ENABLING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS FOR LIMITED-CAPABILITY COMPUTING DEVICES

• US 20110239101A1
• Filed: 06/13/2011
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Moldovanu, Petru M., Rivers-Moore, Jonathan E., Singh, Balbir
• Granted Patent: US 9,210,234 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/2895 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data provider application, e.g. reverse proxies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561

Abstract

System(s), method(s), and/or techniques (“tools”) are described that enable electronic document functionality for a limited-capability computing device. The tools may enable a computing device with limited display capabilities to present and enable navigation through nested items or hierarchical view levels of an electronic document. The tools may also build renderable view information by which a device may enable electronic document functionality based on the capabilities of that device.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving a request to edit an electronic document from a device that is incapable of rendering one or more of multiple portions of the electronic document; and

causing the electronic document to be edited responsive to input received from the device by;

receiving a postback name-value pair;

translating the postback name-value pair into an event log; and

editing the electronic document electronic form based on the event log.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said request includes an indication to treat the device as a limited-capability device for purposes of editing the electronic document.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said electronic document comprises a hierarchical view, said device is incapable of rendering the entire hierarchical view, and wherein said request comprises a request to edit only a particular sub-level of said hierarchical view that said device is capable of rendering.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said causing the electronic document to be edited comprises editing the electronic document at a resource that is remote from the device.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, wherein said request comprises a request to execute business logic associated with the electronic document that the device is incapable of executing, and wherein said causing the electronic document to be edited comprises executing the business logic via the resource that is remote from the device.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, wherein said device does not store a complete version of the electronic document, said resource stores the complete version of the electronic document, and said causing the electronic document to be edited comprises editing the complete version of the electronic document stored at the resource.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said causing the electronic document to be edited comprises editing a single portion of the multiple portions of the electronic document, and wherein the method further comprises sending only an edited version of the single portion of the electronic document to the device for display.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said electronic document comprises an electronic form with at least one fillable field, said name-value pair includes an indication of a value for said at least one fillable field, and said editing comprises filling said at least one fillable field based on said value.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said electronic document comprises multiple hierarchical view levels and said method further comprises:

receiving a request from the device for the electronic document;

providing to the device, in response to said request, only a first hierarchical view level of the multiple hierarchical view levels; and

providing to the device a second hierarchical view level of the multiple hierarchical view levels in response to an indication of an interaction at the device with the first hierarchical view level.

10. One or more computer-readable storage media comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed, cause a computing device to:

receive a request to edit an electronic document from a remote device, the request including a postback name-value pair;

translate the postback name-value pair into an event log; and

edit the electronic document based on the event log.

11. The one or more computer storage media of claim 10, wherein said electronic document comprises multiple portions and said request indicates that the remote device can only render a single portion of the multiple portions and further comprises a request to edit said single portion of the multiple portions.

12. The one or more computer storage media of claim 11, wherein said computer-executable instructions, when executed, further cause the computing device to:

edit the electronic document by editing the single portion of the multiple portions; and

send only an edited version of the single portion to the remote device for display.

13. The one or more computer storage media of claim 10, wherein said request comprises a request to execute business logic on the electronic document that the remote device is incapable of executing, and wherein said computer-executable instructions, when executed, further cause the computing device to edit the electronic document by executing the business logic on the electronic document.

14. The one or more computer storage media of claim 10, wherein said electronic document comprises an electronic form with at least one fillable field, said name-value pair includes an indication of a value for said at least one fillable field, and wherein said computer-executable instructions, when executed, further cause the computing device to edit said electronic document by filling said at least one fillable field based on said value.

15. The one or more computer storage media of claim 10, wherein said electronic document comprises multiple portions and wherein said computer-executable instructions, when executed, further cause the computing device to:

receive a request for the electronic document from the remote device;

determine that the device is incapable of rendering a complete version of the electronic document; and

send to the remote device only a portion of the multiple portions that the remote device is capable of rendering.

16. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving one or more edits to a electronic document from a remote device, the one or more edits including a postback indicating a request to execute business logic associated with the electronic document that the remote device is incapable of executing;

translating the postback into an event log; and

editing the electronic document by executing the business logic on the electronic document based on the event log.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 16, wherein executing said business logic comprises performing one or more calculations on said electronic document using data from said postback.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 16, wherein said electronic document comprises an electronic form with at least one fillable field and wherein executing said business logic comprises performing one or more calculations on a value for said at least one fillable field.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 16, wherein said electronic document comprises a hierarchical view, said remote device is incapable of rendering the entire hierarchical view, and wherein said request comprises a request to edit only a particular sub-level of said hierarchical view that said remote device is capable of rendering.

20. The computer-implemented method of claim 19, wherein said method further comprises:

receiving a request from the remote device for the electronic document; and

sending only a viewable edited version of said particular sub-level to the remote device.