WEB-APPLICATION-LAUNCH APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES

• US 20190012187A1
• Filed: 09/30/2015
• Published: 01/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Inventors: Picard, Jean-Charles, Dias Vaz, Jean Michel
• Granted Patent: US 10,642,629 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44526 Plug-ins; Add-ons
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

A web-application-launch application programming interface (API) component is disclosed for integration to a web application executable at a client. The web-application-launch API component comprises a launch services module to manage execution of a launch of a web application external to the web application. Execution of the launch of the external web application is called by a component of the web application. The web-application-launch API component further comprises an API specifying a launch-definition format applicable to a launch to be executed by a launch services module. A launch definition according to the specified launch-definition format includes a launch argument comprising a list of keywords. The launch services module comprises a keyword-resolution module. The keyword-resolution module of the launch services module is responsive to a call for execution of a launch to resolve, dynamically, the keywords of the launch argument in the launch definition of the called launch. The launch services module comprises an execution portion to implement execution of a called launch. The launch is executed at the client in accordance with the keywords in the launch argument of the called launch as resolved by the keyword-resolution module when execution of the launch is called.

Claims

1. A web-application-launch application programming interface (API) component for integration to a web application executable at a client, the web-application-launch API component comprising:

an API specifying a launch-definition format applicable to a launch of a web application external to the host web application, wherein a launch definition according to the specified launch-definition format includes a launch argument comprising a list of keywords; and

a launch services module to manage execution of the launch at the client, the launch services module comprising;

a keyword-resolution module, responsive to a call for execution of a launch, to resolve the keywords of the launch argument in the launch definition of the called launch dynamically, and

an execution module to implement execution of a called launch, the execution being performed in accordance with the keywords in the launch argument of the called launch as resolved by the keyword-resolution module when execution of the launch is called.

2. The web-application-launch API component according to claim 1, wherein:

the API specifies a launch-definition format wherein the launch argument of a launch definition comprises a list of global keywords, and the resolution module of the launch services module comprises a global keyword resolution module to inquire an extension directory to find a value of the global keyword(s) in the launch definition of a launch called by a component of the web application.

3. The web-application-launch API component according to claim 2, wherein:

the global-keyword resolution module is responsive to initialization of the host web application to inquire the extension directory.

4. The web-application-launch API component according to claim 3, further comprising the extension directory.

5. The web-application-launch API component according to claim 2, wherein:

the API specifies a launch-definition format wherein the launch argument of a launch definition comprises a list of global and contextual keywords, and the resolution module of the launch services module comprises a contextual-keyword resolution module to retrieve, from a component of the host application calling for execution of a launch, a value of the contextual keyword(s) in the launch definition of the called launch.

6. The web-application-launch API component according to claim 1, wherein:

the API specifies a launch-definition format wherein a launch definition comprises a list of tags, and

the launch services module comprises a search module to identify an available launch by matching the list of tags in the launch definition of the launch to a list of tags received from a component of the host web application, and to inform the component sending the list of tags of the available launch.

7. The web-application launch API component according to claim 1, wherein the launch argument is a URL launch argument for launching an external or internal URL.

8. The web-application launch API component according to claim 1, wherein the launch argument is a code launch argument for launching an action external to the host web application.

9. The web-application launch API component according to claim 1, wherein the launch argument is a code launch argument for launching an action internal to the host web application.

10. A web-application-launch system comprising:

a component, in a first web application;

a launch-definition module to provide a launch-definition of a launch, of a second web application, available to be called for execution by the component, the launch-definition including a list of identifiers of launch keywords; and

a launch manager responsive to issuance, by the component, of a call for execution of a launch to perform dynamic assignment of values to the launch keywords identified by the launch keyword identifiers in the launch definition of the called launch.

11. The web-application-launch system according to claim 10, wherein:

the launch definition module comprises a module to access a stored launch definition comprising a list of global and contextual keywords, the global and contextual keywords constituting said identifiers of launch keywords, and

the launch manager comprises a keyword-resolution module to assign values to the contextual keywords in the launch-definition of a called launch, the value assigned to a contextual keyword being the value of the corresponding launch keyword as applicable when execution of the launch is called by the component of the first web application.

12. The web-application-launch system according to claim 10, further comprising a server, wherein the server comprises the stored launch definition with the list of global and contextual keywords and the component is to call a service at the server to access the list.

13. A non-transitory computer readable medium including machine readable instructions that when executed by a client computer perform internally or externally execution of a launch of a web application external to a host web application, responsive to a call for execution of the launch by a component of the host web application, the instructions comprising instructions to:

provide the component selectable at the host web application capable of calling for execution of the launch of the external web application;

obtain a launch-definition of the launch of the external web application, the launch-definition including a list of contextual launch-keyword identifiers;

dynamically replace the list of contextual launch-keyword identifiers in the launch-definition of a called launch by a list of corresponding values, the value used to replace a contextual launch-keyword identifier being the value of the corresponding launch keyword as applicable when execution of the launch is called by the component of the host web application; and

execute the called launch using launch keyword values defined by the list of values.

14. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 13, wherein:

the instructions to obtain a launch-definition comprise instructions to obtain a launch-definition including a list of global launch-keyword identifiers and a list of contextual launch-keyword identifiers, and

there are further provided instructions to dynamically replace the list of global launch-keyword identifiers in the launch-definition of a called launch by a list of corresponding values, the value used to replace a global launch-keyword identifier being identified by inquiring an extension directory.

15. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 13, wherein:

the instructions to dynamically replace the list of global launch-keyword identifiers in the launch-definition comprise instructions to perform an inquiry in the extension directory responsive to initialization of the host web application.