Patent ID: 8756614

Claim:
A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving, at an app management system, a first input that identifies a first app feature and that indicates that the first app feature is to depend on a dynamic pointer; updating a central registry to indicate that the first app feature depends on the dynamic pointer; receiving, at the app management system, a second input that indicates that the dynamic pointer is to be set to point to a second app feature; updating the central registry to indicate that the dynamic pointer points to the second app feature; detecting an event indicating that the pointing of the dynamic pointer or that a value of the second app feature has changed; wherein the second app feature comprises a query, and wherein the detecting of the event indicating that the pointing of the dynamic pointer or that the value of the second app feature has changed comprises: detecting that a user has selected or identified the value of the second app feature; causing, in response to the event detection, a value of the first app feature to change.