Web application framework method enabling the creation of applications that provide an interface with clients that is independent of scripting capability

• US 8,458,246 B2
• Filed: 06/29/2009
• Issued: 06/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Guney, Ergin, Fresko, Nedim
• Primary Examiner(s): Park, Jeong S
• Application Number:
  US12/493,377
• Publication Number:
  US 20100100585A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,436 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/217, 707/694, 707/695, 717168-173
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles

Abstract

An improved web application framework methodology enables the creation of web applications which can respond to client requests in a fashion that results in rendering which appears on the client to be independent of scripting capability.

Claims

1. A method of interfacing a server with a client from among a plurality of clients, the method comprising:

receiving on the server a request from a user interactive component of a data set stored on the client;

if the request is from a version of the user interactive component having a markup instruction set, then sending to the client as a response to the request an updated version of the data set;

if the request is from a version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set plus a script instruction set, then sending to the client as the response to the request a communication that is less than the entirety of the data set;

responsive to the request, changing a state of a variable from one state to another state;

when the request is from the version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set, providing as part of the updated version of the data set an alternate version of the user interactive component reflective of the another state of the variable; and

when the request is from the version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set plus the script instruction set, providing as the response a confirmation of the another state of the variable.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving:

an http POST request when the request is from the version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set, and

an XMLhttpRequest when the request is from the version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set plus the script instruction set.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the request from the version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set plus the script instruction set is a request to change a state variable from one state to another, and wherein said communication that is less than the entirety of the data set is a confirmation that the request to change the state variable is successful.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the request from the version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set is an http POST request and the request from the version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set plus the script instruction set is an XMLhttpRequest.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the data set is web content and the version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set does not have a script instruction set.

6. The method of claim 3 wherein the request from the version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set is an http POST request and the request from the version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set plus the script instruction set is an XMLhttpRequest.

7. A server structured to interface with a client from among a plurality of clients, the server comprising:

a processor; and

a memory having stored therein instructions which, when executed on the processor, cause the server to perform operations comprising;

receiving a request from a user interactive component of a data set stored on the client;

if the request is from a version of the user interactive component having a markup instruction set, then sending to the client as a response to the request an updated version of the data set;

if the request is from a version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set plus a script instruction set, then sending to the client as the response to the request a communication that is less than the entirety of the data set;

responsive to the request, changing a state of a variable from one state to another state;

when the request is from the version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set, providing as part of the updated version of the data set an alternate version of the user interactive component reflective of the another state of the variable; and

when the request is from the version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set plus the script instruction set, providing as the response a confirmation of the another state of the variable.

8. The server of claim 7 wherein the operations further comprise receiving:

an http POST request when the request is from the version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set, and

an XMLhttpRequest when the request is from the version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set plus the script instruction set.

9. The server of claim 7 wherein the request from the version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set plus the script instruction set is a request to change a state variable from one state to another, and wherein said communication that is less than the entirety of the data set is a confirmation that the request to change the state variable is successful.

10. The server of claim 7 wherein the data set is web content and the version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set does not have a script instruction set.

11. The server of claim 9 wherein the request from the version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set is an http POST request and the request from the version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set plus the script instruction set is an XMLhttpRequest.

12. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium having stored thereon instructions which, when executed on a processor of a server that is structured to interface with a client from among a plurality of clients, cause the server to perform operations comprising:

receiving a request from a user interactive component of a data set stored on the client;

if the request is from a version of the user interactive component having a markup instruction set, then sending to the client as a response to the request an updated version of the data set;

if the request is from a version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set plus a script instruction set, then sending to the client as the response to the request a communication that is less than the entirety of the data set;

responsive to the request, changing a state of a variable from one state to another state;

when the request is from the version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set, providing as part of the updated version of the data set an alternate version of the user interactive component reflective of the another state of the variable; and

when the request is from the version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set plus the script instruction set, providing as the response a confirmation of the another state of the variable.

13. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 12 wherein the operations further comprise receiving:

an http POST request when the request is from the version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set, and

an XMLhttpRequest when the request is from the version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set plus the script instruction set.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 12 wherein the non-transitory machine-readable storage medium is selected from the group consisting of:

memory, a CD storage medium, a DVD storage medium, a hard disk, and a memory chip.

15. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 12 wherein the request from the version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set plus the script instruction set is a request to change a state variable from one state to another, and wherein said communication that is less than the entirety of the data set is a confirmation that the request to change the state variable is successful.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 12 wherein the data set is web content and the version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set does not have a script instruction set.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 15 wherein the request from the version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set is an http POST request and the request from the version of the user interactive component having the markup instruction set plus the script instruction set is an XMLhttpRequest.