the hierarchical tree structure.