Patent ID: 7714875
Filing Date: 2010-05-11
Classification: G06F,G09G

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of displaying information on a computer system having a display capability and one or more processors, the method comprising: using one or more processors on a computer system to receive a request from an application program executing on the one or more processors for a display attribute for an object to be displayed on a display of the computer system, the request including an object identifier that corresponds to the object to be displayed; accessing, by the one or more processors, a display capability flag stored in a memory of the computer system indicating the type of display of the computer system; obtaining via a table stored in the memory of the computer system by the one or more processors, the display attribute for the object to be displayed using the display capability flag and the object identifier the table corresponding a plurality of display attribute lists to a plurality of object identifiers, wherein each list of the plurality of display attribute lists corresponds to a particular display capability flag; and delivering the display attribute to the application program so that the one or more processors render the object to be displayed on the display of the computer system according to the display attribute.