UPDATING DATA-CONSUMING ENTITIES

• US 20100241669A1
• Filed: 03/18/2009
• Published: 09/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Pettit, Bradley R., Surpatanu, Nicolae
• Granted Patent: US 9,253,536 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/803
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/70 of video data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26291 for providing content or additional data updates, e.g. updating software modules, stored at the client deployment, distribution, installation, update of software G06F8/65; error detection or correction during software upgrading G06F11/1433; arrangements for updating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/25
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/431 Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6547 comprising parameters, e.g. for client setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8173 End-user applications, e.g. Web browser, game

Abstract

This document describes tools capable of updating data-consuming entities. These tools allow a developer of an application to use data binding to update data-consuming entities without the need to write custom code.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

registering a data-location path with an external entity capable of managing data from one or more data locations, the data-location path being an internal property of an application and the external entity being external to the application and located on a same computing device as the application; and

responsive to receiving a notification from the external entity indicating that data located at a data location specified by the data-location path has changed, updating one or more data-consuming entities with the data that was changed, the one or more data-consuming entities being located within the application and referencing the data located at the data location specified by the data-location path through the external entity.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the method is performed by the application.

3. The method as recited in claim 2, wherein the application comprises a module internal to the application and the module performs the method.

4. The method as recited in claim 3, wherein the data-location path is an internal property of the module.

5. The method as recited in claim 3, wherein the one or more data-consuming entities reference the data located at the data location through the external entity indirectly through the module.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising communicating a request to the external entity for the data that was changed.

7. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising receiving the data that was changed from the external entity.

8. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the data-location path is a Uniform Resource Identifier.

9. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the data location is remote from the computing device.

10. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the data location is local to the application.

11. A method comprising:

detecting a change to data that is located at a data location specified by a data-location path, the data-location path being an internal property of an application located on a same computing device as an external entity, the external entity being external to the application; and

responsive to detecting the change, communicating the data that has changed to the application for consumption by one or more data-consuming entities located within the application, the one or more data-consuming entities referencing the data through the external entity.

12. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein said communicating the data that has changed further comprises communicating a notification that the data has changed to the application.

13. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein said communicating the data that has changed is responsive to receiving a request, from the application, for the data that has changed.

14. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the data-location path is an internal property of a module internal to the application and the one or more data-consuming entities reference the data through the external entity indirectly through the module.

15. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the data-location path is a Uniform Resource Identifier.

16. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the data location is remote from the computing device.

17. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the data location is local to the application.

18. One or more tangible computer-readable media having stored thereon, computer-executable instructions that, if executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method comprising:

registering, using an internal module, a data-location path with an external entity capable of managing data from one or more data locations, the data-location path being an internal property of the internal module, the internal module being internal to an application, the external entity being located on a same computing device as the application but external to the application;

detecting, using the external entity, a change to the data that is located at the data location specified by the data-location path;

responsive to detecting the change, communicating, using the external entity, the data that has changed to the internal module; and

updating, using the internal entity, one or more data-consuming entities with the data that has changed, the one or more data-consuming entities being located within the application and referencing the data through the internal module.

19. The media as recited in claim 18, wherein the data location is remote from the computing device.

20. The media as recited in claim 18, wherein the data location is local to the application.