Patent Document ID: 20130085899
Application ID: 13249054
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A system for generating a user interface comprising uniform control objects for a customer computing device, the system comprising: an electronic catalog storing at least: a plurality of service images, wherein each service image of the plurality of service images is capable of being executed in a hosted computing environment, and wherein each service image comprises at least one software application, a first uniform control object, and a plurality of instructions sets associated with the first uniform control object, wherein each instruction set is also associated with a service image; and a marketplace computing device in communication with the electronic catalog, the marketplace computing device configured to: identify a service image acquired by the customer from the electronic catalog that is associated with the first uniform control object; generate for presentation on a computing device associated with the customer, a user interface including the first uniform control object; and following an interaction with the first control object of the presented user interface, request a computing resource within the hosted computing environment to execute an instruction set associated with the identified service image acquired by the customer.