Patent ID: 7257776

Claim:
A method of adapting graphic output of generic applications to an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) hardware display, comprising: establishing a tiered sizing schema that defines multiple size tiers for display objects to be displayed on different OEM hardware displays; establishing readability constraints for sizes of text objects to be displayed on the different OEM hardware displays; specifying a minimum number of character spaces to be maintained in a text box associated with an individual text object; embedding the tiered sizing schema the readability constraints and the minimum number of character spaces in an OEM software that receives the graphic output from the generic application; receiving display object instances, text object instances, and a placement of the display object instances and the text object instances from a generic application; adapting sizes of the display object instances via the OEM software according to the tiered sizing schema to fit a size of one of the OEM hardware displays; and adapting sizes of the text object instances via the OEM software according to the readability constraints to fit a size of the OEM hardware display while maintaining the minimum number of character spaces in the text box.