Patent ID: 8595636
Filing Date: 2013-11-26
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for mapping Graphical User Interface (GUI) widgets, comprising: observing a user action with a widget of a GUI provided by an application loaded on a first computer system, the widget initiating a function within the application when acted upon by a user; collecting information about the widget and about all other widgets in the GUI; associating all of the information with the user action; identifying, based on the information, a corresponding widget of a GUI provided by the application as loaded on a second computer system on which to perform the user action, the corresponding widget having a same function as the widget, the identifying including: performing the user action on the identified widget to initiate the function within the application located on the second computer system, wherein the GUI on the second computer system is configured differently from the GUI on the first computer system and wherein the user actions are represented differently on the GUI of the first computer system than on the GUI of the second computer system.