Display Dialogs

• US 20140344674A1
• Filed: 08/05/2014
• Published: 11/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Zhu, Wei, Valtchanov, Nikolay A.
• Application Number:
  US14/451,533
• Publication Number:
  US 20140344674A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/240
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

In one embodiment, a first device sends a request to a second device, the request causing a dialog to be displayed on the first device. The second device selects a rendered dialog template corresponding to the dialog; constructs a web page that includes the rendered dialog template; and sends the web page to the first device. The first device displays the web page including the dialog.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

by one or more computing devices,

receiving, from client-side code associated with a user-interface component of an electronic device, a request for a web page to be displayed on the electronic device, the web page including content associated with a rendered template of a plurality of rendered templates, each rendered template comprising one or more place holders for insertion of content and having been rendered for display on electronic devices;

selecting, from the plurality of templates, the rendered template based on the request;

constructing a web page that includes the rendered template comprising the one or more placeholders; and

sending, to the electronic device, the web page including the rendered template comprising the one or more placeholders for insertion and display of the content by the client-side code executed on the requesting electronic device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the rendered template is included in the web page as an “

iframe”

element.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the rendered template is referenced with a Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

4. The method of claim 1, wherein:

each place holder is identified by a token and corresponds to a piece of content.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

rendering the plurality of templates for display on the electronic devices;

storing the plurality of rendered templates;

associating each rendered template with a unique Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for identifying and referencing the rendered template; and

associating each rendered template with one or more types of content.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein each rendered template is represented using HyperText Markup Language (HTML) code.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein:

at least one of the plurality of templates comprises one or more pieces of dynamic content; and

for each template that comprises one or more pieces of dynamic content, when rendering the template, each piece of dynamic content included in the template has a corresponding place holder, identified by a token, in the rendered template.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein selecting the rendered template comprises:

determining a type of content to which the requested content belongs; and

selecting, from the one or more rendered templates, the specific rendered template corresponding to the type of content to which the requested content belongs.

9. A method comprising:

sending, to a computing device and by client-side code associated with a user-interface component of an electronic device, a request for a web page to be displayed on the electronic device;

receiving, from the computing device, a web page that includes a rendered template, the rendered template comprising one or more place holders for insertion of content;

inserting, by the client-side code, content in the place of the one or more place holders; and

displaying, by the client-side code associated with the user-interface component of the electronic device, the web page including the rendered template and the content inserted in the place of the one or more place holders.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the rendered template is included in an “

iframe”

element in the web page.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein:

the rendered template is associated with a Uniform Resource Locator (URL); and

the rendered template is represented using HyperText Markup Language (HTML) code.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

processing the rendered template included in the web page to identify the one or more place holders; and

for each place holder, selecting a piece of content to be displayed instead of the place holder.

13. The method of claim 9, the client-side code comprises a client-side script, written in JavaScript, residing on the electronic device.

14. The method of claim 9, further comprising caching the rendered template.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein the electronic device is a mobile device.

16. A system comprising:

a memory comprising instructions executable by one or more processors; and

the one or more processors coupled to the memory and operable to execute the instructions, the one or more processors being operable when executing the instructions to;

receive, from client-side code associated with a user-interface component of an electronic device, a request for a web page to be displayed on the electronic device, the web page including content associated with a rendered template of a plurality of rendered templates, each rendered template comprising one or more place holders for insertion of content and having been rendered for display on electronic devices;

select, from the plurality of templates, the rendered template based on the request;

construct a web page that includes the rendered template comprising the one or more placeholders; and

send, to the electronic device, the web page including the rendered template comprising the one or more placeholders for insertion and display of the content by the client-side code executed on the requesting electronic device.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the rendered template is included in the web page as an “

iframe”

element.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the one or more processors are further operable when executing the instructions to:

render the plurality of templates for display on the electronic devices;

store the plurality of rendered templates;

associate each rendered dialog template with a unique Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for identifying and referencing the rendered template; and

associate each rendered template with one or more types of content.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein each rendered template is represented using HyperTextMarkup Language (HTML) code.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein:

at least one of the plurality of templates comprises one or more pieces of dynamic content; and

for each dialog template that comprises one or more pieces of dynamic content, when rendering the template, each piece of dynamic content included in the template has a corresponding place holder, identified by a token, in the rendered template.

21. The system of claim 18, wherein, when selecting the rendered template, the one or more processors are further operable when executing the instructions to:

determine a type of content to which the requested content belongs; and

selecting, from the one or more rendered templates, the specific rendered template corresponding to the type of content to which the requested content belongs.