Patent ID: 7231611
Filing Date: 2007-06-12
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, in a data processing system, for dynamically building a context sensitive composite icon for representing a data object in a graphical user interface, comprising: identifying a base icon data structure for a data object; identifying one or more icon addition data structures based on a context of the data object, wherein one or more context rules are associated with the context of the data object and wherein the context rules are used to identify the one or more icon addition data structures based on the context of the data object; adding the one or more icon addition data structures to the base icon data structure to thereby generate a composite icon data structure comprised of the base icon data structure and the one or more icon addition data structures; graphically representing the composite icon data structure in the graphical user interface on a display of the data processing system; determining if there is a conflict between two or more icon addition data structures of the one or more icon addition data structures; and resolving the conflict based on priorities assigned to the two or more icon addition data structures.