Method and apparatus for providing a dynamic execution environment in network communication between a client and a server

• US 9,069,627 B2
• Filed: 06/06/2012
• Issued: 06/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Synactive, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Synactive, Inc.
• Inventors: Ewe, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Wang, Liangche A
• Assistant Examiner(s): NDIAYE, CHEIKH T
• Application Number:
  US13/489,677
• Publication Number:
  US 20130332506A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,119 Days
• Field of Search: 709/201, 709/203, 715/744, 715/746, 715/749
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/452 Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/541 via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols

Abstract

A computer implemented method and apparatus for providing a dynamic execution environment comprising receiving a base user interface from a server, creating and storing one or more intermediate representations (IR) which represent a mapping between the base user interface and a modified user interface, executing the one or more IRs to intercept network communication from the server, map between the base user interface and the modified user interface, and to send the modified user interface to one or more clients and executing the one or more IRs to intercept network communication from the one or more clients to the server with user data, map between the modified user interface and the base user interface, and to send the base user interface along with the user data to the server

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for providing a dynamic execution environment comprising:

receiving a base user interface from a server;

creating and storing one or more intermediate representations (IR) which represent a mapping between the base user interface and a modified user interface;

intercepting a network communication from the server to one or more clients;

executing the one or more IRs on the intercepted network communication from the server to the one or more clients and performing changes to the intercepted network communication by mapping between the base user interface and the modified user interface to convert the base user interface to the modified user interface, and to forward the intercepted and converted network communication to the one or more clients;

intercepting a network communication from the one or more clients to the server; and

executing the one or more IRs on the intercepted network communication from the one or more clients to the server with user data by performing event trapping on screen events on one or more screens of the modified user interface, map between the modified user interface and the base user interface to convert user input for the base user interface and to modify the user data to a format corresponding to the base user interface, and to send the converted input along with the modified user data in the form of modified network communication to the server.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the modified user interface comprises at least one of a drag and drop operation, a deletion, a label change, or a font change.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more IRs are composed of one or more scripts.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the one or more scripts are encoded in a scripted programming language.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more IRs are executed in a sequential order corresponding to an order in which one or more modifications were made to the base user interface to generate the modified user interface.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein if the server determines that a portion of the user data is invalid, the dynamic execution environment will execute one or more IRs to send the modified user interface to the one or more clients, along with error data and the user data.

7. An apparatus for providing a dynamic execution environment comprising:

an execution environment for receiving a base user interface;

an intermediate representation module (IRM) coupled to the execution environment for creating and storing one or more intermediate representations (IRs) mapping between the base user interface and a modified user interface and for intercepting network communication from a server to one or more clients to convert the base user interface to the modified user interface, and to forward the intercepted and converted network communication to the one or more clients; and

an event trapping mechanism for intercepting network communication from the one or more clients to the server with user data by performing event trapping on screen events on one or more screens of the modified user interface, executing one or more event handlers associated with a modification in the modified user interface, and communicating with the intermediate representation module to perform mappings between the modified user interface and the base user interface to convert user input for the base user interface and to modify the user data to a format corresponding to the base user interface, and to send the converted input along with the modified user data in the form of modified network communication to the server mappings between the modified user interface and the base user interface.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the modified user interface comprises at least one of a drag and drop operation, a deletion, a label change, or a font change.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the one or more IRs are composed of one or more scripts.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the one or more scripts are encoded in a scripted programming language.

11. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the one or more IRs are executed in a sequential order corresponding to an order in which one or more modifications were made to the base user interface to generate the modified user interface.

12. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein if the server determines that a portion of the user data is invalid, the dynamic execution environment will execute one or more IRs to send the modified user interface to the one or more clients, along with error data and the user data.