System and method for dynamic creation and customization of a user interface in a web service environment

• US 8,122,365 B2
• Filed: 02/23/2007
• Issued: 02/21/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/23/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Infosys Technologies Limited (Infosys Limited)
• Original Assignee: Infosys Technologies Limited (Infosys Limited)
• Inventors: Padmanabhuni, Srinivas, Kunti, Krishnendu, Chaudhuri, Anshuk Chinmoy Pal, Bharti, Shaurabh
• Primary Examiner(s): HAILU, TADESSE
• Application Number:
  US11/709,889
• Publication Number:
  US 20070209011A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,824 Days
• Field of Search: 715760-765, 715/781, 715/788, 715/840, 715/854, 709/217, 709/227, 709/229
• US Class Current: 715/760
• 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 21/31 User authentication
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2119 Authenticating web pages, e.g. with suspicious links
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles

Abstract

A method, system, and computer program product for dynamic creation and customization of a user interface in a web service environment, including dynamically generating and customizing a portlet; providing policy based access to the portlet depending on a consumer of the portlet; providing caching or cache refreshing of a feed to the portlet; and providing authentication of a consumer of the portlet.

Claims

1. A method for dynamic creation and customization of a user interface in a web service environment, the method comprising:

using a portlet producer having a processor and a network interface to receive a standardized data feed from a server, wherein the portlet producer dynamically generates, without user input, a customized portlet depending on user credentials and specific user requirements of a consumer stored in a configuration file, wherein the portlet producer manipulates at least a portion of the standardized data feed into a modified form to be displayed in the customized portlet in compliance with at least the specific user requirements in the configuration file;

providing policy based access to the customized portlet depending on information in the configuration file containing the user credentials and the specific user requirements of the consumer; and

providing caching or cache refreshing of at least a portion of the standardized data feed from the server.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the consumer includes a portal or an individual accessing the portlet.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the feed includes a XML feed.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the feed includes a RSS feed.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

using the portlet producer, providing a customized user interface for the consumer of the portlet.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising providing a meta layer for generation of markup from the feed for providing the customized user interface.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising employing a WSRP standard to allow the consumer to consume the portlet based on a Web services interface.

22. The method of claim 1, where said configuration file includes the web services the user would like to use.

23. The method of claim 22, where said configuration file may be set to automatically search for new and similar web services related to those that the user would like to use.

8. A computer apparatus for dynamic creation and customization of a user interface in a web service environment, the apparatus comprising:

a portlet producer having a network interface to receive a standardized data feed from a server, the portlet producer configured to dynamically generate without user input a user defined customized portlet in compliance with user credentials and specified user requirements of a consumer stored in a configuration file, wherein the portlet producer manipulates at least a portion of the standardized data feed into a modified form in the customized portlet based on the configuration file;

a mechanism for policy based access to the customized portlet depending on information in the configuration file containing the user credentials and the specific user requirements of the consumer; and

a mechanism for caching or cache refreshing at least a portion of the received standardized data feed from the server.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the consumer includes a portal or an individual accessing the portlet.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the feed includes a XML feed.

11. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the feed includes a RSS feed.

12. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the portlet producer is further configured to provide a customized user interface for the consumer of the portlet.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, further comprising a meta layer for generation of markup from the feed for providing the customized user interface.

14. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein a WSRP standard is employed to allow the consumer to consume the portlet based on a Web services interface.

24. The apparatus of claim 8, where said configuration file includes the web services the user would like to use.

25. The apparatus of claim 24, where said configuration file may be set to automatically search for new and similar web services related to those that the user would like to use.

15. A computer storage device tangibly embodying a plurality of instructions on a computer readable medium for dynamic creation and customization of a user interface in a web service environment, wherein the instructions are executed by a machine to perform a method comprising the steps of:

dynamically generating without user input a customized portlet depending on at least user credentials and specific user requirements of a consumer stored in a configuration file;

receiving a standardized data feed from a server;

manipulating at least a portion of the standardized data feed into a modified form in compliance with the customized portlet based on the configuration file, wherein the modified data feed is to be displayed in the customized portlet on a client device;

providing policy based access to the customized portlet depending on information in the configuration file containing the at least the user credentials and the specific user requirements of the consumer; and

providing caching or cache refreshing of at least a portion of the standardized data feed from the server.

16. The computer storage device of claim 15, wherein the consumer includes a portal or an individual accessing the portlet.

17. The computer storage device of claim 15, wherein the feed includes a XML feed.

18. The computer storage device of claim 15, wherein the feed includes a RSS feed.

19. The computer storage device of claim 15, further comprising providing a customized user interface for the consumer of the portlet.

20. The computer storage device of claim 19, further comprising providing a meta layer for generation of markup from the feed for providing the customized user interface.

21. The computer storage device of claim 15, further comprising employing a WSRP standard to allow the consumer to consume the portlet based on a Web services interface.

26. The computer storage device of claim 15, where said configuration file includes the web services the user would like to use.

27. The computer storage device of claim 26, where said configuration file may be set to automatically search for new and similar web services related to those that the user would like to use.