Patent ID: 7469380
Filing Date: 2008-12-23
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of generating and displaying dynamic document previews, comprising: providing a suite of applications, wherein each application of the suite of applications is different, wherein replaceable attributes of each application are identified by at least one tag that indicates that the attributes are replaceable; displaying a document preview associated with a first document of one of the applications of the suite of applications, wherein the first document is renderable according to the application of the suite of applications, wherein the application includes dynamically updatable individual documents based on the replaceable attributes identified by the at least one tag, wherein each document preview is associated with a different design theme and includes common content; receiving a selection of a design for application to the document preview associated with the first document; applying the selected design to the suite of applications, wherein applying the selected design to the suite of applications includes identifying the at least one tag that indicates that the attributes are replaceable and replacing the attributes indicated by the tag with at least one attribute of the selected design; automatically generating a bitmap dynamic document preview having the replaceable attributes replaced by the at least one attribute of the selected design, wherein automatically generating the bitmap dynamic document preview includes reducing the complexity of the bitmap dynamic document preview to optimize displaying resources by removing attributes of the application that are not implicated by the display of the bitmap dynamic document preview; displaying the automatically generated bitmap dynamic document preview, wherein the bitmap dynamic document preview is rendered in a bitmap image format having less fidelity than the first document being renderable according to the application of the suite of applications; displaying a second document preview associated with a second document of one of the applications of the suite of applications wherein the application includes dynamically updatable individual documents; and automatically propagating the selected design to the second document preview of the second document to generate a second bitmap dynamic document preview.