Content management and transformation system for digital content

• US 10,237,371 B2
• Filed: 05/15/2017
• Issued: 03/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Intellectual Ventures II LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Intellectual Ventures II LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Judd, David T., Brewster, Jason A., Melia, P. Michael, Lilly, David J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Angela
• Application Number:
  US15/595,902
• Publication Number:
  US 20170289312A1
• Time in Patent Office: 673 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/88 Mark-up to mark-up conversion conversion for visualization in web browsing G06F16/9577
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• 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: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/14 Tree-structured documents parsing G06F40/205; validation G06F40/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/197 Version control for software G06F8/71
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display

Abstract

A transformation engine that enables content and information to be transformed from one format, a source format, to a format that is compatible with the requesting device, a destination format. Advantageously, various device types can access and share content via a network without concern as to the original format of the content. When a client device provides a request for content, the transformation engine identifies delivery characteristics of the client device, and identifies a source for the requested content. The transformation engine then transforms the source formatted content into a format identified through a best fit analysis of the delivery characteristics of the device.

Claims

1. A method implemented by a client device, the method comprising:

receiving, by the client device, an actuation of a user interface provided on the client device, wherein the client device is associated with one or more client variables defining an environment of the client device;

transmitting, from the client device to a server, an indication of the actuation; and

receiving, by the client device from the server, a packaged updated version of the user interface, wherein the packaged updated version of the user interface is based, at least in part, on both (1) an environment of the client device that is determined, at least in part, using the transmitted indication of the actuation as processed at the server by an invoked application component, and (2) interim data representing results of the invoked application component.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting, from the client device to the server, a content request to invoke the application component.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the user interface includes at least one of a custom application interface, a browser-based interface, or a browser-like application interface.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising rendering the updated version of the user interface on the client device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more client variables describe device display specifics of the client device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the client device provides the one or more client variables via an HTTP request header.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting, from the client device to the server, an exit request causing the server to save a current state of the invoked application component.

8. The method of claim 4, wherein the updated version of the user interface is configured to receive one or more interactions that are handled locally by the client device.

9. The method of claim 4, wherein the updated version of the user interface is configured to receive one or more interactions that are handled through further communications with the server.

10. A computer-readable storage device storing instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform actions comprising:

receiving an actuation of a user interface provided on the computing device, wherein the computing device is associated with an environment defined by one or more characteristics;

transmitting to a server, an indication of the actuation; and

receiving a packaged updated version of the user interface, wherein the packaged updated version of the user interface is based, at least in part, on both (1) the one or more characteristics determined, at least in part, using the transmitted indication of the actuation as processed at the server by an invoked application, and (2) interim data representing results of the invoked application.

11. The computer-readable storage device of claim 10, wherein the actions further comprise:

receiving a second actuation of the user interface; and

processing the second actuation locally by the computing device.

12. The computer-readable storage device of claim 10, wherein the actions further comprise transmitting to the server a content request to invoke the application.

13. The computer-readable storage device of claim 10, wherein the one or more characteristics include at least one of:

hardware characteristics of the computing device;

information identifying a network connection that communicatively couples the server to the computing device;

compression or decompression attributes of the computing device;

data that describes a user of the computing device;

or

any combination thereof.

14. The computer-readable storage device of claim 10, wherein a state of the invoked application is maintained by the server.

15. The computer-readable storage device of claim 14, wherein the actions further comprise:

suspending interactions with the invoked application; and

causing resuming of interactions with the invoked application in accordance with the state of the invoked application that is maintained by the server.

16. The computer-readable storage device of claim 15, wherein causing resuming of interactions with the invoked application comprises causing transmission of a packaged user interface from the server to a second computing device.

17. A computing device comprising one or more processors and memory, the memory storing contents that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing device to:

receive an actuation of a user interface provided on the computing device, wherein the computing device is associated with one or more characteristics;

transmit to a server, an indication of the actuation; and

receive a packaged updated version of the user interface, wherein the packaged updated version of the user interface is based, at least in part, on both (1) the one or more characteristics determined, at least in part, using the transmitted indication of the actuation as processed at the server by an invoked application, and (2) interim data representing results of the invoked application.

18. The computing device of claim 17, wherein the contents further cause the computing device to render the updated version of the user interface without executing compiled code corresponding to the invoked application.

19. The computing device of claim 17, wherein the updated version of the user interface is configured to receive a first interaction that is handled locally by the computing device;

and

wherein the updated version of the user interface is configured to receive a second interaction that is handled through further communications with the server.

20. The computing device of claim 17, wherein the user interface is provided within a browser at the computing device.