Framework versioning

• US 9,032,390 B2
• Filed: 12/23/2008
• Issued: 05/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Tsuk, Robert, Donaldson, Jesse, Kern, Matthew, Simon, Greg
• Primary Examiner(s): Dao, Thuy
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen, Mongbao
• Application Number:
  US12/343,361
• Publication Number:
  US 20100162229A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,331 Days
• US Class Current: 717/175
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44526 Plug-ins; Add-ons
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44536 Selecting among different versions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44552 Conflict resolution, i.e. enabling coexistence of conflicting executables

Abstract

Various embodiments are directed to framework versioning for a mobile computing device. The described embodiments may include a web browser, a plurality of application frameworks, one or more applications compatible with one or more of the plurality of application frameworks, and a loader module operative to select and load one of the plurality of application frameworks into the web browser for each of the one or more applications based on an identifier in each of the one or more applications. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving a request to load an application on a computing device;

parsing the application to determine an identifier;

identifying one of a plurality of application frameworks associated with the application based on the identifier in the application, the application compatible for execution on the computing device within the identified application framework, the identified application framework provides a standard structure for the application to operate within a web browser and controls one or more aspects of the application;

installing the identified application framework within the web browser;

installing the application within the identified application framework on the computing device to be used in combination with the identified application framework, wherein the identifier in the application comprises an application framework version identifier comprising a tag to identify an application framework version that is compatible with the application, and wherein parsing the application further comprises parsing the application to identify the tag and select and load the compatible application framework version.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of application frameworks comprise different application framework versions.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

loading the application framework from a directory structure, the directory structure comprising separate folders for each application framework version and a shared folder comprising elements common to a plurality of application framework versions.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more applications comprise web applications supported by the web browser.

5. A method comprising:

providing a plurality of application framework versions to computing devices of users;

receiving web applications from web application developers;

parsing the web applications to determine an identifier;

identifying the one of a plurality of the application framework versions compatible for execution of the web applications, the one of the plurality of the application framework versions are identified from the identifier in the web applications, the one of a plurality of the application framework versions provides a standard structure for the web applications to operate within a web browser and controls one or more aspects of the web applications, wherein the identifier in the web applications comprises an application framework version identifier comprising a tag to identify an application framework version that is compatible with the web applications, wherein parsing the web applications further comprises parsing the web applications to identify the tag and select and load the compatible application framework version; and

providing the web applications to the computing devices of the users.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the plurality of application framework versions are stored in a directory structure on the computing devices of the users, the directory structure comprising separate folders for each application framework version and a shared folder comprising elements common to a plurality of application framework versions.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the computing devices of the users comprise the web browser to support the web applications.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the web applications are available regardless of an online or offline network status of the computing devices of the users.

9. An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium containing instructions that when executed by a processor enable a system to:

receive a request to load an application;

parse the application to determine an identifier;

identify one of a plurality of application frameworks associated with the application based on an identifier in the application, the application compatible for execution within the identified application framework, the identified application framework provides a standard structure for the application to operate within a web browser and controls one or more aspects of the application, wherein the identifier the application comprises an application framework version identifier comprising a tag to identify an application framework version that is compatible with the application, wherein parsing the application further comprises parsing the application to identify the tag and select and load the compatible application framework version;

install the identified application framework compatible with the application within the web browser based at least in part on the identified tag; and

install the application within the installed application framework or in a memory to be used in combination with the installed application framework.

10. The article of manufacture of claim 9, wherein the plurality of application frameworks comprise different application framework versions.

11. The article of manufacture of claim 9, further comprising instructions that when executed by the processor enable the system to:

load the application framework from a directory structure, the directory structure comprising separate folders for each application framework version and a shared folder comprising elements common to a plurality of application framework versions.

12. A mobile computing device, comprising:

a processor;

a web browser implemented by the mobile computing device;

a plurality of application frameworks for installation into the web browser, wherein each of the plurality of application frameworks provides a standard structure for web applications to operate within the web browser and controls one or more aspects of the web applications;

one or more web applications compatible for execution on the mobile computing device within one or more of the plurality of application frameworks; and

a loader module operative to select a compatible application framework and load the compatible application framework into the web browser on the mobile computing device for each of the one or more web applications based on an identifier in each of the one or more applications, the loader module to parse each of the one or more applications to determine the identifier, wherein the identifier in the one or more web applications comprises an application framework version identifier comprising a tag to identify an application framework version that is compatible with the one or more web applications, wherein parsing each of the one or more web applications further comprises parsing the one or more web applications to identify the tag and select and load the compatible application framework version.

13. The mobile computing device of claim 12, wherein the plurality of application frameworks comprise different application framework versions.

14. The mobile computing device of claim 13, further comprising:

a directory structure to organize the plurality of application framework versions, the directory structure comprising separate folders for each application framework version and a shared folder comprising elements common to a plurality of application framework versions.

15. The mobile computing device of claim 12, wherein the loader module is part of the web browser, or the loader module is part of the application frameworks and a loader of a most recent application framework is used as the loader module for each of the plurality of application frameworks.