GENERATING A SERVICES APPLICATION

• US 20170286069A1
• Filed: 03/29/2016
• Published: 10/05/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Karunakaran, Rajeev
• Granted Patent: US 11,487,512 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2452 Query translation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/35 model driven

Abstract

Technologies are described herein for generating a service application. A service application generator can be used to generate a service application upon receiving a prompt to generate the service application. The service application generator can interface with a user or other entity to determine information used to build a service application.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, the method comprising:

receiving an intent;

defining an application function for the intent;

receiving a location in the application function to input an entity associated with the intent, wherein the application function comprises information about

a data source having information about the entity, and

a data communication path defining a communication pathway to the data source;

receiving a value path defining a data location of the data source to provide data to service a query; and

generating the service application using the intent, the entity, the data communication path, and the value path, wherein the service application is configured to service the query.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, where the value path identifies a value.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a template input to define a response format to display a result of servicing the query by the service application.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the value path is provided using a JSON format or XML format.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the intent is derived from the query.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the intent is derived using a natural language service.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising associating the intent with an intent handler that specifies how to process the intent using the entity.

8. A computer-readable storage medium having computer readable instructions stored thereupon that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

receive an intent;

define an application function for the intent;

receive a location in the application function to input an entity associated with the intent, wherein the application function comprises information about

a data source having information about the entity, and

a data communication path defining a communication pathway to the data source;

receive a value path defining a data location of the data source to provide data to service a query; and

generate the service application using the intent, the entity, the data communication path, and the value path, wherein the service application is configured to service the query.

9. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, where the value path identifies a value.

10. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the computer readable instructions further comprising instructions receive a template input to define a response format to display a result of servicing the query by the service application.

11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the value path is provided using a JSON format or XML format.

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the intent is derived from the query.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the intent is derived using a natural language service.

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, further comprising computer readable instructions to associate the intent with an intent handler that specifies how to process the intent using the entity.

15. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a computer-readable storage medium in communication with the processor, the computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereupon which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to

initiate a user interface having inputs for

an intent,

an entity,

a uniform resource locator (URL) to a service,

and at least one value path, and

generate a service application using the intent, the entity, the URL to the service, and the at least one value path.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the intent is received from a natural language service analyzing a query.

17. The system of claim 15, further comprising computer-executable instructions to:

receive a query;

determine if a second service application is available to handle the query; and

if in response to determining that the second service application is not available to handle the query, initiate the user interface.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the value path is populated by a selection of an object provided by the service.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the service is a RESTful service returns results in JSON format.

20. The system of claim 15, further comprising computer-executable instructions to provide an output corresponding to a value associated with the at least one value path in response to receiving a query.