APPLICATION DEVELOPING METHOD AND SYSTEM

• US 20170199729A1
• Filed: 01/04/2017
• Published: 07/13/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chen-Chung Yeh
• Original Assignee: Chen-Chung Yeh
• Inventors: YEH, Chen-Chung
• Granted Patent: US 10,649,743 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/35 model driven
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/36 Software reuse

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to an electronic application developing method. The method comprises providing a development platform with a plurality of cross-industry application templates. Users can design applications and plan business processes via the development platform efficiently without building any infrastructure or writing any programming code.

Claims

1. An electronic application developing method, implemented on one or more computers, comprising:

providing via one or more computing devices an electronic application development platform comprising one or more application template libraries comprising a plurality of application templates; and

developing an electronic application using the development platform via the one or more computing devices,

wherein no further development of application infrastructures or software coding is required.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

collecting via the one or more computing devices one or more application requirements, comprising one or more industry category requirements, one or more size of market requirements, one or more functional requirements and one or more non-functional requirements using a set of dynamic programming logic instructions; and

determining via the one or more computing devices an optimal application template in the plurality of application templates that best satisfies the application requirements by using one or more association rules.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

automatically including the electronic application in the one or more application template libraries

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the development platform further comprises:

a first portion comprising one or more standard elements; and

a second portion comprising one or more application variables.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising

deploying the developed electronic application without publishing.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the one or more standard elements further comprise:

one or more application presentation logics, one or more database access logics, and one or more server controls.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein each of the one or more application variables is defined by a data storage format, and the one or more application variables further comprises:

one or more page basic information variables, one or more page layout variables, one or more control element variables, one or more object caption variables, one or more data source variables and one or more workflow variables.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein each of the one or more page basic information variables defines the basic framework of a corresponding page of the electronic application and further comprises:

a title, one or more page footers, one or more style sheets and one or more types.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein each of the one or more page layout variables defines one or more objects used on a corresponding page of the electronic application, configurations corresponding to the one or more objects, and types of controls corresponding to the one or more objects, and overwrite native properties of controls or alternatively authorizes controls according to the one or more requirements of the electronic application.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein each of the one or more control element variables defines one or more standard objects of the electronic application and further comprising one of the following:

a size of control, a maximum length of control and a format of control.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein each of the one or more object caption variables establishes a title of a corresponding object, wherein the title supports multiple written languages.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the title is associated with the object by an identifier, wherein the specific language of the title can be changed in accordance with the specific language of the object by using the identifier.

13. The method of claim 7, wherein each of the one or more data source variables defines one or more data sources related to the business logics of the electronic application and further comprises:

one or more data tables, one or more data fields, one or more data conditions and one or more data sorts.

14. The method of claim 7, wherein each of the one or more workflow variables defines the algorithm logics of the electronic application in accordance with the business logics of the electronic application and further comprises:

a type of workflow, one or more steps of workflow, one or more execution conditions and one or more execution functions.

15. The method of claim 4, further comprising encapsulating all of the standard elements internally within the development platform.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising providing a visual interface without the need to install an operating system, a database server or an application server to build the electronic application.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the visual interface is capable of performing the following steps:

selecting an application template from the plurality of application templates;

designing a business process;

designing a workflow;

building a database; and

designing layouts of pages.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the visual interface further supports a debugging mode, which provides instant viewing of logic errors of application parameters on the development platform, and direct performance of unit testing of the electronic application.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for storing instructions performing any one of methods of claim 1.

20. An electronic application developing system, comprising:

the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 19; and

one or more processors and related computing devices configured to perform instructions stored on the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium.