OPTIMIZED MANAGEMENT OF APPLICATION RESOURCES FOR MOBILE APPLICATIONS

• US 20200133729A1
• Filed: 10/29/2018
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP SE
• Inventors: Huang, Rita, Wang, Nathan, Hui, Ka Wing, Chan, Pak Man
• Granted Patent: US 10,831,538 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4843 by program, e.g. task dispatcher, supervisor, operating system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5011 the resources being hardware resources other than CPUs, Servers and Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/783 Distributed allocation of resources, e.g. bandwidth brokers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/803 Application aware

Abstract

Some embodiments provide a program that determines a version of a first set of application resources. The program further determines whether a version of a second set of application resources is different and compatible with the version of the first set of application resources. Upon determining that the version of the second set of application resources is different and compatible with the version of the first set of application resources, the program also uses the second set of application resources to generate visualizations of data while downloading the first set of application resources for later use. Upon determining that the version of the second set of application resources is different and not compatible with the version of the second set of application resources, the program further downloads the first set of application resources and uses the first set of application resources to generate visualizations of data.

Claims

1. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing a program executable by at least one processing unit of a mobile device, the program comprising sets of instructions for:

determining a version of a first set of application resources hosted on a computing system, the first set of application resources for a client computing device to generate visualizations of data while accessing a first application hosted on the computing system;

determining whether a version of a second set of application resources included with a second application operating on the mobile device is different and compatible with the version of the first set of application resources;

upon determining that the version of the second set of application resources is different and compatible with the version of the first set of application resources, using the second set of application resources to generate visualizations of data while downloading the first set of application resources for later use; and

upon determining that the version of the second set of application resources is different and not compatible with the version of the second set of application resources, downloading the first set of application resources and using the first set of application resources to generate visualizations of data.

2. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the downloading of the first set of application resources while using the second set of application resources to generate visualizations of data is performed in a background processing thread executing on the mobile device.

3. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the version of the second set of application resources and the version of the first set of application resources each comprises a major number, a minor number, and revision number, wherein determining that the version of the second set of application resources is different and compatible with the version of the first set of application resources comprises determining that the major numbers of the version of the second set of application resources and the version of the first set of application resources are the same;

determining that the minor numbers of the version of the second set of application resources and the version of the first set of application resources are the same; and

determining that the revision numbers of the version of the second set of application resources and the version of the first set of application resources are different.

4. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein downloading the version of the first set of application resources for later use comprises downloading a set of locations for the set of application resources and downloading each application resource in the first set of application resources from the corresponding location in the set of locations.

5. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the program further comprises sets of instructions for:

receiving a first operation that causes the application to destroy the generated visualizations of data;

receiving a second operation that causes the application to retrieve the first set of application resources that was downloaded while the second set of application resources was used to generate visualizations of data; and

generating visualizations of data using the first set of application resources.

6. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein determining the version of the first set of application resources comprises sending the computing system a request for the version of the first set of application resources and receiving from the computing system the version of the first set of application resources.

7. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the first set of application resources are downloaded from a content delivery network.

8. A method, executable by a mobile device, comprising:

determining a version of a first set of application resources hosted on a computing system, the first set of application resources for a client computing device to generate visualizations of data while accessing a first application hosted on the computing system;

determining whether a version of a second set of application resources included with a second application operating on the mobile device is different and compatible with the version of the first set of application resources;

upon determining that the version of the second set of application resources is different and compatible with the version of the first set of application resources, using the second set of application resources to generate visualizations of data while downloading the first set of application resources for later use; and

upon determining that the version of the second set of application resources is different and not compatible with the version of the second set of application resources, downloading the first set of application resources and using the first set of application resources to generate visualizations of data.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the downloading of the first set of application resources while using the second set of application resources to generate visualizations of data is performed in a background processing thread executing on the mobile device.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the version of the second set of application resources and the version of the first set of application resources each comprises a major number, a minor number, and revision number, wherein determining that the version of the second set of application resources is different and compatible with the version of the first set of application resources comprises determining that the major numbers of the version of the second set of application resources and the version of the first set of application resources are the same;

determining that the minor numbers of the version of the second set of application resources and the version of the first set of application resources are the same; and

determining that the revision numbers of the version of the second set of application resources and the version of the first set of application resources are different.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein downloading the version of the first set of application resources for later use comprises downloading a set of locations for the set of application resources and downloading each application resource in the first set of application resources from the corresponding location in the set of locations.

12. The method of claim 8 further comprising:

receiving a first operation that causes the application to destroy the generated visualizations of data;

receiving a second operation that causes the application to retrieve the first set of application resources that was downloaded while the second set of application resources was used to generate visualizations of data; and

generating visualizations of data using the first set of application resources.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein determining the version of the first set of application resources comprises sending the computing system a request for the version of the first set of application resources and receiving from the computing system the version of the first set of application resources.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the first set of application resources are downloaded from a content delivery network.

15. A mobile system comprising:

a set of processing units; and

a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions that when executed by at least one processing unit in the set of processing units cause the at least one processing unit to;

determine a version of a first set of application resources hosted on a computing system, the first set of application resources for a client computing device to generate visualizations of data while accessing a first application hosted on the computing system;

determine whether a version of a second set of application resources included with a second application operating on the mobile system is different and compatible with the version of the first set of application resources;

upon determining that the version of the second set of application resources is different and compatible with the version of the first set of application resources, use the second set of application resources to generate visualizations of data while downloading the first set of application resources for later use; and

upon determining that the version of the second set of application resources is different and not compatible with the version of the second set of application resources, download the first set of application resources and use the first set of application resources to generate visualizations of data.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the downloading of the first set of application resources while using the second set of application resources to generate visualizations of data is performed in a background processing thread executing on the mobile system.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein the version of the second set of application resources and the version of the first set of application resources each comprises a major number, a minor number, and revision number, wherein determining that the version of the second set of application resources is different and compatible with the version of the first set of application resources comprises determining that the major numbers of the version of the second set of application resources and the version of the first set of application resources are the same;

determining that the minor numbers of the version of the second set of application resources and the version of the first set of application resources are the same; and

determining that the revision numbers of the version of the second set of application resources and the version of the first set of application resources are different.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein downloading the version of the first set of application resources for later use comprises downloading a set of locations for the set of application resources and downloading each application resource in the first set of application resources from the corresponding location in the set of locations.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the instructions further cause the at least one processing unit to:

receive a first operation that causes the application to destroy the generated visualizations of data;

receive a second operation that causes the application to retrieve the first set of application resources that was downloaded while the second set of application resources was used to generate visualizations of data; and

generate visualizations of data using the first set of application resources.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein determining the version of the first set of application resources comprises sending the computing system a request for the version of the first set of application resources and receiving from the computing system the version of the first set of application resources.