EMBEDDED USER INTERFACE

• US 20140033227A1
• Filed: 02/29/2008
• Published: 01/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Kukulski, Timothy W., Hebbar, Vivek, Crosby, Matthew N.
• Granted Patent: US 9,400,661 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/313
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/452 Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/547 Remote procedure calls [RPC]; Web services

Abstract

A system to provide embedded user interface (UI) may comprise a request collector to receive a request directed at a host application from a user interface (UI), a response collector to receive a response from the host application, and a response dispatcher to dispatch the response to the UI via the asynchronous communication channel. The request and the response may be communicated via an asynchronous communication channel.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

determining a location of a user interface;

based on the location of the user interface, selecting a version of a communication handler;

opening an asynchronous communication channel associated with the selected version of the communication handler;

receiving a request from the user interface (UI) via the asynchronous communication channel, the request directed at a host application;

communicating the request to the host application;

receiving a response from the host application; and

dispatching the response to the user interface via the asynchronous communication channel.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the host application is located remotely with respect to the UI.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the asynchronous communication channel is based on sockets.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the host application is located locally with respect to the UI.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4, wherein the asynchronous communication channel is an external interface.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the host application is a desktop application.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein the desktop application is a content viewing application.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the host application is a web application.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the communicating of the request to the host application comprises queuing the request.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the dispatching of the response to the UI comprises queuing the response.

11. A system comprising:

a memory;

at least one processor coupled to the memory;

a desktop application in communication with a user interface, the desktop application comprising a communication handler, the desktop application to;

determine, using the at least one processor, a location of the user interface;

based on the location of the user interface, select a version of the communication handler;

open an asynchronous communication channel associated with the selected version of the communication handler;

the communication handler comprising;

a request collector to receive a request directed at a host application from the user interface (UI) via an asynchronous communication channel.

a request dispatcher to communicate the request to the host application,

a response collector to receive a response from the host application, and

a response dispatcher to dispatch the response to the user interface via the asynchronous communication channel.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the host application is located remotely with respect to the UI.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the asynchronous communication channel is based on sockets.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the host application is located locally with respect to the UI.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the asynchronous communication channel is an external interface.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the host application is a desktop application.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the desktop application is a content viewing application.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein the host application is a web application.

19. The system of claim 11, comprising a request queue to queue the request.

20. The system of claim 11, comprising a response queue to queue the response.

21. An apparatus comprising:

means for determining a location of a user interface;

means for selecting a version of a communication handler based on the location of the user interface;

based on the location of the user interface, opening an asynchronous communication channel associated with the selected version of the communication handler;

means for receiving a request from a user interface (UI) via the asynchronous communication channel, the request directed at a host application;

means for communicating the request to the host application;

means for receiving a response from the host application; and

means for dispatching the response to the UI via the asynchronous communication channel.

22. A machine-readable non-transitory storage medium having instruction data to cause a machine to:

determine a location of a user interface (UI);

based on the location of the UI, select a version of a communication handler;

open an asynchronous communication channel associated with the selected version of the communication handler;

receive a request from a user interface (UI) via the asynchronous communication channel, the request directed at a host application;

communicate the request to the host application;

receive a response from the host application; and

dispatch the response to the UI via the asynchronous communication channel.

23. A system comprising:

a memory;

at least one processor coupled to the memory; and

a desktop application in communication with a user interface, the desktop application to;

receive, using the at least one processor, an indication regarding a location of the user interface, and

load a version of an associated communication handler in response to the indication.

24. The system of claim 23, wherein the location indication regarding the location of the user interface is an environmental variable associated with the desktop application.

25. The system of claim 23, wherein the location is local and the version of the associated communication handler utilizes ExternalInterface.

26. The system of claim 23, wherein the location is remote and the version of the associated communication handler utilizes sockets communication.