Abstract: Described are a method and system for controlling the operation of personal mobile electronic devices disposed about a user. Each device is adapted to receive command according to a common wireless protocol. A voice signal is generated in response to a voice command spoken by the user. Command data are generated for one of the devices in response to the voice signal. The command data are transmitted through a wireless link to the respective device to control an operation of the device. There is no need for each device to have independent voice recognition capability. Instead, the burden of voice recognition is managed by the wearable command module that communicates with all the controlled devices through wireless links.

Abstract: Described is a configuration module useful for configuring modules of a modular application platform during run-time of the modular application platform. The configuration module produces a graphical dialog that displays a sequence of one or more configuration pages to a user to obtain from the user configuration information for each displayed configuration page. The configuration module defines an abstraction of a configuration page, and other modules of the modular application platform provide implementations of the configuration page abstraction to include at least one configuration page in the graphical dialog produced by the configuration module.

Abstract: An automated software process for acquiring and distributing information regarding design guidelines relevant to developers of a software system. The system supports developer decisions regarding design guidelines for operational characteristics, such as “points of variability” (POV), of a system under development. Operational characteristics of the system under development are “profiled” through answers to questions reflecting the high level system design. The collected answers indicate a category of operational characteristics associated with a design guideline. A developer obtains the design guidelines appropriate for a given operational characteristic when the answers entered by the developer with regard to that operational characteristic are used to determine one of the elements in the category array. Technical leadership establishes a high-level system design, and determines questions leading to design guidelines for categories of operational characteristics of the system.