Transportable web application

• US 8,775,677 B2
• Filed: 12/20/2006
• Issued: 07/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Meijer, Henricus Johannes Maria, Flake, Gary W., Gounares, Alexander G., MacLaurin, Matthew B., Mishra, Debi P., Mital, Amit, Snyder, Ira L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lazaro, David
• Assistant Examiner(s): HENRY, MARIEGEORGES A
• Application Number:
  US11/613,235
• Publication Number:
  US 20080082693A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,757 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223, 709/246, 709/247, 719/331
• US Class Current: 709/247
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4856 resumption being on a different machine, e.g. task migration, virtual machine migration G06F9/5088 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/50 Network service management, e.g. ensuring proper service fulfilment according to agreements

Abstract

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates re-locating a web application associated with a network service utilizing a portion of serialized data. The network service can be any collection of resources that are maintained by a party (e.g., third-party, off-site, etc.) and accessible by an identified user over a network (e.g., WAN, Internet, etc.). An interface component can receive a portion of serialized data with transparent structure related to an application specification. A hydrate component can create a web application independent of a network service based at least in part upon the serialized data, the web application has state within the network service.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates implementing a transportable web application that is to be transported from a first device to a second device, the system comprising:

one or more hardware processors;

at least one computer readable storage media;

a dehydrate component maintained by the at least one computer readable storage media that, when executed by the one or more processors, compresses a live web application operating on the first device into a compact package including a portion of serialized data with transparent structure related to an application specification, the serialized data being independent of at least one of a host and a network service, the compact package being generated such that the second device to which the web application is transported may decompress the compact package and such that the second device provides an uninterrupted implementation of the web application in place of the first device with the same state as before transportation from the first device to the second device; and

an interface that transmits the compact package to the second device.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first device and the second device are at least one of a machine, a portable digital assistant (PDA), a mobile communication device, a laptop, a computer, a desktop machine, a smartphone, a cellular phone, and a messenger device.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the first device comprises at least part of the interface.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the first device and the second device are at least one of a network service, a resource that is maintained by a party and accessible by an identified user over a network, a cloud service, a cloud, a service, a computer, a component, and a machine.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a log component that tracks data associated with at least one of serialized data, a de-hydration setting, a hydration setting, a web application packaging, a web application construction, a network service, transportation data, a user account, web application data, a serialization of state related to the web application upon termination, a web application re-location, and a web application target destination.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising a security component that employs granular security related to at least one of a user, a portion of a network service, a collection of services, a user account, a network service, a cloud service, a service, a state of data migration, a web application re-location, a dehydration, a re-hydration, and a web application expansion process.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising a query component that allows the querying of data related to at least one of a network service, a service, a location of data, a location of a service, a relocation of a service, a relocation of data, a location of a web application, a re-location of a web application, a device utilizing a web application, a user associated with the network service, and a user associated with a device utilizing the web application.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising an intelligent component that infers at least one of a creation of the web application, a serialized data associated with an application specification, a portion of the serialized data, portions of the web application, an expansion technique, a setting associated with the web application, a network service configuration, dehydration data, data associated with a replacing network service, transportation data, web application data, security information, and a bond maintenance for web application.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the web application is implemented within a network service and retains state within the network service;

and wherein the network service is a resource that is maintained by a party and accessible by an identified user over a network.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the party is at least one of a third-party, a second-party, and an off-site party.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the serialized data related to an application specification is at least one of a portion of data including user identification, a portion of data associated with user state, a portion of data related to a session state, an object related to a programming language, a portion of stream-lined layers that maintain a bond to the web application, a portion of the web application, a collection of bare-bone layers associated with the web application independent of a target host, and a blueprint for implementing the web application without data specifics associated with the network service.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the serialized data related to an application corresponds to the web application and includes at least one layer, wherein the at least one layer relates to at least one of a database, a web server, a rendering side, a display, an application layer, a client side logic, and a server side logic.

13. A computer-implemented method comprising:

at a first device utilizing a web application, the first device being a mobile communication device;

compacting the web application into a compressed package including a portion of serialized data associated with an application specification, the serialized data being configured to ensure that digital rights management (DRM) characteristics are maintained, wherein the compacting is performed while the web application is live, the web application being compacted into the compressed package such that a hot transition of the web application to a second device may be facilitated such that the web application may be implemented by the second device in place of the first device in the same state as prior to the compaction and transition of the web application from the first device to the second device, the serialized data being independent of at least one of a host and a network service; and

transmitting the compressed package from the first device to the second device;

at the second device;

hydrating the compressed package into the web application that is employed within the second device independent of network service details and independent of device specific details;

implementing the web application by the second device in place of the first device in the same state as prior to the compaction.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

appending the application specification with data specific to at least one of the first device and the network service to allow implementation of the web application corresponding to the application specification.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the mobile communication devices includes at least one of a portable digital assistant (PDA), a laptop, a computer, a desktop machine, a smartphone, a cellular phone, and a messenger device.

16. A computer-implemented system that facilitates transportation of a live web application from a first device to a second device, the computer-implemented system comprising:

at the second device, an interface that receives a compact package from the first device, the compact package including a portion of serialized data with transparent structure related to an application specification of the live web application, the serialized data being independent of at least one of a host and a network service, the compact package being generated such that the second device to which the live web application is transported may provide an uninterrupted implementation of the live web application in place of the first device with the same state as before transportation from the first device to the second device; and

a hydrate component that expands the live web application from the received compact package based at least in part upon the serialized data with transparent structure related to an application specification of the live web application and that executes the live web application at the second device such that the second device provides an uninterrupted implementation of the live web application in place of the first device with the same state as before transportation from the first device to the second device to achieve a hot transition of the live web application to the second device.