Server method and system for rendering content on a wireless device

• US 8,103,865 B2
• Filed: 08/01/2007
• Issued: 01/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GoTV Streaming, LLC (Pratima Instruments, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Phunware, Inc.
• Inventors: Carion, Pierre, Smith, Kevin
• Primary Examiner(s): Suryawanshi, Suresh
• Application Number:
  US11/888,799
• Publication Number:
  US 20090037724A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,637 Days
• Field of Search: 713/100
• US Class Current: 713/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/452 Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading

Abstract

A server implemented method for processing data for a wireless device. The server in response to a user request executes an application program for generating content for rendering on the wireless device where the content is wireless device generic. A first screen description based on the content and a device profile of the wireless device is generated. The device profile may describe a rendering capability of the wireless device. The first screen may be in a syntax generic format independent of the wireless device type and describe relative screen location and display object size information independent of screen dimensions. The first screen is translated into a second screen description that includes discrete low level rendering commands within the rendering capability of the wireless device that is syntax generic. Low level rendering commands include physical screen positions of display elements. The translated second screen is then transmitted to the wireless device.

Claims

1. A server implemented method for processing data for a wireless device, comprising:

receiving from the wireless device a request for an application program, said request including an indication of a type of the wireless device;

executing, in response to receiving said request, said application program to generate a wireless device generic template including a plurality of content items;

sending a custom configuration to the wireless device, said custom configuration being specific to said application program;

generating a page description based on said wireless device generic template and a capability of the wireless device, said page description having at least one discrete low level rendering command that is within said rendering capability of said wireless device but that is of a syntax that is wireless device generic; and

sending said page description to the wireless device such that the wireless device is capable of presenting at least one content item from said plurality of content items using both said page description and said custom configuration.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said wireless device generic template includes relative screen location and display object size information and is independent of screen dimensions of the wireless device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said wireless device generic template is substantially compliant with extensible markup language (XML) syntax.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said at least one discrete low level rendering command of said page description is operable to be executed by a plurality of rendering blocks of a graphical user interface of the wireless device.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein said at least one discrete low level rendering command includes a physical screen position of a display element of said at least one content item.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein said at least one discrete low level rendering command includes:

a specification of a location and a size of a screen area; and

an identification of a rendering block from said plurality of rendering blocks of said graphical user interface to operate within said screen area.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein said at least one discrete low level rendering command includes parameters associated with said rendering block from said plurality of rendering blocks.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said page description includes at least one display rendering command and at least one audio rendering command.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said application program is wireless device generic and said wireless device generic template is a wireless device generic page description template.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the wireless device is operable to configure a plurality of rendering blocks of a graphical user interface based on said custom configuration.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein said server stores a plurality of device profiles, said method further comprises:

identifying a device profile from said plurality of device profiles associated with the wireless device based on said type of said wireless device.

31. The method of claim 1, wherein the sending the custom configuration to the wireless device is in response to receiving an indication from the wireless device that the custom configuration is not stored at the wireless device.

32. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating said page description includes generating said such that said page description does not include a content item from said plurality of content items, said content item being unsupported by the wireless device.

33. The method of claim 1, wherein said plurality of content items is a first plurality of content items, said page description being a first page description, the method further comprising:

receiving an indication that said custom configuration is stored on the wireless device; and

sending a second page description associated with a second plurality of content items to the wireless device such that the wireless device is capable of is configured to presenting said second plurality of content items using said second page description and said custom configuration.

12. A non-transitory processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions to cause a processor to:

receive a request for an application program from a wireless device, said request including an indication of a type of the wireless device;

execute said application program to generate a wireless device generic template including a plurality of content items;

request, using said indication of said type of the wireless device, a device profile from a library of device profiles, said device profile providing an indication of a rendering capability of the wireless device;

eliminate, using said device profile, at least one content item from said plurality of content items from said wireless device generic template to define a device specific template associated with the wireless device, said at least one content item being unsupported by the wireless device;

translate said device specific template into a page description having at least one discrete low level rendering command that is within said rendering capability of the wireless device but that is of a syntax that is wireless device generic; and

send said page description to the wireless device.

13. The non-transitory processor-readable medium of claim 12, wherein said wireless device generic template contains relative screen location and display object size information independent of screen dimensions of the wireless device.

14. The non-transitory processor-readable medium of claim 12, wherein said wireless device generic template is substantially compliant with extensible markup language (XML) syntax.

15. The non-transitory processor-readable medium of claim 12, wherein said at least one discrete low level rendering command of said page description is operable to be executed by a plurality of rendering blocks of a graphical user interface of the wireless device.

16. The non-transitory processor-readable medium of claim 15, wherein said at least one discrete low level rendering command includes a physical screen position of a display element of a content item from the plurality of content items.

17. The non-transitory processor-readable medium of claim 15, wherein said at least one discrete low level rendering command includes:

a specification of a location and a size of a screen area; and

an identification of a rendering block from said plurality of rendering blocks of said graphical user interface.

18. The non-transitory processor-readable medium of claim 17, wherein said at least one discrete low level rendering command includes at least one parameter associated with said rendering block from said plurality of rendering blocks.

19. The non-transitory processor-readable medium of claim 12, wherein said page description includes at least one display rendering command and at least one audio rendering command.

20. The non-transitory processor-readable medium of claim 12, further comprising code representing instructions to cause said processor to:

send, in response to said request, a custom configuration to said wireless device, the wireless device is operable to configure a plurality of rendering blocks of graphical user interface based on said custom configuration.

34. The non-transitory processor-readable medium of claim 12, further comprising code representing instructions to cause the processor to:

send a custom configuration to the wireless device, said custom configuration being specific to said application program, the wireless device operable to present a content item from said plurality of content items using said page description and said custom configuration.

21. A server system, comprising:

a memory; and

a processor operable to execute an application program that generates content for rendering on a wireless device, said content being wireless device generic, said processor being operable to implement;

a device profile library operable to store a device profile describing a rendering capability of the wireless device;

a decoding system operable to send to the wireless device a custom configuration associated with said application program in response to receiving an indication from the wireless device that said custom configuration is not stored on the wireless device;

a template engine operable to generate a template based on said content and based on said device profile of the wireless device; and

a screen layout translator to translate said template into a page description having at least one discrete low level rendering command that is within said rendering capability of the wireless device but that is of a syntax that is wireless device generic, said screen layout translator operable to send said page description and said custom configuration to the wireless device such that the wireless device is capable of presenting said content using both said page description and said custom configuration.

22. The server system of claim 21, wherein said template includes relative screen location and display object size information and is independent of screen dimensions of the wireless device.

23. The server system of claim 21, wherein said template is substantially compliant with extensible markup language (XML) syntax.

24. The server system of claim 21, wherein said at least one discrete low level rendering command of said page description is operable to be executed by a plurality of rendering blocks of a graphical user interface of the wireless device.

25. The server system of claim 24, wherein said at least one discrete low level rendering command includes a physical screen position of a display element of said content.

26. The server system of claim 24, wherein said at least one discrete low level rendering command includes:

a specification of a location and a size of a screen area; and

an identification of a rendering block from said plurality of rendering blocks of said graphical user interface.

27. The server system of claim 26, wherein said at least one discrete low level rendering command includes at least one parameter associated with said rendering block from said plurality of rendering blocks.

28. The server system of claim 21, wherein said page description includes at least one display rendering command and at least one audio rendering command.

29. The server system of claim 21, wherein said custom configuration is operable to configure a plurality of rendering blocks of a graphical user interface of the wireless device.

30. The server system of claim 21 wherein said memory includes a plurality of device profiles, said processor is operable to receive an identification of a type of the wireless device and is operable to identify said device profile from said plurality of device profiles based on said type of the wireless device.