Application system having an LLVM compiler

• US 10,599,405 B2
• Filed: 07/27/2018
• Issued: 03/24/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Umajin
• Original Assignee: Umajin
• Inventors: Brebner, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Bui, Hanh Thi-Minh
• Application Number:
  US16/047,613
• Publication Number:
  US 20180357050A1
• Time in Patent Office: 606 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/362 Software debugging
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/311 Functional or applicative languages; Rewrite languages
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/315 Object-oriented languages
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/34 Graphical or visual programming
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/36 Software reuse
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/41 Compilation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/76 Adapting program code to run in a different environment; Porting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44526 Plug-ins; Add-ons
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/104 Peer-to-peer [P2P] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

An application system for the creation, deployment, and management of digital content assets is provided, for developing media-rich content and applications that have a simple architecture that is also comprehensive and extensible. In embodiments, a system for creating, sharing and managing digital content may include a visual editing environment that enables a developer to create and edit code controlling a digital content asset in a declarative language and a code execution engine that operates on the code created in the visual editing environment to control execution of at least one hardware infrastructure element that enables the utilization of the digital content asset, wherein the same declarative language and code execution engine are used during editing of the digital content asset and at runtime and wherein the visual editor and runtime code are compiled for distribution using LLVM.

Claims

1. A system for creating, sharing, and managing digital content, comprising:

a processing system having one or more processors that execute computer-executable instructions that cause the processing system to;

provide an editor and runtime infrastructure that includes;

a visual editing environment configured to enable a developer to create and edit code controlling a digital content asset in a declarative language, the visual editing environment configured to;

display a page layout of a page of the digital content asset,

receive a first user input to add a visual element to the page layout, and

display the visual element in the page layout; and

a compiler that compiles and generates code based on the page layout and the first user input such that the code causes a computing device executing the digital content asset to display the visual element in the page of the digital content asset;

receive the code from the editor and runtime infrastructure; and

operate, by a code execution engine, on the code created in the visual editing environment to control execution of at least one hardware infrastructure element that enables the utilization of the digital content asset,

wherein the same declarative language and code execution engine are used during editing of the digital content asset and at runtime of the digital content asset at the computing device, and wherein code of the visual editing environment and the code generated by visual editing environment are compiled for distribution using an LLVM™

compiler, and

wherein a plurality of end users using different devices can simultaneously experience the same behavior of the digital content asset during its creation and editing.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the code of the visual editing environment and the code generated by visual editing environment are bound to the code execution engine.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the code execution engine is a C++ engine.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein a digital content asset may be compiled, linked to the code execution engine, and executed by the engine independent of support by tools outside the visual editing environment.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the code execution engine controls utilization of at least one of a central processing unit (“

CPU”

) and a graphics processing unit (“

GPU”

) of a hardware endpoint device upon which the digital content asset runs.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the code execution engine governs execution of the code across a plurality of operating systems to provide a consistent user experience with the digital content asset.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the code execution engine governs execution of the code across a plurality of mobile operating systems.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the mobile operating systems are selected from among iOS™

, Android™

, and Windows™

operating systems.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein the code execution engine governs execution of the code across a plurality of computer operating systems.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the computer systems are selected from among Windows™

, Mac™

, and Linux™

operating systems.

11. The system of claim 6, wherein the code execution engine governs execution of the code across a plurality of operating systems including at least one mobile operating system and at least one other operating system.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the operating systems are selected from the group consisting of Windows™

, Mac™

, Linux™

, iOS™ and

Android™

operating systems.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the code execution engine enables control of network layer interactions for the digital content asset.

14. The system of claim 1, further comprising at least one LLVM™

debugging tool for debugging the compiled code for the digital content asset.

15. The system of claim 1, further comprising a plug-in system for orchestrating components and events for the digital content asset.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the plug-in system is a Javascript™

plug-in system.

17. The system of claim 1, wherein the visual editing environment is configured to serialize code input to the visual editing environment.

18. The system of claim 1, wherein the visual editing environment is configured to de-serialize code input to the visual editing environment.