MECHANISMS TO SUPPORT MULTI-SERVICE HYPERLINK PIPELINES IN WEB BROWSER

• US 20160357715A1
• Filed: 06/03/2015
• Published: 12/08/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/03/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Futurewei Technologies Incorporated (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Futurewei Technologies Incorporated (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: CHOU, Wu, LI, Li, CAI, Tao
• Application Number:
  US14/729,755
• Publication Number:
  US 20160357715A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications

Abstract

A multi-service hyperlink pipeline model and system is proposed herein that allows a website to associate and present a plurality of service templates and custom JavaScript functions with a single resource in HTML documents and users to combine a service template with hyperlinks to form hyperlink pipelines and execute a hyperlink pipeline to automatically invoke the custom JavaScript functions.

Claims

1. A method performed in a computing system for constructing a hyperlink pipeline, the method comprising:

displaying a webpage in a web browser executed by a processor in a client computing device;

receiving a first hyperlink corresponding to a service function;

in response to receiving the first hyperlink, generating a service method in the processor based on the service function;

receiving a second hyperlink corresponding to the service method;

receiving a signal indicative of executing the service method in the processor of the client computing device;

determining, in the processor, when the service method comprises a custom JavaScript function;

sending a combination of the first hyperlink and the second hyperlink to a remote server for execution when the service method does not comprise a custom JavaScript function;

when the service method is determined to comprise a custom JavaScript function,

determining a value of an argument corresponding to the custom JavaScript; and

evaluating the custom JavaScript function based on the value.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein sending the combination of the first hyperlink and the second hyperlink to the remote service comprises:

receiving an execution of the first and second hyperlinks from the remote server; and

displaying the execution in web browser.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein evaluating the custom JavaScript function comprises:

validating the value of the argument in the processor;

executing the JavaScript function in the processor; and

displaying an execution of the JavaScript function in the web browser.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein executing the JavaScript function comprises executing the JavaScript function with the processor through an application programming interface (API) of the web browser.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the first hyperlink comprises determining a first signal via a user input device communicatively coupled to the client computing device, the first signal being indicative of a selection of the first hyperlink in the webpage.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein receiving the second hyperlink comprises determining a second signal via the user input device, the second signal being indicative of a selection of the second hyperlink in the webpage.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first hyperlink comprises a parameter of the service function.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the service method comprises an instance of the service function.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein generating the service method comprises

generating the service method as an instance of the service function using the first hyperlink as a first argument;

and

displaying a graphical representation of the service method in the web browser.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein receiving the second hyperlink comprises receiving the second hyperlink as a second argument of the service method.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the service function is an element of a Unified Markup Language (UML) class.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the service function comprises a document object model (DOM) element.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the first hyperlink and the second hyperlink is implemented using HTML programming code.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein a plurality of properties of the first hyperlink and the second hyperlink are implemented as a plurality of annotations embedded in the HTML programming code comprising the first and second hyperlinks.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the plurality of annotations comprise portions of Microdata+ programming language.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first web resource and the second web resource have a corresponding state.

17. The method of claim 17, wherein sending a combination of the first hyperlink and the second hyperlink to a remote server for execution when the service method does not comprise a custom JavaScript function comprises at least one of:

executing a call-by-reference function; and

executing a call-by-value function.

18. A client computing device comprising:

a network device for communicatively coupling the client computing device with a remote server;

a memory device for storing programmed instructions;

a user input device configured to receive a signal; and

a processor configured to execute a web browser from the programmed instructions, the web browser being configured to receive, via the user input device, a selection of a hyperlinks accessible through a web page communicated through the network device,

wherein, the processor is further configured to generate an instance of a service function based on the selection of the hyperlinks, to determine if the instance of the service function comprises a custom JavaScript function, and to send a combination of the first and second hyperlinks to the remote server for execution when the service function does not comprise a custom JavaScript function.

19. The client computing device of claim 18, wherein the processor is further configured to determine a value of an argument corresponding to a custom JavaScript function, and to evaluate the custom JavaScript function based on the value when the instance of the service function is determined to comprise a custom JavaScript function.

20. A server computing device comprising:

a network device for communicatively coupling the server computing device with a remote client device;

a memory device for storing programmed instructions corresponding to a plurality of network resources;

a signal communication interface configured to receive a signal from the remote client device, the signal corresponding to a selection of hyperlinks; and

a processor configured to generate an instance of a service function based on the selection of the hyperlinks, to determine if the instance of the service function comprises a custom JavaScript function, and to construct a new executable hyperlink pipeline comprising a combination of the first and second hyperlinks when the service function does not comprise a custom JavaScript function,