Gateway data distribution engine

• US 9,015,651 B2
• Filed: 08/21/2013
• Issued: 04/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP SE
• Inventors: Chen, Yingyu, Wang, Zhijian
• Primary Examiner(s): Dao, Thuy
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wang, Ben C
• Application Number:
  US13/972,031
• Publication Number:
  US 20130339924A1
• Time in Patent Office: 608 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 717/105
• 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 8/10 Requirements analysis; Specification techniques

Abstract

Implementations include a method, system, and apparatus for receiving, from a user communicably connected to a network, a selection of one or more gateway service data categories; receiving, from the user, a selection of an operating platform of a mobile device operable to be communicably connected to the network; generating a configuration file comprising a selection of gateway service data associated with one or more gateway service data categories and the operating platform selection; generating a data store file and a development library associated with the operating platform selection; transferring the configuration file, the data store file, and the development library to a repository communicably connected to the network; and generating an application template comprising the configuration file, the data store file, and the development library, wherein the mobile application is developed on the mobile device from the application template while the mobile device is communicably disconnected from the network.

Claims

1. A method performed with a computing system for developing a mobile application, the method comprising:

receiving, from a user communicably connected to a network, a selection of one or more gateway service data categories, each of the gateway service data categories associated with a data schema;

receiving, from the user, a selection of an operating platform of a mobile communication device operable to be communicably connected to the network;

receiving, from the user, a selection of one or more database functionalities from a plurality of database functionalities;

generating gateway service data associated with the selected gateway service data categories, the selected operating platform selection, and the selected database functionalities;

transferring the gateway service data to a repository communicably connected to the network; and

generating an application template comprising the gateway service data for development of a mobile application on a mobile communication device that is communicably decoupled from the network, the application template based on the data schema associated with the selected gateway service data category and the selected database functionality.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, from the user, a request for the application template; and

exporting the application template from the repository to the mobile communication device while the mobile communication device is communicably connected to the network.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein exporting the application template from the repository to the mobile communication device comprises exporting the application template from the repository to the mobile communication device through an application development environment.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

receiving, via the network, a synchronization request from the mobile application developed on the mobile communication device from the application template; and

in response to the synchronization request, exporting updated gateway service data to the mobile communication device.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein exporting gateway service data to the mobile communication device comprises exporting substantially all of the gateway service data associated with the selected one or more gateway service data categories to the mobile communication device.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein receiving the synchronization request comprises receiving a request from the mobile communication device for a data table of a plurality of data tables within the gateway service data, the method further comprising:

generating the gateway service data comprising the requested data table.

7. An apparatus comprising instructions embodied on a tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media, the instructions operable when executed to cause a computing system to perform operations comprising:

receiving, from a user communicably connected to a network, a selection of one or more gateway service data categories, each of the gateway service data categories associated with a data schema;

receiving, from the user, a selection of an operating platform of a mobile communication device operable to be communicably connected to the network;

receiving, from the user, a selection of one or more database functionalities from a plurality of database functionalities;

generating gateway service data associated with the selected one or more gateway service data categories, the selected operating platform selection, and the selected database functionalities;

transferring the gateway service data to a repository communicably connected to the network; and

generating an application template comprising the gateway service data for development of a mobile application on a mobile communication device that is communicably decoupled from the network, the application template based on the data schema associated with the selected gateway service data category and the selected database functionality.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving, from the user, a request for the application template; and

exporting the application template from the repository to the mobile communication device while the mobile communication device is communicably connected to the network.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein exporting the application template from the repository to the mobile communication device comprises exporting the application template from the repository to the mobile communication device through an application development environment.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving, via the network, a synchronization request from the mobile application developed on the mobile communication device from the application template; and

in response to the synchronization request, exporting updated gateway service data to the mobile communication device.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein exporting gateway service data to the mobile communication device comprises exporting substantially all of the gateway service data associated with the selected one or more gateway service data categories to the mobile communication device.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein receiving the synchronization request comprises receiving a request from the mobile communication device for a data table of a plurality of data tables within the gateway service data, the method further comprising:

generating the gateway service data comprising the requested data table.

13. A system of one or more computers configured to perform operations, comprising

receiving, from a user communicably connected to a network, a selection of one or more gateway service data categories, each of the gateway service data categories associated with a data schema;

receiving, from the user, a selection of an operating platform of a mobile communication device operable to be communicably connected to the network;

receiving, from the user, a selection of one or more database functionalities from a plurality of database functionalities;

generating gateway service data associated with the selected gateway service data categories, the selected operating platform selection, and the selected database functionalities;

transferring the gateway service data to a repository communicably connected to the network; and

generating an application template comprising the gateway service data for development of a mobile application on a mobile communication device that is communicably decoupled from the network, the application template based on the data schema associated with the selected gateway service data category and the selected database functionality.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving, from the user, a request for the application template; and

exporting the application template from the repository to the mobile communication device while the mobile communication device is communicably connected to the network.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein exporting the application template from the repository to the mobile communication device comprises exporting the application template from the repository to the mobile communication device through an application development environment.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving, via the network, a synchronization request from the mobile application developed on the mobile communication device from the application template; and

in response to the synchronization request, exporting updated gateway service data to the mobile communication device.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein exporting gateway service data to the mobile communication device comprises exporting substantially all of the gateway service data associated with the selected one or more gateway service data categories to the mobile communication device.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein receiving the synchronization request comprises receiving a request from the mobile communication device for a data table of a plurality of data tables within the gateway service data, the method further comprising:

generating the gateway service data comprising the requested data table.