Application creation system

• US 10,133,558 B2
• Filed: 02/24/2016
• Issued: 11/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Aftech Mobile, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Aftech Mobile, Inc.
• Inventors: Farooqi, Arshad
• Primary Examiner(s): Chowdhury, Ziaul A
• Application Number:
  US15/051,704
• Publication Number:
  US 20160274875A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,000 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/34 Graphical or visual programming
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/36 Software reuse

Abstract

A computer implemented method and system for creating a mobile application provides a mobile application development software (MADS) and pre-coded software components (PCSCs) encapsulated in a mobile application creation interface (MACI). The MADS dynamically maps data to be rendered in the mobile application with one or more data sources and launches the MACI. The MADS creates one or more composite software components (CSCs) by combining more than one of distinct software components selected from component sources and/or the PCSCs. The MADS inserts one or more PCSCs and/or CSCs into the MACI. The MADS generates one or more recommendations for adding one or more characteristic objects associated with the mobile application. The MADS creates the mobile application using the inserted PCSCs, the created composite software components, the recommendations, the dynamically mapped data, and/or an adaptively configured application programming interfaces that facilitate backend integration of the mobile application with the user device.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving a selection of a plurality of pre-coded software components, wherein said pre-coded software components are provided by a mobile application development software accessible from a user device via a network, and wherein said pre-coded software components are fully developed mobile applications executable by at least one processor;

creating a new mobile application by launching a mobile application creation interface, wherein said creating said new mobile application in said launched mobile application creation interface further comprises;

inserting one or more of said pre-coded software components into said launched mobile application creation interface;

assembling said inserted one or more of said pre-coded software components;

using, by said mobile application development software, one or more adaptively configured application programming interfaces fora backend integration of said new mobile application with said user device for operating said new mobile application on said user device, wherein said one or more adaptively configured application programming interfaces are configured to implement one or more of a backend integration, a machine to machine or internet of things (IOT) data convergence, a process to machine data interaction for enabling one or more of a gamification, an augmented reality, or a near field communication, or a communication and exchange of data between said new mobile application and said user device;

connecting, by said mobile application development software, to a plurality of backend databases via said network for creating one or more enhanced mobile applications; and

providing, by said mobile application development software, direct access to one or more of web services or said one or more adaptively configured application programming interfaces from a web address; and

transmitting said new mobile application to an application store for publishing and distribution, wherein other users can download said new mobile application by accessing said application store directly from their user devices.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

creating one or more composite software components by combining one or more distinct software components selected from a plurality of component sources and/or one or more of said pre-coded software components; and

inserting one or more of said created composite software components into said launched mobile application creation interface, wherein said inserting said one or more of said pre-coded software components and said one or more of said created software components further comprises dragging and dropping said one or more of said pre-coded software components and said one or more of said created composite software components into said launched mobile application creation interface.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising generation of one or more recommendations for addition of one or more characteristic objects associated with said new mobile application by said mobile application development software based on a real time analysis and dynamic learning of selective data of similar mobile applications developed based on one or more of functionality, an industry, and a category related to said new mobile application, wherein said generation of one or more recommendations further comprises dynamically updating said generated one or more recommendations for said addition of said one or more characteristic objects associated with said new mobile application, by said mobile application development software, based on a selection of one or more supplementary characteristic objects received from said user device.

2. A mobile application development system, comprising:

at least one processor;

a non-transitory computer readable storage medium communicatively coupled to said at least one processor, said non-transitory computer readable storage medium configured to store a mobile application development software that, when executed by said at least one processor, causes said at least one processor to;

provide a selection of a plurality of pre-coded software components on a user device, wherein said mobile application development software is accessible from said user device via a network, and wherein said pre-coded software components are fully developed mobile applications executable by said at least one processor;

create a new mobile application by a mobile application creation module of said mobile application development software by launching a mobile application creation interface, wherein said mobile application creation module is configured to;

insert one or more pre-coded software components into said launched mobile application creation interface, by a component insertion module of said mobile application development software;

assemble said inserted one or more of said pre-coded software components, by a mobile application creation module of said mobile application development software;

adaptively configure, by a backend integration module of said mobile application development software, one or more application programming interfaces for a backend integration of said new mobile application with said user device for operating said new mobile application on said user device, wherein said one or more adaptively configured application programming interfaces are configured to implement one or more of a backend integration, a machine to machine or internet of things (IOT) data convergence, a process to machine data interaction for enabling one or more of a gamification, an augmented reality, or a near field communication, or a communication and exchange of data between said new mobile application and said user device;

connect, by said backend integration module, said new mobile application to a plurality of backend databases via said network for creating one or more enhanced mobile applications; and

provide direct access to one or more of web services or said one or more adaptively configured application programming interfaces from a web address; and

transmit said new mobile application to an application store for publishing and distribution, wherein other users can download said new mobile application by accessing said application store directly from their user devices.

3. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium communicatively coupled to at least one processor, said non-transitory computer readable storage medium configured to store a mobile application development software that, when executed by said at least one processor, causes a mobile application development system to perform a method comprising:

receiving a selection of a plurality of pre-coded software components, wherein said pre-coded software components are provided by the mobile application development software accessible from a user device via a network, and wherein said pre-coded software components are fully developed mobile applications executable by said at least one processor;

creating a new mobile application by launching a mobile application creation interface in said user device, wherein said creation of said new mobile application comprises;

inserting one or more of said pre-coded software components into said launched mobile application creation interface;

assembling said inserted one or more of said pre-coded software components;

using, by said mobile application development software, one or more adaptively configured application programming interfaces fora backend integration of said new mobile application with said user device for operating said new mobile application on said user device;

connecting, by said mobile application development software, to a plurality of backend databases via said network for creating one or more enhanced applications; and

providing, by said mobile application development software, direct access to one or more of web services or said one or more adaptively configured application programming interfaces from a web address; and

providing said new mobile application from said user device to an application store for publishing and distribution, wherein other users can download said new mobile application by accessing said application store directly from their user devices.

4. A computer implemented method, comprising:

allowing developers to submit pre-coded software components to an application library accessible by one or more users to build and deploy new mobile applications;

enabling a backend integration of said new mobile applications with devices belonging to said users, wherein enabling said backend integration comprises;

providing one or more adaptively configured application programming interfaces for operating said new mobile applications on said devices belonging to said users, wherein said one or more adaptively configured application programming interfaces are configured to implement one or more of a backend integration, a machine to machine or internet of things (IOT) data convergence, a process to machine data interaction for enabling one or more of a gamification, an augmented reality, or a near field communication, or a communication and exchange of data between said new mobile applications and user device;

connecting said new mobile applications to a plurality of backend databases via a network for creating one or more enhanced mobile applications; and

providing direct access to one or more of web services or said one or more adaptively configured application programming interfaces from a web address;

providing an application delivery model to said users that supports hyper-personalization to assemble said new mobile applications on the fly rather than downloading and using a pre-built mobile application from an application store; and

enabling said users to hyper-personalize said pre-built mobile application by one or more of modifying said pre-built mobile application or building said new mobile applications as per their own preferences without coding.

5. A method, comprising:

receiving a selection of a plurality of pre-coded software components, wherein said pre-coded software components are provided by a mobile application development software accessible from a user device via a network, and wherein said pre-coded software components are fully developed mobile applications executable by at least one processor;

creating a new mobile application by launching a mobile application creation interface in said user device, wherein said creation of said new mobile application comprises;

inserting one or more of said pre-coded software components into said launched mobile application creation interface;

assembling said inserted one or more of said pre-coded software components;

using, by said mobile application development software, one or more adaptively configured application programming interfaces for a backend integration of said new mobile application with said user device for operating said new mobile application on said user device;

connecting, by said mobile application development software, to a plurality of backend databases via said network for creating one or more enhanced applications; and

providing, by said mobile application development software, direct access to one or more of web services or said one or more adaptively configured application programming interfaces from a web address; and

providing said new mobile application from said user device to an application store for publishing and distribution, wherein other users can download said new mobile application by accessing said application store directly from their user devices.

8. The method of claim 5, further comprising displaying real time data simulations of said new mobile application in said launched mobile application creation interface by said mobile application development software during each stage of said creation of said new mobile application.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein said pre-coded software components comprise social networking software components configured to embed one or more social features with one or more of business processes and follow up action items in said mobile application development software.

10. The method of claim 5, further comprising dynamically populating data sources in said mobile application creation interface and allowing mapping of one or more of said data sources to one or more of said pre-coded software components by said mobile application development software for one of updating said one or more of said pre-coded software components and creating one or more distinct software components.

11. The method of claim 5, further comprising collecting real time usage data by said mobile application development software for tracking and categorizing users of said created new mobile application and providing real time analytics.

12. The method of claim 5, further comprising operating said mobile application development software as one of software as a service or platform as a service accessible by said user device via said network.

13. The method of claim 5, wherein said pre-coded software components are configurable for generating supplementary software components using said mobile application development software and data sources in said mobile application creation interface.

14. The method of claim 5, further comprising creating, by said mobile application development software, said new mobile application of a plurality of types, wherein said plurality of types comprise a native type of said new mobile application, a web type of said new mobile application, and a cross platform type of said new mobile application for any mobile device or wearable.

15. The method of claim 5, further comprising dynamically mapping said data to be rendered in said new mobile application with one or more of a plurality of data sources, by said mobile application development software.

16. The method of claim 5, further comprising receiving inputs from a user, by said mobile application development software, for said publishing of said created new mobile application to said application store, and for providing access to end users to download said created new mobile application on one or more end user devices or wearables.

17. The method of claim 5, wherein said pre-coded software components comprise dynamically mapped data, and wherein multiple layers of pages of data are dynamically created within said pre-coded software components based on mapping defined by a developer of said new mobile application.

18. An application development system, comprising:

at least one processor;

a non-transitory computer readable storage medium communicatively coupled to said at least one processor, said non-transitory computer readable storage medium configured to store a mobile application development software that, when executed by said at least one processor, causes said at least one processor to;

provide a selection of a plurality of pre-coded software components on a user device, wherein said mobile application development software is accessible from said user device via a network, and wherein said pre-coded software components are fully developed mobile applications executable by said at least one processor;

create a new mobile application by a mobile application creation module of said mobile application development software by launching a mobile application creation interface in said user device, wherein said mobile application creation module is configured to;

insert one or more pre-coded software components into said launched mobile application creation interface, by a component insertion module of said mobile application development software;

assemble said inserted one or more of said pre-coded software components, by a mobile application creation module of said mobile application development software;

adaptively configure, by a backend integration module of said mobile application development software, one or more application programming interfaces for a backend integration of said new mobile application with said user device for operating said new mobile application on said user device;

connect, by said backend integration module, said new mobile application to a plurality of backend databases via said network for creating one or more enhanced applications; and

provide direct access to one or more of web services or said one or more adaptively configured application programming interfaces from a web address; and

provide said new mobile application from said user device to an application store for publishing and distribution, wherein other users can download said new mobile application by accessing said application store directly from their user devices.

19. The application development system of claim 18, wherein said mobile application development software further comprises a mapping module configured to dynamically map said data to be rendered in said mobile application development software with one or more of a plurality of data sources.

20. The application development system of claim 18, wherein said pre-coded software components comprise dynamically mapped data, and wherein multiple layers of pages of data are dynamically created within said pre-coded software components based on mapping defined by a developer of said new mobile application.

21. The application development system of claim 18, wherein said mobile application creation module, when executed by said at least one processor, further causes said at least one processor to:

create one or more composite software components by combining one or more distinct software components selected from a plurality of component sources and/or one or more of said pre-coded software components; and

insert one or more of said created composite software components into said launched mobile application creation interface, wherein said insertion of said one or more of said pre-coded software components and said one or more of said created software components further comprises dragging and dropping said one or more of said pre-coded software components and said one or more of said created composite software components into said launched mobile application creation interface.

22. The application development system of claim 18, wherein said mobile application development software is configured to operate as one of software as a service and platform as a service accessible by said user device via said network.

23. The application development system of claim 18, wherein said mobile application development software is configured to create said new mobile application of a plurality of types, wherein said types comprises a native type of said new mobile application, a web type of said new mobile application, and a cross platform type of said new mobile application for any mobile device or wearable.

24. The application development system of claim 18, wherein said mobile application development software further comprises an analytics engine configured to collect real time usage data for tracking and categorizing users of said created new mobile application and providing real time analytics.

25. The application development system of claim 18, wherein said mobile application creation module is configured to display real time data simulations of said new mobile application in said launched mobile application creation interface during each stage of said creation of said new mobile application.

26. The application development system of claim 18, wherein said mobile application development software further comprises a recommendation engine configured to:

generate one or more recommendations for addition of one or more characteristic objects associated with said new mobile application based on a real time analysis and dynamic learning of selective data of similar mobile applications developed based on one or more of functionality, an industry, and a category related to said new mobile application; and

dynamically update said generated one or more recommendations for said addition of said one or more characteristic objects associated with said new mobile application based on a selection of one or more supplementary characteristic objects received from said user device.

27. The application development system of claim 19, wherein said mapping module is further configured to dynamically populate data sources in said mobile application creation interface and map one or more of said data sources to one or more of said pre-coded software components for one or more of updating said one or more pre-coded software components or creating one or more distinct software components based on inputs received from said user device.

28. The application development system of claim 18, wherein said pre-coded software components are configurable for generating supplementary software components using said mobile application development software and data sources in said mobile application creation interface, and wherein said pre-coded software components comprise social networking software components configured to embed one or more social features comprising one or more of business processes or follow up action items into said new mobile application.