APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING USER INTERFACE BASED ON TASK SERVICE

• US 20090144735A1
• Filed: 03/21/2008
• Published: 06/04/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation, Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation Yonsei University, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Industry Academic Cooperation Foundation, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lim, Sungsoo, Hong, Jin-Hyuk, Park, Sang Do, KIM, Jun Hyeong, Cho, Sung-Bae
• Granted Patent: US 8,645,903 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 718/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

An apparatus for generating a task-based UI includes a task ontology unit for maintaining task information with respect to the task, a device ontology unit for maintaining device information with respect to a device, a UI description generation unit for reading the task information and/or the device information using the task ontology unit and/or the device ontology unit, respectively, and generating UI description information from the read task information and/or the read device information, the UI description information being made by a task-based language, and a UI description parsing unit for parsing the UI description information to output the task-based UI.

Claims

1. An apparatus for generating a task-based user interface (UI), the apparatus comprising:

a task ontology unit for maintaining task information with respect to the task;

a device ontology unit for maintaining device information with respect to a device;

a UI description generation unit for reading the task information and/or the device information using the task ontology unit and/or the device ontology unit, respectively, and generating UI description information from the read task information and/or the read device information, the UI description information being made by a task-based language; and

a UI description parsing unit for parsing the UI description information to output the task-based UI.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the UI description generation unit performs a mapping process with respect to task semantic information being analyzed using the task information, and with respect to device semantic information being analyzed using the device information, respectively.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein:

the task semantic information includes task functional information about the task, and the device semantic information includes device functional information about the device, and

the UI description generation unit analyzes the task functional information and the device functional information to automatically map the task functional information and the device functional information.

4. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the UI description generation unit analyzes similarity between the devices based on the task semantic information and/or the device semantic information to perform the mapping process.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the similarity is analyzed based on a Jaccard coefficient.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the UI description generation unit integrates task interface information being analyzed using the task information with device interface information being read using the device information to generate the UI description information.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

the task-based language includes a device description section for describing a relationship with the device, an internal state of the device, and a variable for controlling a function of the device, a task description section for describing the task information being a process unit providing services to a user, and an interface description section for describing the task-based UI corresponding to the device information and the task information.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein:

the task description section includes connection information with the device being based on task semantic information, and

the interface description section includes interface connection information being based on device semantic information, and/or the task semantic information.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the interface description section includes design form information being analyzed using the interface connection information.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the task-based UI includes a task hierarchy including a task list available to a user, a basic interface hierarchy providing a basic UI corresponding to the task list, and a detailed interface hierarchy providing a detailed interface for detailed functions other than the basic UI.

11. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the task-based language is an extensible Markup Language (XML).

12. A method for generating a task-based user interface (UI), the method comprising:

receiving task selection input information from a user;

reading task information corresponding to the task selection input information from a task ontology unit and device information from a device ontology unit, respectively;

generating UI description information from the task information and the device information through a UI description generation unit; and

parsing the UI description information through a UI description analysis unit to output the task-based UI.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the generating includes:

analyzing task semantic information from the task information and device semantic information from the device information, respectively; and

performing a mapping process with respect to the task semantic information and the device semantic information.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the performing includes analyzing similarity between the devices based on the task semantic information and the device semantic information.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the similarity is analyzed based on a Jaccard coefficient.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the generating includes integrating device interface information being read from the device information with task interface information being analyzed from the task information.

17. A computer-readable storage medium storing a program to generate a task-based user interface (UI), comprising instructions to cause a computer to:

receive task selection input information from a user;

read task information corresponding to the task selection input information from a task ontology unit and device information from a device ontology unit, respectively;

generate UI description information from the task information and the device information through a UI description generation unit; and

parse the UI description information through a UI description analysis unit to output the task-based UI.