SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CREATING MOBILE CUSTOM VIEWS FOR TENANTS OF AN ON-DEMAND DATABASE SERVICE

• US 20130246420A1
• Filed: 05/03/2013
• Published: 09/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Inventors: Forsberg, Eric, Mazyan, Bagrat, Schroeder, Jason, Kothule, Deepak
• Granted Patent: US 9,348,910 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/736
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/26 Visual data mining; Browsing structured data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/74 Browsing; Visualisation therefor end-user interfaces for requesting or interacting with video content, e.g. video on demand interfaces or electronic program guides, H04N21/472
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for creating mobile custom views for tenants of an on-demand database service. These mechanisms and methods for creating mobile custom views for tenants of an on-demand database service can enable embodiments to allow tenants to create and push instructions for generating user-defined views to mobile devices, etc. The ability of embodiments to provide such feature may allow tenants to efficiently and effectively create interfaces on mobile devices.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving a command to define a view for at least one mobile device associated with at least one tenant of at least one on-demand service, the command including at least one mobilized object;

generating at least one instruction for defining the view for the at least one mobile device, the at least one instruction being based at least in part on the at least one mobilized object; and

pushing the at least one instruction for defining the view to the at least one mobile device associated with the at least one tenant.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one instruction includes at least one controller instruction for a user interface controller on the at least one mobile device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the user interface controller includes logic for displaying a user interface corresponding to the view for the at least one mobile device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the at least one instruction is capable of being executed by a processor of the at least one mobile device for defining the view of the at least one mobile device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one mobilized object includes one or more fields.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the at least one instruction includes instructions to retrieve at least one value corresponding to the one or more fields of the at least one mobilized object.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the at least one value is capable of being processed to provide the view for the at least one mobile device.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising displaying the view for the at least one mobile device on the mobile device.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the at least one instruction in a storage location associated with the at least one tenant.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the pushing of the at least one instruction to the at least one mobile device is performed automatically.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one instruction includes at least one unique identifier.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the at least one unique identifier is utilized for validation of the at least one instruction.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the at least one mobile device utilizes the at least one unique identifier for performing the validation.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the on-demand service includes an on-demand database service.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the on-demand service includes a multi-tenant on-demand database service.

16. A machine-readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to carry out the steps of:

receiving a command to define a view for at least one mobile device associated with at least one tenant of at least one on-demand service, the command including at least one mobilized object;

generating at least one instruction for defining the view for the at least one mobile device, the at least one instruction being based at least in part on the at least one mobilized object; and

pushing the at least one instruction for defining the view to the at least one mobile device associated with the at least one tenant.

17. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor; and

one or more stored sequences of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to carry out the steps of;

receiving a command to define a view for at least one mobile device associated with at least one tenant of at least one on-demand service, the command including at least one mobilized object;

generating at least one instruction for defining the view for the at least one mobile device, the at least one instruction being based at least in part on the at least one mobilized object; and

pushing the at least one instruction for defining the view to the at least one mobile device associated with the at least one tenant.

18. A method for transmitting code for use in a multi-tenant database system on a transmission medium, the method comprising:

transmitting code for receiving a command to define a view for at least one mobile device associated with at least one tenant of at least one on-demand service, the command including at least one mobilized object;

transmitting code for generating at least one instruction for defining the view for the at least one mobile device, the at least one instruction being based at least in part on the at least one mobilized object; and

transmitting code for pushing the at least one instruction for defining the view to the at least one mobile device associated with the at least one tenant.