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Abstract

Interface description documents define the appearance and behavior of a user interface (132) toward the user, and feature description documents define interaction of the interface with the interfaced-to application, both in conformity with a user-interface object model (310). Connector and layout object plug-ins (126, 128) define connector and layout objects for rendering elements of feature and interface description documents, respectively; of one or more interfaces. An interactor (130), independent of any interface or interface type, the application, and the user device (100,200), generates user interfaces from the stored information. The interactor parses the description documents of an interface into elements and reflects them in the object model to form an instance representing the interface, downloads the objects corresponding to the reflected elements registers their interfaces in the object model instance to make them accessible by the elements, and invokes execution of each downloaded object with the corresponding element to render the element.

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