Mobilizing an existing web application

• US 10,216,856 B2
• Filed: 01/26/2015
• Issued: 02/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Kaplinger, Todd E., Moore, Victor S., Nusbickel, Wendi L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Puente, Emerson C
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kretzmer, Erika
• Application Number:
  US14/604,806
• Publication Number:
  US 20150378579A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,492 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3442 for planning or managing the needed capacity
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

In an approach for adjusting a web application to comply with user interface capabilities of a device type, a processor monitors usage patterns of a web application by a user, including monitoring device type. The processor monitors input and output network communication data of a resource of a web application. The processor converts the monitored network data to Extensible Markup Language Schema (XSD), and updates documentation of the resource of the web application with the converted data. The processor further receives user interface capabilities of a device type and analyzes a web application for compatibility with the user interface capabilities of the device type. Based on the compatibility analysis, at least one user interface element is be modified within presentation of the web application on the device type. A processor generates a version of the web application compatible with the user interface capabilities of the device type.

Claims

1. A method for adjusting a web application to comply with user interface capabilities of a device type, the method comprising:

monitoring, by one or more processors, usage patterns of a web application by a user utilizing internal and external analytics techniques, wherein;

the usage patterns comprise device type and an alternate first usage pattern, and

the monitoring further comprises externally monitoring, using a Java application programming interface for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS)/servlet filter, usage of a representational state transfer (REST) resource of the web application, including input network communication data and output network communication data of the REST resource of the web application;

converting, by one or more processors, a set of data from the monitored input network communication data and the monitored output network communication data of the REST resource to Extensible Markup Language Schema (XSD);

updating, by one or more processors, documentation of the REST resource of the web application with the converted set of data;

receiving, by one or more processors, user interface capabilities of the device type;

retrieving, by one or more processors, a set of one or more rules associated with the device type including a first rule to adjust the at least one user interface element based on a corresponding first usage pattern identified during a specified time of access of the web application, wherein the specified time is a time of day;

analyzing, by one or more processors, the web application for compatibility with the user interface capabilities of the device type based on, at least, the set of one or more rules;

analyzing, by one or more processors, the web application for the corresponding first usage pattern during the specified time of access of the web application corresponding to the first rule;

determining, by one or more processors, at least one user interface element to be modified within presentation of the web application on the device type based on the analyzed compatibility of the web application with the user interface capabilities of the device type and the analyzed corresponding first usage pattern during the specified time of access of the web application corresponding to the first rule, wherein;

the at least one user interface element to be modified comprises a list including a plurality of items, and

the at least one user interface element to be modified within presentation of the web application on the device type comprises organizing the plurality of items of the list based on hit frequency of each of the plurality of items over a period of time, and adjusting a number of items to display within the list; and

generating, by one or more processors, a version of the web application compatible with the user interface capabilities of the device type that includes the modified at least one user interface element.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying, by one or more processors, a pattern in the REST resource of the web application, wherein the identified pattern in the REST resource corresponds to a first pattern, wherein the first pattern is a collection pattern that corresponds to a predetermined pattern that is associated with a template;

retrieving, by one or more processors, the template corresponding to the identified pattern in the REST resource; and

populating, by one or more processors, the template with data from the REST resource.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein analyzing a web application for compatibility with the user interface capabilities of the device type comprises:

identifying, by one or more processors, at least one aspect of the web application that is incompatible with the device type.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein generating a version of the web application compatible with the user interface capabilities of the device type comprises:

generating, by one or more processors, a native application, wherein the native application utilizes prefetching to retrieve data from the web application based on usage data associated with a user of the native application.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein generating a version of the web application compatible with the user interface capabilities of the device type comprises:

generating, by one or more processors, a version of the web application compatible with the user interface capabilities of the device type comprising the at least one user interface element, as modified, within presentation of the web application on the device type.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the internal analytics techniques comprise user idle time, cursor location, and mouse clicks.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the external analytics techniques comprise HyperText Markup Language (HTML) pages loaded, data accessed, widgets used, types of devices used, and presence of user interface artifacts within the web application.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the monitored input data is JavaScript Object Notation (JSON); and

the monitored output data is JSON.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one user interface element to be modified within the presentation of the web application on the device type comprises a modification to a size of the at least one user interface element to be modified.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the alternate first usage pattern comprises a runtime pattern.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one user interface element to be modified within presentation of the web application on the device type further comprises:

adjusting a level of detail to display with each item of the plurality of items and placing at least one item of the plurality of items at another location within the web application, wherein the another location is external to the list.