System and method for persisting state across navigations in a navigation-based application and for responding to navigation-related events throughout an application
First Claim
1. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable components including a plurality of resources configured as a navigation-based application, the components comprising:
- a NavigationApplication object having properties, methods, and events, a property being configured to store state information about resources of the navigation-based application, and an event being configured to indicate the occurrence of a navigation away from or to a resource of the navigation-based application.
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Abstract
Described is a mechanism for persisting state across navigations in a navigation-based application so that the state is accessible by each resource of a app. The invention provides an object (a “NavigationApplication object”) that persists across navigations. The NavigationApplication object allows developers to directly persist state by setting properties on that object and to trap navigation events. Enabling run-time state to be persisted in object form on the client not only improves performance, but makes it possible to develop navigation-based applications that can be run either online or offline. The NavigationApplication object makes it easier to persist state on the client across navigations.
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32 Claims
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1. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable components including a plurality of resources configured as a navigation-based application, the components comprising:
a NavigationApplication object having properties, methods, and events, a property being configured to store state information about resources of the navigation-based application, and an event being configured to indicate the occurrence of a navigation away from or to a resource of the navigation-based application. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A computer-readable medium encoded with a NavigationApplication object associated with a navigation-based application, the NavigationApplication object comprising:
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a first event operative to indicate a navigation away from a resource associated with the navigation-based application;
a first property operative to store, in object form, state information of the resource; and
a first method operative to cause the state information of the resource to be stored in the first property. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A method, implemented on a client computing system attached to a computing network, the method comprising:
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loading a navigation-based application having a plurality of associated resources; and
allowing those resources to share state information by storing the information in a property of a NavigationApplication object resident on the client computing system. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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