Generation of a device application

• US 10,001,976 B2
• Filed: 12/28/2015
• Issued: 06/19/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Sarkar, Jaideep, Colle, Olivier, Balaram, Prithvi Raj
• Primary Examiner(s): Wu, Daxin
• Application Number:
  US14/981,058
• Publication Number:
  US 20170185383A1
• Time in Patent Office: 904 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/30 Creation or generation of source code
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/34 Graphical or visual programming
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/433 Dependency analysis; Data or control flow analysis

Abstract

Examples of the disclosure enable the recalculation of device chaining in a user interface. In some examples, a first element representing a first hardware device is received at a design surface of a computing device user interface. A second element representing a second hardware device is received at the design surface. A selection of an output associated with the first element is received. A function that binds a property of the second element to a property of the output associated with the first element is automatically generated. Aspects of the disclosure enable the automatically generated function to be displayed at the design surface.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a first element representing a first hardware device in a network via user interaction at a design surface of a computing device;

receiving a second element representing a second hardware device in the network via the user interaction at the design surface;

receiving a selection of an output associated with the first element;

automatically generating an expression that binds a property of the second element to a property of the output associated with the first element, chaining the first element and the second element in a declarative transformation device chain;

and

generating a device program using the declarative transformation device chain of the automatically generated expression, including by;

identifying a first device protocol associated with the first hardware device that is different from a second device protocol associated with the second hardware device;

deserializing the first device protocol and the second device protocol;

generating a runtime entity configured to communicate via the first device protocol and the second device protocol using the deserialized first device protocol and the deserialized second device protocol; and

compiling the automatically generated expression with the generated runtime entity.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

deploying the generated device program to at least one of a cloud, the first hardware device, the second hardware device, or another hardware device in the network.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the generated device program is headless code.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining device capabilities of the first hardware device corresponding to the first element; and

providing the device capabilities of the first hardware device as a list of outputs associated with the first element at a design surface.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining device capabilities of the second hardware device corresponding to the second element; and

providing the device capabilities of the second hardware device as a list of outputs associated with the second element at a design surface.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

discovering the first hardware device from a discovery service; and

providing the first element representing the first hardware device at a design surface as a selectable element.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the first element and the second element further comprises:

detecting user gestures at a design surface or directed to the first element and the second element at the design surface.

8. One or more computer storage media, having computer-executable instructions for generating an executable program, which on execution by a computer cause the computer to perform operations, comprising:

receiving a source component representing a source device in a network via user interaction at a user interface;

receiving a destination component representing a destination device in the network via the user interaction at the user interface;

receiving a selection of an output from the source device that is an input to the destination device;

automatically generating a function that binds a property of the destination device to a property of the output from the source device, chaining the property of the destination device and the property of the output from the source device in a declarative transformation device chain; and

generating the executable program using the declarative transformation device chain of the automatically generated function, including by;

identifying a first protocol associated with the source device that is different from a second device protocol associated with the destination device;

deserializing the first protocol and the second protocol;

generating a runtime entity configured to communicate via the first protocol and the second protocol using the deserialized first protocol and the deserialized second protocol; and

compiling the automatically generated function with the generated runtime entity.

9. The one or more computer storage media of claim 8, wherein device capabilities of the source device are displayed as properties of the source component at a user interface, and wherein device capabilities of the destination device are displayed as properties of the destination component at the user interface.

10. The one or more computer storage media of claim 8, further comprising:

analyzing the automatically generated function for dependencies between the source device and the destination device; and

generating a dependency graph based on the analysis of the automatically generated function.

11. The one or more computer storage media of claim 10, further comprising:

generating the executable program using the dependency graph.

12. The one or more computer storage media of claim 8, further comprising:

deploying the generated executable program to at least one of a cloud, the source device, the destination device, or another hardware device.

13. The one or more computer storage media of claim 8, further comprising:

discovering the source device from a discovery service.

14. The one or more computer storage media of claim 8, wherein the source component is a node executing the automatically generated function.

15. The one or more computer storage media of claim 8, wherein the generated executable program is headless code.

16. A system for generating an executable program, the system comprising:

a memory storing a developer application;

a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and configured to execute the developer application to;

receive a first element representing a first hardware device in a network via user interaction at a design surface;

receive a second element representing a second hardware device in the network via the user interaction at the design surface;

automatically generate an expression that binds a property of the second element to a property of the output associated with the first element, chaining the first element and the second element in a declarative transformation device chain;

generate the executable program using the declarative transformation device chain of the automatically generated expression, including by;

identifying a first device protocol associated with the first hardware device that is different from a second device protocol associated with the second hardware device;

deserializing the first device protocol and the second device protocol;

generating a runtime entity configured to communicate via the first device protocol and the second device protocol using the deserialized first device protocol and the deserialized second device protocol; and

compiling the automatically generated expression with the generated runtime entity.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the processor further executes the developer application to:

discover one or more hardware nodes in the network; and

obtain information on device capabilities and data transport types associated with the discovered hardware nodes.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the processor further executes the developer application to:

deploy the generated executable program to at least one of a cloud, the first hardware device, the second hardware device, or another hardware device in the network.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the processor further executes the developer application to:

obtain device capabilities of the first hardware device and the second hardware device; and

provide the device capabilities of the first hardware device as a list of outputs associated with the first element and the device capabilities of the second hardware device as a list of outputs associated with the second element at a user interface.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein the processor further executes the developer application to:

analyze the automatically generated expression for dependencies between the first hardware device and the second hardware device; and

generate a dependency graph based on the analysis of the automatically generated expression.