Patent ID: 7774701
Filing Date: 2010-08-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of generating, as part of a process of configuring a customized portal page for a user, a visual display of an index of user interface (UI) frames available for configuring in the portal page for the user, the method comprising: receiving, in a computer system, user input to generate a categorized visual display of available UI frames and that identifies a selected category type for the available UI frames, the computer system having defined therein several different preconfigured UI frames that are each available for the portal page being configured for the user, each of the preconfigured UI frames providing a frame for information display and program operation under the control of a specified one of multiple different executable software packages, wherein each of the executable software packages has a different software package name; reading, from computer storage memory in the computer system, the package names for the corresponding executable software packages that control the information display and program operation for the available UI frames, and for each of the available UI frames, parsing the read name for the corresponding executable software package that controls the information display and program operation of the UI frame, to classify the available UI frame into a specific one category of the selected category type; and displaying, on a display device, an index page of the available UI frames organized by category, wherein the displayed index page includes i) multiple different displayed category names corresponding to categories of the selected category type, and ii) a displayed name for each of the classified available UI frames, wherein each of the displayed names is displayed on the displayed index page in association with the category name corresponding to the category into which the UI frame was classified.