TASK SCHEDULING BASED ON USER INTERACTION

• US 20140282567A1
• Filed: 06/14/2013
• Published: 09/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Bhakar, Gautam, Nalliah, Selvaraj
• Granted Patent: US 10,007,554 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 718/102
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2209/485 Resource constraint
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4881 Scheduling strategies for dispatcher, e.g. round robin, multi-level priority queues

Abstract

Provided herein are systems, methods, and software for implementing information management applications. In an implementation, at least a portion of an information management application is embodied in program instructions that include various task modules and a scheduler module. In some implementations the program instructions are written in accordance with a single threaded programming language, such as JavaScript or any other suitable single threaded language. When executed, each task module returns control to the scheduler module upon completing. The scheduler module identifies to which of the plurality of task modules to grant control based at least in part on a relevance of each task module to a user interaction.

Claims

1. A computing apparatus comprising:

one or more computer readable storage media; and

an application comprising program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media and executable on single thread, the program instructions comprising;

a plurality of task modules, each of which when executed on the single thread by a processing system returns control to a scheduler module upon completing; and

the scheduler module, wherein the scheduler module, when executed on the single thread by the processing system upon control returning from any of the plurality of task modules, identifies to which of the plurality of task modules to grant control based at least in part on a relevance of each of the plurality of task modules to a user interaction.

2. The computing apparatus of claim 1 wherein a subset of the plurality of task modules comprises an operation series interrupted by the user interaction and wherein the scheduler module grants control to a one of the plurality of task modules not included in the operation series.

3. The computing apparatus of claim 2 wherein the one of the plurality of task modules not included in the operation series returns control to the scheduler module upon completing.

4. The computing apparatus of claim 3 wherein the operation series executes on the single thread upon launching the application and renders an initial view of a user interface to the application, the user interface comprising a plurality of elements.

5. The computing apparatus of claim 4 wherein the relevance of each of the plurality of task modules comprises to which element of the plurality of elements in the user interface the user interaction pertained.

6. The computing apparatus of claim 5 wherein the element comprises an email and wherein the plurality of task modules and the scheduler module comprise java script.

7. The computing apparatus of claim 1 further comprising the processing system configured to execute the plurality of task modules and the scheduler module on the single thread.

8. A method for facilitating an information exchange service comprising:

launching an application that interfaces with the information exchange service, the application comprising a plurality of task modules and a scheduler module, wherein the plurality of task modules each return control to the scheduler module upon completion;

upon completing execution of any of the plurality of task modules on a single thread, returning control to the scheduler module;

upon control returning to the scheduler module, executing the scheduler module on the single thread to at least identify to which of the plurality of task modules to grant control next based at least in part on a relevance of each of the plurality of task modules to a user interaction.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein a subset of the plurality of task modules comprises an operation series interrupted by the user interaction and wherein the scheduler module grants control to a one of the plurality of task modules not included in the operation series.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the one of the plurality of task modules not included in the operation series returns control to the scheduler module upon completing.

11. The method of claim 10 wherein the operation series executes on the single thread upon launching the application and renders an initial view of a user interface to the application, the user interface comprising a plurality of elements.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the relevance of each of the plurality of task modules comprises to which element of the plurality of elements in the user interface the user interaction pertained.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein the user interaction interrupts loading of the plurality of elements in the user interface, wherein the plurality of elements comprise emails.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the element comprises an email selected from the emails in the user interface and wherein the plurality of task modules and the scheduler module comprise JavaScript.

15. One or more computer readable storage media having program instructions stored thereon for facilitating an information management application that, when executed by a processing system, direct the processing system to at least:

load an initial subset of a plurality of task modules for execution on a single thread while a remaining subset of the plurality of task modules load in the background, wherein each of the plurality of task modules returns control upon completion to a scheduler module for execution on the single thread; and

upon control returning to the scheduler module, execute the scheduler module to identify to which of the plurality of task modules to grant control next based at least in part on a relevance of each of the plurality of task modules to a user interaction.

16. The one or more computer readable storage media of claim 15 wherein the initial subset of the plurality of task modules comprises an operation series interrupted by the user interaction and wherein the scheduler module grants control to a one of the plurality of task modules included in the remaining subset of the plurality of task modules.

17. The one or more computer readable storage media of claim 15 wherein the program instructions direct the processing system to load the initial subset of the plurality of task modules in response to launching the information management application, wherein the initial subset of the plurality of task modules, when executed by the processing system, render an initial view of a user interface to the information management application, the user interface comprising a plurality of elements.

18. The one or more computer readable storage media of claim 17 wherein the relevance of each of the plurality of task modules comprises to which element of the plurality of elements in the user interface the user interaction pertained.

19. The one or more computer readable storage media of claim 18 wherein the user interaction interrupts loading of a plurality of emails in the user interface.

20. The one or more computer readable storage media of claim 19 wherein the element comprises an email selected from the plurality of emails in the user interface and wherein the plurality of task modules and the scheduler module comprise java script.