Declarative language dynamic web platform

• US 10,192,186 B1
• Filed: 10/14/2016
• Issued: 01/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Tajuddin, Brian Jaffery, Boynes, Jeremy, Davis, Melissa Elaine, Days, Adam Lloyd, Kraemer, Erin Harding, Pageau, Felix Joseph Etienne
• Primary Examiner(s): Stevens, Robert
• Application Number:
  US15/294,604
• Time in Patent Office: 837 Days
• Field of Search: 707722
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9038 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06316 Sequencing of tasks or work
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

Described is a dynamic web platform configured to provide content rendered with one or more rendering systems. The rendering systems and the modules making up the rendering modules may interact with one another by way of declarative data. Administrators may configure the platform using the declarative data. The declarative data may express operational parameters, business rules, and so forth and may be modified while the platform is operating. The modules in the rendering system may be loosely bound, allowing for concurrent operations, dynamic changes to what content is to be rendered, and so forth.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory device communicatively coupled to the processor, the memory device storing instructions which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to;

access a request for rendering dynamically generated content;

access a first set of declarative data;

generate a first strategy for rendering the dynamically generated content based on the request and the first set of declarative data;

generate a first set of one or more jobs using the first strategy;

access a second set of declarative data;

generate a second strategy for rendering the dynamically generated content based on the request and the second set of declarative data;

generate a second set of one or more jobs using the second strategy;

send one or more of the first set of one or more jobs or the second set of one or more jobs to an assembler module;

receive results from the assembler module based on processing the one or more of the first set of one or more jobs or the second set of one or more jobs; and

generate, based at least in part on the results, rendered content.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor generates the second set of one or more jobs using the second strategy by modifying the first set of one or more jobs based on the second set of declarative data.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the first set of declarative data comprises one or more expressions indicative of one or more of a first business rule or a first operational parameter of at least a first portion of the system and the second set of declarative data comprises one or more expressions indicative of one or more of a second business rule or a second operational parameter of at least a second portion of the system.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the assembler module executes instructions to:

initiate execution of the first set of one or more jobs and the second set of one or more jobs, wherein at least a portion of the first set of one or more jobs and the second set of one or more jobs are executed concurrently for at least a portion of time;

acquire information associated with the execution of the first set of one or more jobs and the second set of one or more jobs;

generate assembler feedback based at least in part on the acquired information; and

send the assembler feedback to the processor.

5. The system of claim 1 further comprising:

a view module coupled to the assembler module to;

receive one or more of the first set of one or more jobs and the second set of one or more jobs;

generate a user interface responsive to the one or more of the first set of one or more jobs and the second set of one or more jobs; and

generate results based on the user interface.

6. The system of claim 1 further comprising:

a data module coupled to the assembler module to;

receive one or more of the first set of one or more jobs and the second set of one or more jobs;

perform one or more data operations responsive to the one or more of the first set of one or more jobs and the second set of one or more jobs; and

generate results based on the one or more data operations.

7. A computer-implemented method for dynamically rendering content, the computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving a request for content from a requestor;

accessing a first set of declarative data including one or more expressions configured to define processing of the request for the content;

processing the request based at least in part on the first set of declarative data to generate rendered content;

based at least in part on the processing, receiving a second set of declarative data;

concurrently processing the first set of declarative data and the second set of declarative data to generate results;

generating, based at least in part on the results, the rendered content; and

sending the rendered content to the requestor.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein the concurrently processing the first set of declarative data and the second set of declarative data further comprises processing the first set of declarative data using a first strategy for dynamically rendering content based on the request and the first set of declarative data and processing the second set of declarative data using a second strategy for dynamically rendering content based on the request and the second set of declarative data.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein the concurrently processing the first set of declarative data and the second set of declarative data further comprises concurrently processing the first set of declarative data and the second set of declarative data using an assembler module.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein the accessing the first set of declarative data comprises:

sending an inquiry to a device; and

receiving the first set of declarative data from the device.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein one or more of the first set of declarative data and the second set of declarative data comprise one or more expressions configured to recursively generate a plurality of inquiries configured to retrieve, from one or more systems, additional declarative data.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, the processing the request comprising generating a view configured to generate a user interface.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, the processing the request comprising one or more of:

retrieving data, writing data, modifying data, or transforming data.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, the processing the request comprising one or more of:

logging data, or generating a metric.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein the method is executed as a single thread on a processing system.

16. A system comprising:

a first device comprising;

a first communication interface;

a first memory storing first computer-executable instructions; and

a first processor configured to couple to the first communication interface, access the first memory, and execute the first computer-executable instructions to;

receive a request for rendered content;

access first declarative data including one or more expressions configured to define processing of the request for rendered content;

based on the request for rendered content and the first declarative data, generate a first set of one or more jobs;

send the first set of one or more jobs for processing to generate a first set of one or more results;

access second declarative data received from other devices in the system;

based on the request for rendered content, the first declarative data, and the second declarative data, generate one or more of a modified first set of one or more jobs and a second set of one or more jobs;

send the one or more of a modified first set of one or more jobs and the second set of one or more jobs for processing to generate a second set of one or more results;

processing one or more of the modified first set of one or more jobs and the second set of one or more jobs concurrently using the first declarative data to produce the second set of one or more results; and

generate first output of rendered content based on the second set of one or more results.

17. The system of claim 16, the first computer-executable instructions further configured to:

generate a plurality of inquiries for third declarative data;

send the plurality of inquiries to the other devices in the system; and

receive, from at least a portion of the other devices in the system, third declarative data responsive to the inquiries.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the first set of one or more jobs generate one or more scripts executed on a second device.

19. The system of claim 16, comprising:

a second device comprising;

one or more user input devices;

one or more user output devices;

a second communication interface configured to communicate with the first communication interface;

a second memory storing second computer-executable instructions; and

a second processor configured to couple to the one or more user input devices, the one or more user output devices, the second communication interface, access the second memory, and execute the second computer-executable instructions to;

generate the request for rendered content;

send the request for rendered content to the first device;

access third declarative data;

based on the request for rendered content and the third declarative data, generate a third set of one or more jobs configured to generate a third set of one or more results;

process the third set of one or more jobs;

generate second output based on the third set of one or more results;

receive the first output from the first device; and

provide rendered content comprising the first output and the second output.

20. The system of claim 19, the second computer-executable instructions further configured to send at least a portion of the third set of one or more jobs to the first device.