MESSAGE BASED MOBILE OBJECT WITH NATIVE PIM INTEGRATION

• US 20110161383A1
• Filed: 12/30/2009
• Published: 06/30/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sybase Incorporated (SAP SE)
• Original Assignee: Sybase Incorporated (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Lau, Jean, Ho, Michael, Alberti, Johannes, Ireland, Evan Peter
• Granted Patent: US 8,909,662 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/822
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/27 Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for synchronizing data within a native PIM data store in a device an enterprise data. Data modifications generated by mobile applications on the device, or by an enterprise server, are identified and reflected into the native PIM data store. Additionally, a listener is provided to detect modifications to relevant data within the native PIM data store and reflect these modifications in the mobile applications and the enterprise server. The framework which accomplishes this further provides platform-independent access to the native PIM data store.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a data modification message in a communication framework on a device, the communication framework configured to provide platform-independent communications between a mobile application and an enterprise server;

identifying a modification to personal information management (“

PIM”

)-related data within the message; and

updating a native PIM store within the device based on the message.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting the message to the enterprise server, if the message originated at the mobile application, or to the mobile application, if the message originated at the enterprise server.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the message reflects a change, update, or deletion of data within the mobile application or enterprise server.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting the message to the enterprise server, wherein the message originated at the mobile application;

receiving a reply from the enterprise server; and

performing an additional update of the native PIM store based on the reply.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the enterprise server receives the transmitted message and replays the data modification, the reply comprising a status reflecting the success or failure of the replay operation.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein updating the native PIM store comprises:

correlating data within the message to fields within the native PIM store based on an XML document.

7. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, if executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method comprising:

receiving a data modification message in a communication framework on a device, the communication framework configured to provide platform-independent communications between a mobile application and an enterprise server;

identifying a modification to personal information management (“

PIM”

)-related data within the message; and

updating a native PIM store within the device based on the message.

8. The computer-readable medium of claim 7, the method further comprising:

transmitting the message to the enterprise server, if the message originated at the mobile application, or to the mobile application, if the message originated at the enterprise server.

9. The computer-readable medium of claim 8, wherein the message reflects a change, update, or deletion of data within the mobile application or enterprise server.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim 7, the method further comprising:

transmitting the message to the enterprise server, wherein the message originated at the mobile application;

receiving a reply from the enterprise server; and

performing an additional update of the native PIM store based on the reply.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the enterprise server receives the transmitted message and replays the data modification, the reply comprising a status reflecting the success or failure of the replay operation.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 7, wherein updating the native PIM store comprises:

correlating data within the message to fields within the native PIM store based on an XML document.

13. A system comprising:

a memory configured to store modules comprising;

a receiving module configured to receive a data modification message in a communication framework on a device, the communication framework configured to provide platform-independent communications between a mobile application and an enterprise server,

an identifying module configured to identify a modification to personal information management (“

PIM”

)-related data within the message, and

an updating module configured to update a native PIM store within the device based on the message; and

one or more processors configured to process the modules.

14. A method comprising:

monitoring a native personal information management (“

PIM”

) store within a device for data modifications therein;

detecting a modification to data within the native PIM store;

notifying a mobile application executing on the device of the modification; and

transmitting a message reflecting the modification to an enterprise server using a communication framework configured to provide platform-independent communications between the mobile device and the enterprise server.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

determining whether the modification affects data relevant to the mobile application based on an XML document.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

determining whether the modification was generated by the mobile application or the enterprise server based on correlation of an identifier associated with the modification and, if so, ignoring the modification.

17. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, if executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform a method comprising:

monitoring a native personal information management (“

PIM”

) store within a device for data modifications therein;

detecting a modification to data within the native PIM store;

notifying a mobile application executing on the device of the modification; and

transmitting a message reflecting the modification to a an enterprise server using a communication framework configured to provide platform-independent communications between the mobile device and the enterprise server.

18. The computer program product of claim 17, the method further comprising:

determining whether the modification affects data relevant to the mobile application based on an XML document.

19. The computer program product of claim 17, the method further comprising:

determining whether the modification was generated by the mobile application or the enterprise server based on correlation of an identifier associated with the modification and, if so, ignoring the modification.

20. A system comprising:

a memory configured to store modules comprising;

a monitoring module configured to monitor a native personal information management (“

PIM”

) store within a device for data modifications therein,

a detecting module configured to detect a modification to data within the native PIM store,

a notifying module configured to notify a mobile application executing on the device of the modification,

a transmitting module configured to transmit a message reflecting the modification to an enterprise server using a communication framework configured to provide platform-independent communications between the mobile device and the enterprise server; and

one or more processors configured to process the modules.