High-level hypermedia synthesis for adaptive web

• US 8,549,497 B2
• Filed: 05/05/2008
• Issued: 10/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: University of New Brunswick
• Original Assignee: University of New Brunswick
• Inventors: Nadjarbashi-Noghani, Mehran, Sadat-Kooch-Mohtasham, Seyed-Hossein, Ghorbani, Ali-Akbar
• Primary Examiner(s): Dao, Thuy
• Assistant Examiner(s): ST LEGER, GEOFFREY R
• Application Number:
  US12/115,137
• Publication Number:
  US 20090276764A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,975 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 717/148
• 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 8/51 Source to source
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

A process for dynamically generating browser-ready code from a high-level code description of a web page written in a first predefined language having one or more adaptive features and from one or more constraints associated with a request for such browser-ready code.

Claims

1. A processor-implemented process for dynamically generating browser-ready code comprising the steps of:

(a) in response to a request for the browser-ready code, compiling an intermediate code description in a predefined language from a high level code description of a web page written in a domain dependent adaptive web language dependent on a domain of application and comprising one or more adaptive features, wherein the intermediate code description characterizes the adaptive features as a set of adaptive variables, and wherein the predefined language is a domain independent intermediate vocabulary format;

(b) receiving the request at a synthesis engine;

(c) the synthesis engine reading the intermediate code description to extract the set of adaptive variables associated with the web page;

(d) the synthesis engine obtaining and storing one or more constraints associated with the request either from the request itself or from external data sources to serve as values for the set of adaptive variables, at least one of which constraints is a browser language from a class of browser languages supported by a runtime compiler associated with the synthesis engine; and

(e) the synthesis engine compiling, by way of the runtime compiler, an instance of the browser-ready code from the intermediate code description and using a system determined set of the one or more constraints as parameters for the adaptive variables;

wherein the predefined language supports a function specified in the high level code description of the web page, which is not supported in one or more of the languages in the class of browser languages supported by the runtime compiler, through the use of one or more scripts which may be passed through to the browser-ready code to either implement such function or advise users that such function is unavailable.

2. The process of claim 1 wherein the predefined language is a domain independent intermediate vocabulary format designed to relate the high level code description of the web page in the domain dependent adaptive web language to browser language, in the class of browser languages supported by the runtime compiler.

3. The process of claim 2, wherein the one or more constraints are selected from the group of classes of constraints consisting of:

user provided information;

browser use history;

technical specifications of a system from which the request originates; and

technical specifications of a network through which the request is received.

4. The process of claim 3 further comprising a step (f) following step (e) of providing such instance of the browser-ready code in response to the request.

5. The process of claim 3 wherein step (c) further comprises the step of:

having the synthesis engine retrieve and store additional input parameters for the adaptive variables.

6. The process of claim 1 wherein the one or more constraints are taken from one or more data sources.