Efficient transform from XML to javascript objects

• US 8,219,699 B2
• Filed: 08/23/2011
• Issued: 07/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Lange, Danny, Futty, Joseph, Feniello, Ashley N., Wheeler, Graham A., Coussemaeker, Didier, Mai, Nicolas, Felon, Adrien
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Wing
• Assistant Examiner(s): Zong, Ruolei
• Application Number:
  US13/215,415
• Publication Number:
  US 20110307630A1
• Time in Patent Office: 322 Days
• Field of Search: 709/230, 709/231, 709/204, 709/238, 709/246, 709206-207, 709/203, 709/217, 709/219
• US Class Current: 709/230
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/52 Binary to binary

Abstract

This disclosure describes data conversion and techniques for sending and receiving data at a mobile device. In one implementation, a proxy server may receive data from a mobile device. The proxy server may convert the data and send the converted data to a network service. In another implementation, a mobile device may convert data and send that data to a network service. The network service may generate data in response and send that data to the mobile device directly.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of mobile communications, the method comprising:

generating, by a mobile device, an outbound data in a scripting language, the outbound data including a plurality of objects;

transforming, by the mobile device, the outbound data to transformed outbound data in a binary format language, the transformed outbound data including a header section and a data section that comprises a plurality of root nodes, the transforming of the outbound data including transforming by mapping the plurality of root nodes of the transformed outbound data to the plurality of objects of the outbound data, the header section including a string table optimizing bandwidth and memory in the transforming the outbound data, the transforming the outbound data being referenced in the string table to maintain a structure of the transformed outbound data; and

sending, by the mobile device, the transformed outbound data to a server.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the header section comprises one or more of a version and a number of strings, and the data section further comprises one or more of a type, a name, a length, and data.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving inbound data in the binary format language.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, further comprising:

consuming the inbound data on the mobile device by transforming the inbound data to the scripting language.

5. One or more memory devices encoded with instructions that, when executed by a processor of a mobile device, perform acts comprising:

receiving inbound data in a binary format language including a plurality of elements;

transforming the inbound data to transformed inbound data in a scripting language including a plurality of nodes by mapping the plurality of elements of the inbound data to the plurality of nodes of the transformed inbound data, the inbound data including a data section and a header section that includes a string table optimizing bandwidth and memory in the transforming the inbound data, the transforming the inbound data being referenced in the string table to maintain a structure of the inbound data;

generating an outbound data based on the transformed inbound data;

transforming the outbound data to a binary format language; and

transmitting the outbound data to a server.

6. The one or more memory devices of claim 5, wherein the data section comprises a plurality of nodes.

7. The one or more memory devices of claim 6, wherein the header section comprises one or more of a version and a number of strings and the data section further comprises one or more of a type, a name, a length, and data.

8. The one or more memory devices of claim 5, wherein the plurality of elements of the scripting languages comprise objects, arrays and vectors.

9. A system for mobile communications, the system comprising:

one or more processors;

memory; and

a component, stored in the memory and executable on the one or more processors, configured to;

retrieve data in a scripting language from a local storage of a mobile device;

conduct a conversion at the mobile device, the conversion transforming the data from a scripting language to a binary format language such that a plurality of nodes of the binary format language correspond to objects of the scripting language; and

transmit the transformed data to a server, the transformed data including a data section and a header section including a string table optimizing bandwidth and memory in transmission of the data between the server and the mobile device, the conversion being referenced in the string table to maintain a structure of the transformed data.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the data section comprises a root node field, a type field, and one or more of an identification (ID) field, a length field, and a data field, and the string table comprises a string-number field, a length field and a string field.