ENTERPRISE WEB APPLICATION CONSTRUCTOR SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20090013244A1
• Filed: 04/23/2008
• Published: 01/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: BEA Systems Incorporated (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Morais, Stephan Dennis, Cudich, Matias
• Granted Patent: US 8,819,542 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/40 Data acquisition and logging for input to computer G06F3/00
• 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 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/00 Computer-aided design [CAD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/10 Text processing natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30; processing or translation of natural language G06F40/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/123 Storage facilities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/137 Hierarchical processing, e.g. outlines
• 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 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/37 Compiler construction; Parser generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/121 using a cache memory
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 : Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15

Abstract

A web-based application constructor can be used to construct a web display. The web-based application constructor can obtain data from heterogeneous data sources having Web Services schemas to produce the web display. The web display can contain page components and can display the data from at least some heterogeneous data sources. A versioning system can keep track of changes to page components, page layout, searches, and text to allow users to make changes without administrative approval.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a web-based application constructor for constructing a web display, the web-based application constructor obtaining data from heterogeneous data sources to produce the web display;

the web display containing page components and displaying the data from at least some of the heterogeneous data sources; and

a versioning system that keeps track of changes to page components to allow users to make changes without administrative approval.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the page components contain interactive elements.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein all page editing is versioned.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein whether a page component is displayed to a user is controlled by roles and security.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein page layout is versioned.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein versions of the page are stored at a remote server.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein AJAX at a browser sends version update information to the remote server.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the heterogeneous data sources have Web Service schemas.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the versioning system keeps track of changes to page layout, searches, and text to allow users to make changes without administrative approval.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising a change control system to allow users to dynamically undo changes to page components while using the web-based application constructor.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the heterogeneous data sources is a relational database management system.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the heterogeneous data sources is a customer relationship management system.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one of the heterogeneous data sources is an enterprise resource planning system.

14. The system of claim 1, further comprising page templates to create the display.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the page components can include rich text.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein page components have their own URL.

17. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one page component is a view of data in a list.

18. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one page component is a view of data in a record.

19. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one page component is a view of an ad-hoc application.

20. The system of claim 1, wherein the display is constructed from available applications, wherein available applications can be dragged and dropped into page components.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein at least one of the heterogeneous data sources is a searchable resource and when the display provides for a search field into the searchable resource, the result of a search are shown in a page component of the display.

22. The system of claim 1, wherein page components has their own URLs and page components can be dragged and dropped to a new display.

23. The system of claim 1, wherein changes to a page component are propagated back to the application.

24. The system of claim 1, wherein the web-based application constructor provides roles to users that can be used to limit access to applications.

25. The system of claim 1, wherein the application constructor converts at least one object from a heterogeneous data source into a page component.

26. The system of claim 1, wherein the system allows for the construction of user interfaces to access different types of data.

27. A method comprising:

obtaining data from heterogeneous data sources to produce a web display, the web display containing page components and displaying the data from at least some heterogeneous data sources; and

keeping track of changes to page components to make changes without administrative approval.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein the page components contain interactive elements.

29. The method of claim 27, wherein all page editing is versioned.

30. The method of claim 27, wherein whether a page component is displayed to a user is controlled by roles and security.

31. The method of claim 27, wherein page layout is versioned.

32. The method of claim 27, wherein versions of the page are stored at a remote server.

33. The method of claim 32, wherein AJAX at a browser sends version update information to the remote server.

34. The method of claim 27, wherein page components have their own URL.

35. A computer readable medium comprising code to:

obtain data from heterogeneous data sources to produce a web display, the web display containing page components and displaying the data from at least some heterogeneous data sources; and

keep track of changes to page components to allow users to make changes without administrative approval.

36. The computer readable medium of claim 35, wherein the page components contain interactive elements.

37. The computer readable medium of claim 35, wherein all page editing is versioned.

38. The computer readable medium of claim 35, wherein whether a page component is displayed to a user is controlled by roles and security.

39. The computer readable medium of claim 35, wherein page layout is versioned.

40. The computer readable medium of claim 35, wherein versions of the page are stored at a remote server.

41. The computer readable medium of claim 40, wherein AJAX at a browser sends version update information to the remote server.

42. The computer readable medium of claim 35, further comprising a versioning system to keep track of changes to page layout, searches, and text to allow users to make changes without administrative approval.

43. The computer readable medium of claim 35, wherein page components have their own URL.

44. The computer readable medium of claim 35, wherein the versioning system further keeps track of changes to page layout, searches, and text to allow users to make changes without administrative approval.