Stack handling using multiple primary user interfaces

• US 10,402,038 B2
• Filed: 01/07/2016
• Issued: 09/03/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hand Held Products Incorporated (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hand Held Products Incorporated (Honeywell International Inc.)
• Inventors: Pike, Jeffrey, Zabel, Shawn, Bender, Brian, Doubleday, Dennis, Murawski, Mark David
• Primary Examiner(s): Teets, Bradley A
• Application Number:
  US14/989,830
• Publication Number:
  US 20160203021A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,335 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

Generally discussed herein are techniques, software, apparatuses, and systems configured for managing a navigation stack of an application including multiple primary user interfaces (UIs). In one or more embodiments, a method can include providing data to multiple primary UIs that causes each of the multiple primary UIs to present a view of a plurality of views of an application state of the software application, receiving data indicating the application state of the application has changed, and pushing a workflow activity of the application onto a navigation stack, wherein each workflow activity includes data corresponding to a configuration of a view model module and a list of views associated with the configuration, the view model module provides the data that causes the plurality of views to be presented on the multiple primary UIs in response to the configuration being loaded on in the view model module.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a software application including a view model module communicatively coupled to multiple primary user interfaces; and

a navigation stack module communicatively coupled to the software application, the navigation stack module configured to manage workflow activities stored on a navigation stack;

wherein the software application is configured to provide data to the multiple primary user interfaces that causes each of the multiple primary user interfaces to present a view of a plurality of views of an application state of the software application;

wherein each workflow activity includes data corresponding to a configuration of the view model module and a list of views associated with the configuration and presentable on the multiple primary user interfaces, the data causing the view model module to perform one or more operations that cause the plurality of views, determined from the list of views, to be presented on the multiple primary user interfaces simultaneously in response to the configuration being loaded into the view model module;

wherein the navigation stack module is configured to maintain the navigation stack such that the plurality of views provided by the multiple primary user interfaces are consistent with each other and the application state;

wherein the navigation stack module is configured to store a workflow activity on the navigation stack that was not previously performed by the application in response to the application changing application state; and

wherein the workflow activity that was not previously performed is a logout workflow activity.

2. The system of claim 1, comprising:

an operating system stack communicatively coupled to the navigation stack module to store visual views to be presented using a display;

wherein the navigation stack is to manage the operating system stack to keep the operating system stack consistent with the navigation stack.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the navigation stack is to manage the operating system stack such that at most two activities are stored on the operating system stack.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the navigation stack module is configured to manage the operating system stack so that the visual views of the operating system stack are visual views from corresponding workflow activities and the visual views are stored on the operating system stack in the same order as the corresponding workflow activities stored on the navigation stack.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the workflow activity that was not previously performed is loaded into the view model module in response to the application receiving data indicating that a user is navigating to a previous workflow activity.

6. A method, comprising:

providing, using a view model module of a software application, data to multiple primary user interfaces that causes each of the multiple primary user interfaces to present a view of a plurality of views of an application state of the software application;

receiving, at the view model module, data indicating the application state of the application has changed;

pushing, in response to the receiving the data indicating the application state of the application has changed, a workflow activity of the application onto a navigation stack using a navigation stack module communicatively coupled to the software application;

wherein each workflow activity includes data corresponding to a configuration of the view model module and a list of views associated with the configuration and presentable on the multiple primary user interfaces, the data causing the view model module to provide the data that causes the plurality of views, determined from the list of views, to be presented on the multiple primary user interfaces in response to the configuration being loaded in the view model module;

maintaining, by the navigation stack module, the navigation stack such that the plurality of views provided by the multiple primary user interfaces are consistent with each other and the application state; and

storing a workflow activity on the navigation stack that was not previously performed by the application in response to the application state changing, wherein storing the workflow activity on the navigation stack that was not previously performed includes pushing a logout workflow activity on the navigation stack.

7. The method of claim 6, comprising:

storing visual views to be presented using a display on an operating system stack communicatively coupled to the navigation stack module; and

managing the operating system stack, using the navigation stack module, to keep the operating system stack consistent with the navigation stack.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein managing the operating system stack to keep the operating system stack consistent with the navigation stack includes managing the operating system stack such that at most two visual views are stored on the operating system stack.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein managing the operating system stack includes managing the operating system stack so that the visual views of the operating system stack are visual views from corresponding workflow activities and the visual views are stored on the operating system stack in the same order as the corresponding workflow activities are stored on the navigation stack.

10. The method of claim 6, comprising:

receiving data indicating that a user is navigating to a previous workflow activity; and

storing, in response receiving the data indicating that the user navigating to the previous workflow activity, the workflow activity on the navigation stack that was not previously performed.

11. A non-transitory machine readable storage device comprising instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a machine, configure the machine to perform operations comprising:

providing data to multiple primary user interfaces that causes each of the multiple primary user interfaces to present a view of a plurality of views of an application state of a software application;

pushing a workflow activity of the application onto a navigation stack, wherein each workflow activity includes data corresponding to a configuration of the machine and a list of views associated with the configuration and presentable on the multiple primary user interfaces, wherein the configuration causes the machine to provide the data that causes the plurality of views, determined from the list of views, to be presented on the multiple primary user interfaces in response to the configuration being loaded in the machine;

maintaining, by the navigation stack module, the navigation stack such that the plurality of views provided by the multiple primary user interfaces are consistent with each other and the application state; and

storing a workflow activity on the navigation stack that was not previously performed by the application in response to the application state changing, wherein storing the workflow activity on the navigation stack that was not previously performed includes pushing a logout workflow activity on the navigation stack.

12. The storage device of claim 11, comprising instructions which, when executed by the machine, configure the machine to perform operations comprising:

storing visual views to be presented using a display of the machine on an operating system stack of the machine; and

managing the operating system stack to keep the operating system stack consistent with the navigation stack.

13. The storage device of claim 12, wherein the instructions for managing the operating system stack to keep the operating system stack consistent with the navigation stack includes managing the operating system stack such that at most two visual views are stored on the operating system stack.

14. The storage device of claim 12, wherein the instructions for managing the operating system stack include instructions which, when executed by the machine, configure the machine to perform operations comprising managing the operating system stack so that the visual views of the operating system stack are visual views from corresponding workflow activities and the visual views are stored on the operating system stack in the same order as the corresponding workflow activities are stored on the navigation stack.