Unified mobile display emulator

• US 7,545,386 B2
• Filed: 12/07/2006
• Issued: 06/09/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sigos, LLC
• Original Assignee: Mobile Complete, Inc. (Dynatrace, Inc.)
• Inventors: Marsyla, David John, Syed, Faraz Ali
• Primary Examiner(s): Sajous; Wesner
• Application Number:
  US11/636,265
• Publication Number:
  US 20080140380A1
• Time in Patent Office: 915 Days
• Field of Search: 345/422, 345/581, 345589-591, 345600-604, 345/522, 345/549, 345/690, 345/204, 345545-546, 348/441, 348/467, 348557-558, 358/512, 358/515, 358/518, 358/523, 358 115- 117, 709/201, 709/217, 709218-219, 703/13, 703/23, 703/26, 382/162, 382/167, 382/293, 382/295
• US Class Current: 345/600
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

The conversion of Mobile Display information used in a wide variety of Mobile Devices into Unified Image Formats is disclosed to enable viewing on a desktop computer system in addition to manual and automated testing of Mobile Content. In order to support the variety of Mobile Displays available, and to process the Mobile Display information in real-time, a configurable emulation system may be employed to model the Image Commands being used for each type of available Mobile Display. This emulation system can then provide a representative view of the image as it would be displayed on the Mobile Display, but in a format that can be utilized by other manual or automated systems.

Claims

1. A method for converting mobile display information into a unified image format for testing of mobile content, comprising:

receiving data from communications between a mobile operating system and a mobile display;

identifying a type of mobile display;

determining if the data represents visual image information or instruction information;

if the data represents instruction information, identifying and extracting the instruction information from the data; and

if the data represents visual image information,

placing the visual image information at a correct coordinate location in an image memory format buffer,

converting the visual image information into a particular color format, and

converting the visual image information into a particular color depth.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising filtering out any information in the data that is not relevant to displaying a mobile device image.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising re-ordering the data so that it matches a standard integer value format used by general purpose computers.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising converting the data to parallel data if the data is serial data.

5. A computer-readable medium comprising program code for converting mobile display information into a unified image format for testing of mobile content, the program code for causing performance of a method comprising:

receiving data from communications between a mobile operating system and a mobile display;

identifying a type of mobile display;

determining if the data represents visual image information or instruction information;

if the data represents instruction information, identifying and extracting the instruction information from the data; and

if the data represents visual image information,

placing the visual image information at a correct coordinate location in an image memory format buffer,

converting the visual image information into a particular color format, and

converting the visual image information into a particular color depth.

6. The computer-readable medium of claim 5, the method further comprising filtering out any information in the data that is not relevant to displaying a mobile device image.

7. The computer-readable medium of claim 5, the method further comprising re-ordering the data so that it matches a standard integer value format used by general purpose computers.

8. The computer-readable medium of claim 5, the method further comprising converting the data to parallel data if the data is serial data.

9. A system for converting mobile display information into a unified image format for testing of mobile content, comprising:

means for receiving data from communications between a mobile operating system and a mobile display;

means for identifying a type of mobile display;

means for determining if the data represents visual image information or instruction information;

means for, if the data represents instruction information, identifying and extracting the instruction information from the data; and

means for, if the data represents visual image information,

placing the visual image information at a correct coordinate location in an image memory format buffer,

converting the visual image information into a particular color format, and

converting the visual image information into a particular color depth.

10. The system of claim 9, further comprising means for filtering out any information in the data that is not relevant to displaying a mobile device image.

11. The system of claim 9, further comprising means for re-ordering the data so that it matches a standard integer value format used by general purpose computers.

12. The system of claim 9, further comprising means for converting the data to parallel data if the data is serial data.