ServiceNow, Inc.
HIERARCHICAL, SYSTEM-INDEPENDENT INTERFACE LAYOUT DEFINITIONS FOR NATIVE MOBILE APPLICATIONS

Abstract:

A wireless communication device may include a communication interface, a screen configured to display a graphical user interface (GUI) of a native application, a processor, and memory containing instructions of the native application that, when executed by the processor, cause the wireless communication device to perform operations including: generating a request that refers to data accessible by way of a server device; transmitting the request to the server device; receiving the data from the server device, wherein the data includes: (i) content for display by the native application, and (ii) a recursively-defined, cell-based arrangement of the content, with identifiers mapping units of the content to cells within the arrangement; generating a GUI that represents the content spatially organized according to the arrangement and the mapping; and displaying the GUI.