System, method and computer program product for creating mobile custom views for tenants of an on-demand database service

• US 8,156,205 B1
• Filed: 01/22/2009
• Issued: 04/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Inventors: Schroeder, Jason, Kothule, Deepak, Forsberg, Eric, Mazyan, Bagrat
• Primary Examiner(s): Lazaro, David
• Assistant Examiner(s): HENRY, MARIEGEORGES A
• Application Number:
  US12/358,017
• Time in Patent Office: 1,174 Days
• Field of Search: 709/220, 707/634
• US Class Current: 709/220
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/26 Visual data mining; Browsing structured data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/74 Browsing; Visualisation therefor end-user interfaces for requesting or interacting with video content, e.g. video on demand interfaces or electronic program guides, H04N21/472
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for creating mobile custom views for tenants of an on-demand database service. These mechanisms and methods for creating mobile custom views for tenants of an on-demand database service can enable embodiments to allow tenants to create and push instructions for generating user-defined views to mobile devices, etc. The ability of embodiments to provide such feature may allow tenants to efficiently and effectively create interfaces on mobile devices.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving a command to define a view for at least one mobile device associated with at least one tenant of at least one on-demand service, the command including at least one mobilized object;

storing the mobilized object in a database of the on-demand service;

generating at least one instruction for defining the view for the at least one mobile device, the at least one instruction being based at least in part on the at least one mobilized object; and

pushing the at least one instruction for defining the view from the on-demand database service to the at least one mobile device associated with the at least one tenant;

wherein the at least one instruction includes at least one controller instruction for a user interface controller on the at least one mobile device which is executable by a processor of the at least one mobile device for defining the view of the at least one mobile device, such that in response to execution of the at least one instruction by the processor of the at least one mobile device, at least one value corresponding to one or more fields of the at least one mobilized object is provided to the mobile device by the database of the on-demand service for use by the at least one mobile device in defining the view for the at least one mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the user interface controller includes logic for displaying a user interface corresponding to the view for the at least one mobile device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one instruction is generated at the on-demand database service.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one value corresponding to the one or more fields of the at least one mobilized object is provided from a portion of storage in the database of the on-demand database service associated with the at least one tenant.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one instruction includes instructions to retrieve the at least one value corresponding to the one or more fields of the at least one mobilized object.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the at least one value corresponding to the one or more fields are retrieved from a portion of storage associated with the at least one tenant.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the at least one value is capable of being processed to provide the view for the at least one mobile device.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising displaying the view for the at least one mobile device on the mobile device.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the at least one instruction in a storage location associated with the at least one tenant.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the pushing of the at least one instruction to the at least one mobile device is performed automatically.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the pushing of the at least one instruction to the at least one mobile device is performed automatically and the pushing is triggered by the storage of the at least one instruction in the storage location associated with the at least one tenant.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one instruction includes at least one unique identifier.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the at least one unique identifier is utilized for validation of the at least one instruction.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the at least one mobile device utilizes the at least one unique identifier for performing the validation.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile device generates the at least one instruction for defining the view for the at least one mobile device.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the on-demand service includes an on-demand database service.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein the on-demand service includes a multi-tenant on-demand database service.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing one or more sequences of instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to carry out the steps of:

receiving a command to define a view for at least one mobile device associated with at least one tenant of at least one on-demand service, the command including at least one mobilized object;

storing the mobilized object in a database of the on-demand service;

generating at least one instruction for defining the view for the at least one mobile device, the at least one instruction being based at least in part on the at least one mobilized object; and

pushing the at least one instruction for defining the view from the on-demand database service to the at least one mobile device associated with the at least one tenant;

wherein the at least one instruction includes at least one controller instruction for a user interface controller on the at least one mobile device which is executable by a processor of the at least one mobile device for defining the view of the at least one mobile device, such that in response to execution of the at least one instruction by the processor of the at least one mobile device, at least one value corresponding to one or more fields of the at least one mobilized object is provided to the mobile device by the database of the on-demand service for use by the at least one mobile device in defining the view for the at least one mobile device.

19. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor; and

one or more stored sequences of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to carry out the steps of;

receiving a command to define a view for at least one mobile device associated with at least one tenant of at least one on-demand service, the command including at least one mobilized object;

storing the mobilized object in a database of the on-demand service;

generating at least one instruction for defining the view for the at least one mobile device, the at least one instruction being based at least in part on the at least one mobilized object; and

pushing the at least one instruction for defining the view from the on-demand database service to the at least one mobile device associated with the at least one tenant;

wherein the at least one instruction includes at least one controller instruction for a user interface controller on the at least one mobile device which is executable by a processor of the at least one mobile device for defining the view of the at least one mobile device, such that in response to execution of the at least one instruction by the processor of the at least one mobile device, at least one value corresponding to one or more fields of the at least one mobilized object is provided to the mobile device by the database of the on-demand service for use by the at least one mobile device in defining the view for the at least one mobile device.

20. A method for transmitting code for use in a multi-tenant database system on a transmission medium, the method comprising:

transmitting and executing code on one or more processors to perform the following method;

receiving a command to define a view for at least one mobile device associated with at least one tenant of at least one on-demand service, the command including at least one mobilized object;

storing the mobilized object in a database of the on-demand service;

generating at least one instruction for defining the view for the at least one mobile device, the at least one instruction being based at least in part on the at least one mobilized object; and

pushing the at least one instruction for defining the view from the on-demand database service to the at least one mobile device associated with the at least one tenant;

wherein the at least one instruction includes at least one controller instruction for a user interface controller on the at least one mobile device which is executable by a processor of the at least one mobile device for defining the view of the at least one mobile device, such that in response to execution of the at least one instruction by the processor of the at least one mobile device at least one value corresponding to one or more fields of the at least one mobilized object is provided to the mobile device by the database of the on-demand service for use by the at least one mobile device in defining the view for the at least one mobile device.