Presentation formats for rendering content associated with interactable components

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2026057166-A1
Application number	US-202418811766-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Aug 22, 2024
Priority date	Aug 22, 2024
Publication date	Feb 26, 2026
Grant date	—

Abstract

Approaches for generating presentation formats for rendering content associated with interactable components are described. According to one example, an interactable component may be selected and positioned within a portion of a user interface. The interactable component may be configured, based on configuration settings, to establish communication with a data source and to render data retrieved from the data source as visual information. With the interactable component configured, a presentation format may be generated.

First claim

We claim:

1 . A system comprising:
a processor; and a machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions executable by the processor to:
enable selection, through user input, of an interactable component, wherein the interactable component is programmable and is to provide visual information on a user interface;
position the selected interactable component within a portion of the user interface, wherein one of shape and relative position of the interactable component is changeable with respect to position of a plurality of other elements in the user interface;
configure, based on configuration settings received through another user input, the interactable component, wherein the interactable component when configured is to:
establish a communication channel with a data source to retrieve data;
render the data, as per the configuration settings, as the visual information; and

generate a presentation format comprising content, wherein the content is to further comprise the visual information provided by the interactable component based on the configuration settings, and the plurality of other elements.

2 . The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the instructions are executable to further:
determine a displayable area of the user interface rendering the presentation format, wherein the displayable area is to render visual information provided by the interactable component; detect any input for changing a dimension of the displayable area; and responsive to the change in the dimension, adjust the position of at least the interactable component with respect to altered displayable area and the other plurality of elements.

3 . The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the interactable component is a container element defining a layout of content to be rendered, image field, chart-based element, text-based input field, or combinations thereof.

4 . The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the configuration settings are retrieved from a set of predefined configuration settings.

5 . The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the portion of the user interface within which the interactable component is positioned corresponds to a distinct section within the presentation format.

6 . The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the instructions are executable to cause the interactable component to provide a preview of the visual information based on a subset of data retrieved from the data source.

7 . The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the instructions are executable to generate further instructions to generate a descriptive code defining a printable format corresponding to the presentation format.

8 . The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the instructions are executable to disable any change in the visual information being rendered by the interactable component on detection of an event or in response to a user input.

9 . The system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the presentation format is one of a web-page, and a text-based file.

10 . A method comprising:
receiving a request for rendering content of a presentation format, wherein the content comprises visual information to be provided by a programmable interactable component implemented within the presentation format; parsing the presentation format to detect relative position of the interactable component and other plurality of components in the presentation format; retrieving data corresponding to the interactable component; deriving a segmented rendering of visual information corresponding to the retrieved data; and generating a descriptive code defining a printable format corresponding to the presentation format comprising the segmented rendering of the visual information.

11 . The method as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the descriptive code corresponds to code of a device independent printable file format.

12 . The method as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the descriptive code is processed to provide a preview of the rendered content of the presentation format.

13 . The method as claimed in claim 10 , the method comprising:
determining a displayable area of a user interface rendering the presentation format, wherein the displayable area is to render visual information provided by the interactable component; detecting any input for changing a dimension of the displayable area; and responsive to the change in the dimension, deriving the segmented rendering of the visual information.

14 . The method as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the interactable component is a container element defining a layout of content to be rendered, image field, chart-based element, text-based input field, or combinations thereof.

15 . The method as claimed in claim 10 , wherein a portion of a user interface within which the interactable component is positioned corresponds to a distinct section within the presentation format.

16 . The method as claimed in claim 10 , wherein the deriving the segmented rendering comprises disabling any subsequent change in the visual information of the interactable component.

17 . A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions, the instructions being executable by a processing resource of a system, to:
cause selection, in response to user input, of an interactable component, wherein the interactable component is programmable and is to provide visual information; position the selected interactable component within a portion of a user interface, wherein one of shape and relative position of the interactable component is changeable with respect to position of an adjacent element; configure, based on configuration settings received through another user input, the interactable component, wherein the interactable component when configured is to:
establish a communication channel with a data source to retrieve data;
render the data, as per the configuration settings, as the visual information; and
generate a presentation format comprising content, wherein the content is to further comprise the visual information provided by the interactable component and other plurality of elements, based on the configuration settings.

18 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium as claimed in claim 17 , wherein the interactable component is a container element defining a layout of content to be rendered, image field, chart-based element, text-based input field, or combinations thereof.

19 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium as claimed in claim 17 , wherein the configuration settings are retrieved from a set of predefined configuration settings.

20 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium as claimed in claim 17 , wherein the portion of the user interface within which the interactable component is positioned corresponds to a distinct section within the presentation format.

Assignees

• Honeywell Int Inc

Inventors

• Sneed Timothy
• Singh Ankit
• Hiremath Abhishek
• Ramasubrahmanyan Arun

Classifications

• G06F3/04842

  Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements (G06F3/0482 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F3/0481

  based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance · CPC title

• G06F3/04845

  for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour · CPC title

• G06F40/106

  Display of layout of documents; Previewing · CPC title

• G06F40/103 Primary

  Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents (automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191) · CPC title