CONTROL AND PART COMPLIANT HIERARCHY

• US 20150095791A1
• Filed: 04/01/2014
• Published: 04/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Olenick, Brad, Welicki, Leon Ezequiel, Beckwith, Justin, Joshi, Vishal R., Anson, David, Doan, Thao, Danton, Stephen Michael, Yuen, Wai Man, Joshi, Madhur, Millington, Bradley D., Cox, Tom, Bhojawala, Nafisa, Dias, Alvaro Rahul, Wong, Eric Hwa-Wei, Owens, Kristofer John, Alexander, Brendyn, Goupil, Jean-Sebastien, Chen, Liang-Ming, Birck, Andrew, Forget, Andrew
• Granted Patent: US 9,727,636 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/742
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2428 Query predicate definition using graphical user interfaces, including menus and forms G06F16/2423 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3329 Natural language query formulation or dialogue systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/34 Graphical or visual programming
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• 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 9/4856 resumption being on a different machine, e.g. task migration, virtual machine migration G06F9/5088 takes precedence

Abstract

A hierarchy of controls and parts, that are each in accordance with constraints of a computing executing context. A control is executable code that performs a function and which may impart a visualization. A part is a unit of visualization container that has its own visualization and/or shows visualizations from one or more compliant controls associated with the part.

Claims

1. A system for comprising programs comprising:

a set of compliant controls, each of which a) complying with a predetermined set of control constraints of an computing execution context, and b) being available for execution within the computing execution context; and

a set of parts, at least some of which being associated with one or more of the set of controls such that when the associated control(s) are executed within the computing execution context, the corresponding part visually contains a result of the execution, wherein each of the set of parts satisfies a predetermined set of part constraints of the computing execution context.

2. The system in accordance with claim 1, the set of parts including at least one intrinsic part created by an entity that provides the computing execution context, or sets the part constraints.

3. The system in accordance with claim 1, the set of parts including at least one extrinsic part created by an entity using a part composition component that enforces that the extrinsic part satisfies the predetermined set of part constraints.

4. The system in accordance with claim 1, the set of parts including a plurality of intrinsic parts that are suitable across a plurality of domains, and including a plurality of extrinsic parts that are suitable for a subset of the plurality of domains.

5. The system in accordance with claim 1, at least a particular compliant control of the set of compliant controls being derived at least in part from a source control that does not satisfy the control constraints of the computing executing context.

6. The system in accordance with claim 5, the particular compliant control being derived using a control constrainer that derives compliant controls that satisfy the control constraints from source controls that do not satisfy the control constraints.

7. The system in accordance with claim 1, further comprising:

a control constrainer that derives compliant controls that satisfy the control constraints from source controls that do not satisfy the control constraints.

8. The system in accordance with claim 1, at least a particular compliant control of the set of compliant controls being derived, at least in part, from another of the compliant controls of the set of compliant controls.

9. The system in accordance with claim 1, the control constraints comprising functional constraints of the set of compliant controls.

10. The system in accordance with claim 1, the control constraints comprising visualization constraints of the set of compliant controls.

11. A computer program product comprising one or more computer-readable storage media having thereon computer-executable instructions that are structured such that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a method for facilitating composition of a part that represents a visualized container executed within a computing execution context, the method comprising:

an act of a user defining a part that includes a definition of a function set and a visualization setting set;

an act of automatically determining that the defined function set and the defined visualization set are consistent with a predetermined set of part constraints corresponding to the computing execution context; and

in response to the act of automatically determining, an act of generating executable code that represents the part and which performs at least those portions of the function set that are consistent with the functional part constraints corresponding to the computing execution context, and at least those portions of the visualization set that are consistent with the visualization part constraints.

12. The computer program product in accordance with claim 11, the act of defining a part comprising:

an act of referencing at least one control included in a set of controls, each of which a) satisfying a predetermined set of control constraints of the computing execution context, and b) being available for execution within the computing execution context.

13. The computer program product in accordance with claim 11, the act of generating performed so that the part executable code also performs a set of standard part functions not defined by the user and which are compliant with the part constraints of the computing execution context.

14. The computer program product in accordance with claim 11, the act of generating performed so that the part executable code also visualizes in accordance with a set of standard visualizations not defined by the user.

15. The computer program product in accordance with claim 11, further comprising:

an act of providing the part as part of an extension to a set of intrinsic part, the intrinsic parts being used for multiple domains within the computing execution context, and the extension being used for a subset of the multiple domains within the computing execution context.

16. The computer program product in accordance with claim 11, further comprising:

an act of submitting the part to a library manager of a set of intrinsic parts that each comply with the predetermined set of part constraints corresponding to the computing execution context.

17. The computer program product in accordance with claim 16, further comprising:

an act of accessing one or more intrinsic parts from the set of intrinsic parts, the set of intrinsic parts being available to multiple application developers.

18. The computer program product in accordance with claim 11, the part constraints comprising functional part constraints of the computing executing context.

19. The computer program product in accordance with claim 11, the part constraints comprising visualization part constraints of the computing executing context.

20. A method for facilitating composition of a part that represents a visualized container executed within a computing execution context, the method comprising:

an act of accessing a part that includes a definition of a function set and a visualization setting set;

an act of automatically determining that the defined function set and the defined visualization set are consistent with a predetermined set of part constraints corresponding to the computing execution context; and

in response to the act of automatically determining, an act of generating executable code that represents the part and which performs at least those portions of the function set that are consistent with the functional part constraints corresponding to the computing execution context, and at least those portions of the visualization set that are consistent with the visualization part constraints.