Patent ID: 7739620

Claim:
A computer-implemented method in which at least one computer system executes software code retrieved from storage to perform operations of: producing a menu to include a set of selectable menu elements; configuring a first version of a software application to enable display of the menu and the set of selectable menu elements; updating the menu to include a given menu element having an alternate styling than a common styling associated with each of the selectable menu elements in the set, the alternate styling indicating that the given menu element represents a new feature in a second version of the software application; and configuring the second version of the software application to enable display of the updated menu, the second version of the software application enabling execution of the new feature based on selection of the given menu element having the alternate styling; wherein the second version of the software application is a new software product release with respect to the first version of the software application; wherein updating the menu includes: generating the updated menu to include the set of selectable menu elements and the given menu element, the given menu element having a different styling than the common styling associated with each of the selectable menu elements in the set; and the different styling of the given menu element providing a visual indication that the new feature is newly available for selection and execution in the second version of the software application and that the new feature was unavailable for selection and execution in the first version of the software application; wherein the new software product release is from a product vendor that produces the software application; and wherein configuring the second version of the software application to enable display of the updated menu comprises configuring the second version of the software application to display the updated menu as a pull-down menu in which a combination of the selectable menu elements in the set and the given menu element are displayed in the pull-down menu and the given menu element is displayed in an alternate style differing from other pull-down menu elements in the pull-down menu.