System and Method of Generating Applications for Mobile Devices

• US 20090007081A1
• Filed: 05/23/2007
• Published: 01/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Allen N.L. Lau, Ion-Dan Calinescu, Jake Phillips, Oliver Attila Tabay
• Original Assignee: Allen N.L. Lau, Ion-Dan Calinescu, Jake Phillips, Oliver Attila Tabay
• Inventors: Lau, Allen N.L., Tabay, Oliver Attila, Phillips, Jake, Calinescu, Ion-Dan
• Application Number:
  US12/159,018
• Publication Number:
  US 20090007081A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/136
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/51 Source to source

Abstract

A system and method for transforming a reference application written for a reference mobile device into a target application for a target mobile device is disclosed. The system includes: a) transforms and metadata associated with each transform, where the transform includes instructions to modify a portion of the reference application and the metadata includes at least one of device-specific information and application-specific information; b) a plug-in containing links to a selected portion of the transforms, where the selected portion of the transforms is selected using the metadata; and c) a transformation engine which communicates with the with the plug-in to execute the instructions in each of the transforms in the selected portion.

Claims

1. A method of transforming a reference application configured to execute on a reference mobile device into a target application configured to execute on a target mobile device, the method comprising:

a) providing a plurality of transforms and metadata associated with each of the plurality of transforms, wherein the plurality of transforms comprise instructions to modify a portion of the reference application, the metadata comprising at least one of device-specific information and application-specific information; and

b) executing the instructions from a selected portion of the plurality of transforms, wherein the selected portion of the plurality of transforms is selected based on the metadata.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing a plurality of links stored in a plug-in, wherein each of the plurality of links points to a corresponding one of the selected portion of the plurality of transforms.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising selecting the selected portion of the plurality of transforms using the metadata associated with each transform.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising populating the plug-in with at least a portion of the plurality of links.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising searching the metadata using a search engine.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising assigning a domain to the plurality of transforms.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the domain is selected from the group comprising:

TRUSTED, GLOBAL, INTERNAL, and LOCAL.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the executing step further comprises a transformation engine accessing the plurality of links stored in the plug-in.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the reference application is written in the Java™

programming language and wherein the executing step comprises modifying the reference application at a byte code level.

10. A system for transforming a reference application adapted to execute on a reference mobile device into a target application configured to execute on a target mobile device, the system comprising:

a) a plurality of transforms and metadata associated with each of the plurality of transforms, wherein each of the plurality of transforms comprise instructions to modify a portion of the reference application, the metadata comprising at least one of device-specific information and application-specific information;

b) a plug-in adapted to access a selected portion of the plurality of transforms, wherein the selected portion of the plurality of transforms is selected using the metadata; and

c) a transformation engine adapted to communicate with the with the plug-in in order to execute the instructions in each of the selected portion of the plurality of transforms.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the plug-in comprises a plurality of links, wherein each of the link points to a corresponding one of the selected portion of the plurality of transforms.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein a domain is assigned to each of the plurality of transforms.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the domain is selected from the group comprising:

TRUSTED, GLOBAL, INTERNAL, and LOCAL.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the transformation engine is adapted to modify the reference application at a byte code level.

15. A computer readable medium having instructions recorded thereon, for execution by a computer, for transforming a reference application configured to execute on a reference mobile device into a target application configured to execute on a target mobile device, the instructions comprising:

a) providing a plurality of transforms and metadata associated with each of the plurality of transforms, wherein the plurality of transforms comprise instructions to modify a portion of the reference application, the metadata comprising at least one of device-specific information and application-specific information; and

b) executing the instructions from a selected portion of the plurality of transforms, wherein the selected portion of the plurality of transforms is selected based on the metadata.

16. The computer readable medium of claim 15, further comprises providing a plurality of links stored in a plug-in, wherein each of the plurality of links points to a corresponding one of the selected portion of the plurality of transforms.

17. The computer readable medium of claim 16, further comprising selecting the selected portion of the plurality of transforms using the metadata associated with each transform.

18. The computer readable medium of claim 17, further comprising populating the plug-in with at least a portion of the plurality of links.

19. The computer readable medium of claim 18, further comprising searching the metadata using a search engine.

20. The computer readable medium of claim 19, further comprising assigning a domain to the portion of the plurality of transforms.

21. The computer readable medium of claim 20, wherein the domain is selected from the group comprising:

TRUSTED, GLOBAL, INTERNAL, and LOCAL.

22. The computer readable medium of claim 21, wherein the executing step further comprises a transformation engine accessing the plurality of links stored in the plug-in.

23. The computer readable medium of claim 22, wherein the reference application is written in the Java™

programming language and wherein the executing step comprises modifying the reference application at a byte code level.