TRANSLATION OF PROGRAMMING CODE

• US 20100146492A1
• Filed: 12/04/2009
• Published: 06/10/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Xenogenic Development Limited Liability Company (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Real Dice, Inc. (888 Holdings PLC)
• Inventors: Alexevitch, Alexie, Lavian, Tal, Ben-Artzi, Amatzia, Glyakov, Alexander, Ben-Artzi, Guy, Shacham, Yotam, Levi, Yehuda, McMahon, Russell W.
• Granted Patent: US 8,762,963 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/137
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/315 Object-oriented languages
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/76 Adapting program code to run in a different environment; Porting

Abstract

Embodiments of the invention may provide methods and/or systems for converting a source application to a platform-independent application. Source programming language code of the source application may be translated to target programming language code of the platform-independent application. The source programming language code may comprise Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) code, and the platform-independent programming language may be independent of one or more device platforms. Further, one or more source resources associated with the source application may be converted to one or more target resources.

Claims

1. A method for converting a source application to a platform-independent application, the method comprising:

translating source programming language code of the source application to target programming language code of the platform-independent application, wherein the source programming language code comprises Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) code, and wherein the target programming language is independent of one or more device platforms; and

converting one or more source resources associated with the source application to one or more target resources.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising providing a configuration of the source application to the platform-independent application.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the translating the source programming language code comprises:

tokenizing one or more characters of one or more input files of the source programming language code to generate a list of tokens;

parsing the list of tokens to generate one or more document object models;

generating an environment document object model comprising the one or more document object models, wherein the one or more input files are cross-referenced within the one or more document object models of the environment document object model; and

analyzing the environment document object model to generate one or more characters of one or more output fifes of the target programming language code.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the analyzing the environment document object model comprises using a depth first search algorithm.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more target resources comprise one or more platform-independent resources.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more target resources comprise one or more of an image, an audio, or a video.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the source programming language and the platform-independent programming language are object oriented programming languages.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising downloading computer-executable instructions that, if executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to execute said translating.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising downloading computer-executable instructions that, if executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to execute said converting.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising making available for downloading computer-executable instructions that, if executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to execute said translating.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising making available for downloading computer-executable instructions that, if executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to execute said converting.

12. An apparatus for converting a source application to a platform-independent application, the apparatus comprising:

a code transformer configured to translate source programming language code of the source application to target programming language code of the platform-independent application, wherein the source programming language code comprises Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) code, and wherein the platform-independent programming language is independent of one or more device platforms; and

a resource converter configured to convert one or more source resources associated with the source application to one or more target resources.

13. The apparatus of claim 12 further comprising a configuration module configured to provide a configuration of the source application to the platform-independent application.

14. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the code transformer comprises:

a document object model constructor configured to;

tokenize one or more characters of one or more input files of the source programming language code to generate a list of tokens; and

parse the list of tokens to generate one or more document object models;

an environment document object model constructor configured to generate an environment document object model comprising the one or more document object models, wherein the one or more input files are cross-referenced within the one or more document object models of the environment document object model; and

an emitter configured to analyze the environment document object model to generate one or more characters of one or more output files of the target programming language code.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the emitter is configured to analyze the environment document object model comprises using a depth first search algorithm.

16. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the one or more target resources comprise one or more platform-independent resources.

17. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the one or more target resources comprise one or more of an image, an audio, or a video.

18. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the source and the platform-independent programming languages are object oriented programming languages.

19. A system for converting a source application to a platform-independent application, the system comprising:

means for translating source programming language code of the source application to target programming language code of the platform-independent application, wherein the source programming language code comprises Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) code, and wherein the platform-independent programming language is independent of one or more device platforms; and

means for converting one or more source resources associated with the source application to one or more target resources.

20. The system of claim 19 further comprising means for providing a configuration of the source application to the platform-independent application.

21. The system of claim 19, wherein the means for translating the source programming language code comprises:

means for tokenizing one or more characters of one or more input files of the source programming language code to generate a list of tokens;

means for parsing the list of tokens to generate one or more document object models;

means for generating an environment document object model comprising the one or more document object models, wherein the one or more input files are cross-referenced within the one or more document object models of the environment document object model; and

means for analyzing the environment document object model to generate one or more characters of one or more output files of the target programming language code.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein the means for analyzing the environment document object model comprises means for using a depth first search algorithm.

23. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions that, if executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to implement a method for converting a source application to a platform-independent application, said method comprising:

translating source programming language code of the source application to target programming language code of the platform-independent application, wherein the source programming language code comprises Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) code, and wherein the platform-independent programming language is independent of one or more device platforms; and

converting one or more source resources associated with the source application to one or more target resources.

24. The method of claim 23 further comprising providing a configuration of the source application to the platform-independent application.

25. The method of claim 23, wherein the translating the source programming language code comprises:

tokenizing one or more characters of one or more input files of the source programming language code to generate a list of tokens;

parsing the list of tokens to generate one or more document object models;

generating an environment document object model comprising the one or more document object models, wherein the one or more input files are cross-referenced within the one or more document object models of the environment document object model; and

analyzing the environment document object model to generate one or more characters of one or more output files of the target programming language code.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the analyzing the environment document object model comprises using a depth first search algorithm.

27. The method of claim 23, wherein the source and the platform-independent programming languages are object oriented programming languages.