Method and system for providing applications to various devices

• US 8,959,536 B2
• Filed: 08/18/2009
• Issued: 02/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Infosys Limited
• Original Assignee: Infosys Limited
• Inventors: Paul, Sanjoy, Jain, Manish
• Primary Examiner(s): Sough, H S
• Assistant Examiner(s): HOANG, PHUONG N
• Application Number:
  US12/542,990
• Publication Number:
  US 20100043017A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,009 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 719/328
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/64 Retargetable

Abstract

A method for providing applications to one or more requesting devices is provided. The method comprises a step of first receiving an application request from the one or more requesting devices. The method includes extracting details of the request. Further markup language structure for corresponding page of the application is generated. The markup language structure is generated by invoking page handlers which includes contacting business logic layer to get information required to be embedded in the corresponding page. The output page is then provided to the requesting device.

Claims

1. A system for providing access to an application on a television, the system comprising:

a development framework configured to facilitate generation of software code for rendering the application on the television;

an execution framework comprising, a controller, a request handler configured to identify the applications Adapter Class to be invoked and further configured to instantiate the Class;

a device adapter configured to adapt the application to the television;

a data transformer configured to generate an output corresponding to the application in at least one of an HTML and an XHTML format, wherein the output is generated based on the XML structure generated by the application adaptor; and

a response handler configured to provide the output to the television requesting the application through the controller, said framework configured to;

receive a request from the television for an access to the application associated with a mobile phone, wherein the request is sent from the television using a virtual QWERTY keyboard displayed on the television, further wherein the application consists one of;

a banking application, a movie rental application, a news update application, and a social networking application;

extract information related to capabilities of the television from a database, wherein the capabilities consists of aspect ratio, display resolution, media player, and a browser associated with the television

transform navigational and user interface related aspects of the requested application associated with the mobile phone to make the application compliant with capabilities of the television and further configured to provide one or more output corresponding to the requested application to the television;

an application adaptor configured to generate a Markup Language structure of the requested application; and

a media transformation engine comprising a media controller, said engine configured to provide media content requested by the application to the television.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the markup language is an Extensible Markup Language.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the development framework is configured to facilitate generation of markup language code for rendering the application on the television, wherein the markup language code comprises user interface layout data for the television.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the development framework is further configured to facilitate generation of markup language code for rendering the application on various kinds of mobile devices, wherein the markup language code comprises user interface layout data for various kinds of mobile devices.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the development framework is further configured to facilitate generation of markup language code for rendering the application on various kinds of personal computers, wherein the markup language code comprises user interface layout data for various kinds of personal computers.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the development framework comprises an Application Programming Interface (API) for a developer to generate the software code for rendering the application on the television.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the application is further at least one of a web-based application, a television based application, and a gaming application.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the television requests the application associated with the mobile phone through a data network.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the data network is at least one of the Internet, an Intranet and a network of two or more electronic devices.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the response handler is further configured to receive XML string along with information required to transform user interface from the controller and further configured to pass the received information to the data transformer.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the media content requested by the application comprises at least one of images, video and audio.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the television is at least one of, a set top box, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), OpenCable Application Platform (OCAP)-based cable television, Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format (EBIF)-based cable television, and a Digital Television (DTV).

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the development framework comprises:

a user interface transformer configured to store markup language templates defining user interface layout data for rendering data on the television; and

a rules engine configured to facilitate creation of markup language templates for the television.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the markup language templates are created by a developer using the Application Programming Interface (API).

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the markup language is an Extensible Markup Language (XML).

16. A system for providing access to an application on a television, the system comprising:

a development framework configured to facilitate generation of software code for rendering the application on the television;

an execution framework comprising, a controller, said framework configured to;

receive a request from the television for an access to the application associated with a mobile phone, wherein the request is sent from the television using a virtual QWERTY keyboard displayed on the television, further wherein the application consists one of;

a banking application, a movie rental application, a news update application, and a social networking application;

extract information related to capabilities of the television from a database, wherein the capabilities consists of aspect ratio, display resolution, media player, and a browser associated with the television

transform navigational and user interface related aspects of the requested application associated with the mobile phone to make the application compliant with capabilities of the television and further configured to provide one or more output corresponding to the requested application to the television;

an application adaptor configured to generate a Markup Language structure of the requested application;

a media transformation engine comprising a media controller, said engine configured to provide media content requested by the application to the television,

a media controller configured to deliver request for media content to a media handler;

a media handler configured to check whether a transformed version of requested content is available in a media cache; and

a media transcoder configured to transform content from a shared storage in order to conform the content in accordance with requirements of the television.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the media transformation engine further comprises:

a customer profile module configured to track access information and receive user preferences and usage information based on one or more requests received;

a real time analysis module configured to receive the user preferences and usage information from the user profile module and further configured to construct content data most likely to be requested based on usage information; and

a content provider configured to store content data in accordance with one or more television-specific formats.

18. The system of claim 16 further comprising:

a media cache configured to store frequently requested content transformed in accordance with requirements of the television; and

a shared storage configured to store standard untransformed content, wherein the media transcoder utilizes data from shared storage in order to conform the content in accordance with requirements of the requesting television.

19. A method for providing access to an application on a television, the method comprising:

receiving a request from a television for an access to an application associated with a mobile phone, wherein the request is sent from the television using a virtual QWERTY keyboard displayed on the television, further wherein the application consists one of;

a banking application, a movie rental application, a news update application, and a social networking application;

sending a request for media content to a media controller;

obtaining information about capabilities of the television by extracting, using a controller, information related to capabilities of the television from a database, wherein the capabilities consists of aspect ratio, display resolution, media player, and a browser associated with the television;

checking whether media content in desired format is available in media cache based on capabilities of the television;

extracting Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) corresponding to the media content, if the media content is available in the media cache;

generating Extensible Markup Language structure of the requested application;

transforming navigational and user interface of the application associated with the mobile phone to make the application compliant with the capabilities of the television;

generating an output corresponding to the requested application, wherein the output is in at least one of an Hypertext Markup Language format and an Extensible Hypertext Markup Language format;

providing the output corresponding to the requested application for rendering on the television; and

providing the URI to the television.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein generating the Extensible Markup Language structure comprises:

identifying the applications'"'"' Adaptor Class to be invoked and instantiating the Class; and

invoking page handlers to generate the Extensible Markup Language structure of the requested application.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein invoking page handlers comprises contacting business logic layer to get information required to be embedded in the generated Extensible Markup Language structure.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein generating an output corresponding to the application comprises using raw XML string along with details required to transform user interface to generate the output in at least one of an HTML and XHTML format, wherein the details consists of style sheets and transformation logic.

23. The method of claim 19 further comprising:

fetching media content from shared storage database, if it is determined that media content in desired format is not available in the media cache;

transcoding media content in a format supported by the television and storing the media content in the media cache; and

providing URI corresponding to the transcoded media content to the television.