COMPOSITION-BASED APPLICATION USER INTERFACE FRAMEWORK

摘要

A method and computer readable device for enabling a plurality of telematics services providers to deliver multiple telematics applications to a telematics user device simultaneously by enabling a user interface of each telematics applications to be composed onto a single screen of said telematics device. The method comprises: receiving a content file and a layout file associated with each of the plurality of telematics service by a content push agent, the content file comprising support files including a text file, a graphical file and/or a sound file or the content file comprises a message document including configuration information as to the integration of the support files; storing the support files in a memory cache device by a content manager for storing local copies of the support files for frequent request by a plurality of extendible set of viewers; routing the message document to a viewer compositor which acts as a communication bus between the plurality of extendible set of viewers based upon the message document; and rendering the said plurality of extendible set of viewers simultaneously onto the single screen of the telematics device by a layout manager based upon the layout file.