WEB BASED APPLICATION CONSTRUCTOR USING PAGE COMPONENTS ACCESSIBLE BY URL

• US 20090019357A1
• Filed: 04/23/2008
• Published: 01/15/2009
• 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 9,830,309 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 for constructing a web display. The web-based application constructor can obtain data from heterogeneous data sources to produce the web display. The web display can contain page components and display the data from at least some of the heterogeneous data sources. The page components can be accessible by URLs.

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;

wherein the page components are accessible by URLs.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the URLs are used by a security system.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the Roles are used to determine what page components are displayable to as user.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the URLs are automatically created.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein all elements on a page have its own URL.

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

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

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

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

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the version is stored at a remote server.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein AJAX at a browser sends the version information to a remote server.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the heterogeneous data sources have Web Services schemas.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

23. The system of claim 1, 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.