Method and apparatus for allowing runtime creation of a user experience for a wireless device

• US 7,616,131 B2
• Filed: 10/16/2006
• Issued: 11/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Mathews, Jiji, Nowlan, Steven J., Mathews, Ajit
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee; Benjamin C
• Assistant Examiner(s): Previl; Daniel
• Application Number:
  US11/549,803
• Publication Number:
  US 20080092041A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,121 Days
• Field of Search: 340/989, 340/825.22, 340/825.24, 340/825.25, 340990-9951, 340/995.16, 340/473, 340/539.1, 340/566, 340/568.8, 455/567, 715/744
• US Class Current: 340/989
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/34 Graphical or visual programming
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/36 Software reuse
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72448 with means for adapting the functionality of the device according to specific conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72463 to restrict the functionality of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

An apparatus [100] includes an application layer [205] to present an application behavior specification and a presentation specification. An engine layer [305] receives at least one input corresponding to a proposed modification to at least one of the application behavior specification and the presentation specification. A modality interface layer [215] interprets the at least one input and merges the at least one input into an output. An interaction management layer [210] (a) receives the output; (b) determines permitted modifications to the at least one of the application behavior specification and the presentation specification based on a set of pre-defined rules; and (c) generates a new application by modifying the at least one of the application behavior specification and the presentation specification at run-time based on the permitted modifications.

Claims

1. A method used in a client device, comprising:

presenting an application behavior specification and a presentation specification during run-time, wherein the application behavior specification is a user modifiable file separate from the application that allows a user to specify a behavior of the application that was not previously available from the application and the presentation specification is a user modifiable file separate from an application that allow the user to specify a presentation that was not previously available;

receiving at least one input corresponding to a proposed modification to at least one of the application behavior specification and the presentation specification;

determining permitted modifications to the at least one of the application behavior specification and the presentation specification based on a set of pre-defined rules; and

generating a new application by modifying the at least one of the application behavior specification at run-time based on the permitted modifications.

2. The method of claim 1, the method being implemented by a processing device associated with a portable wireless device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the determining comprises negotiating with a background environment in which the portable wireless device is interacting to determine the permitted modifications.

4. The method of claim 1, the at least one input being received from at least one of a background environment and a user.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising modifying a screen-flow method during the run-time.

6. The method of claim 1, the modifying comprising combining elements of multiple existing applications into the new application.

7. The method of claim 1, the modifying comprising changing at least one of a graphical modality, haptics modality, audio modality, and a text modality.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the presenting comprises displaying the application behavior specification separate from the presentation specification.

9. An apparatus, comprising:

an application layer to present an application behavior specification and a presentation specification, wherein the application behavior specification is a user modifiable file separate from the application that allows a user to specify a behavior of the application that was not previously available from the application and the presentation specification is a user modifiable file separate from an application that allow the user to specify a presentation that was not previously available;

an engine layer to receive at least one input corresponding to a proposed modification to at least one of the application behavior specification and the presentation specification;

a modality interface layer to interpret the at least one input and merge the at least one input into an output; and

an interaction management layer to;

receive the output,

determine permitted modifications to the at least one of the application behavior specification and the presentation specification based on a set of pre-defined rules, and

generate a new application by modifying the at least one of the application behavior specification at run-time based on the permitted modifications.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the apparatus comprises a portable wireless device.

11. The apparatus of claim 9, further comprising an interface element to receive the at least one input from at least one of a background environment and a user.

12. The apparatus of claim 9, further comprising a display to display the application behavior specification separate from the presentation specification.

13. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the new application comprises a modification of at least one of a graphical modality, haptics modality, audio modality, and a text modality.

14. A system, comprising:

a portable wireless device being adapted to;

present an application behavior specification and a presentation specification, wherein the application behavior specification is a user modifiable file separate from the application that allows a user to specify a behavior of the application that was not previously available from the application and the presentation specification is a user modifiable file separate from an application that allow the user to specify a presentation that was not previously available,

receive at least one input corresponding to a proposed modification to at least one of the application behavior specification and the presentation specification,

determine permitted modifications to the at least one of the application behavior specification and the presentation specification based on a set of pre-defined rules, and

generate a new application by modifying the at least one of the application behavior specification and the presentation specification at run-time based on the permitted modifications; and

at least one entity to provide the at least one input corresponding to a proposed modification to at least one of the application behavior specification.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the at least one entity is at least one of a user and a background environment.

16. The system of claim 14, the portable wireless device further comprising an interface element to receive the at least one input from the at least one entity.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the new application comprises a modification of at least one of a graphical modality, haptics modality, audio modality, and a text modality.