System, method and computer program product for creating mobile custom views with filtering for tenants of an on-demand database service

• US 9,087,128 B1
• Filed: 07/06/2012
• Issued: 07/21/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Inventors: Forsberg, Erik, Schroeder, Jason, Mazyan, Bagrat, Kothule, Deepak
• Primary Examiner(s): Moise, Emmanuel L
• Assistant Examiner(s): Henry, Marie Georges
• Application Number:
  US13/543,116
• Time in Patent Office: 1,110 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/220, 715/744
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/26 Visual data mining; Browsing structured data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/74 Browsing; Visualisation therefor end-user interfaces for requesting or interacting with video content, e.g. video on demand interfaces or electronic program guides, H04N21/472
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for creating mobile custom views with filtering for tenants of an on-demand database service. These mechanisms and methods for creating mobile custom views with filtering for tenants of an on-demand database service can enable embodiments to allow tenants to create and push instructions for generating user-defined views to mobile devices, etc. The ability of embodiments to provide such feature may allow tenants to efficiently and effectively create interfaces for mobile devices.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, at a database system, a command to define a user interface for a mobile device associated with a user of the database system, the command including at least one mobilized object having a value defining at least a portion of the user interface;

generating, at the database system, instructions to retrieve the value from a portion of a database of the database system associated with the user; and

pushing the instructions from the database system to the mobile device associated with the user;

wherein the instructions, when executed by a processor of the mobile device, define the user interface of the mobile device, such that in response to execution of the instructions by the processor of the mobile device, the value is provided to the mobile device by the database of the database system for use by the mobile device in defining the user interface for the mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the instructions include at least one controller instruction for a user interface controller on the mobile device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the user interface controller includes logic for displaying the user interface on the at least one mobile device.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the instructions in the portion of the database of the system associated with the user.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the pushing of the instructions to the mobile device is performed automatically.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the pushing of the instructions to the mobile device is triggered by the storage of the instructions in the portion of the database of the system associated with the user.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the instructions include at least one unique identifier.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the at least one unique identifier is utilized for validation of the instructions.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the database system includes an on-demand database system.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the database system includes a multi-tenant on-demand database system.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one mobilized object includes a definition of one or more visual objects and associated attributes, where the visual objects are associated with the user interface.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the value is for an image attribute and a text attribute of the mobilized object, and the instructions are to retrieve the value of the image attribute and the text attribute.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to carry out the steps of:

receiving, at a database system, a command to define a user interface for a mobile device associated with a user of the database system, the command including at least one mobilized object having a value defining at least a portion of the user interface;

generating, at the database system, instructions to retrieve the value from a portion of a database of the database system associated with the user; and

pushing the instructions from the database system to the mobile device associated with the user;

wherein the instructions, when executed by a processor of the mobile device, define the user interface of the mobile device, such that in response to execution of the instructions by the processor of the mobile device, the value is provided to the mobile device by the database of the database system for use by the mobile device in defining the user interface for the mobile device.

14. An apparatus, comprising:

a hardware processor; and

one or more stored sequences of instructions which, when executed by the hardware processor, cause the hardware processor to carry out the steps of;

receiving, at a database system, a command to define a user interface for a mobile device associated with a user of the database system, the command including at least one mobilized object having a value defining at least a portion of the user interface;

generating, at the database system, instructions to retrieve the value from a portion of a database of the database system associated with the user; and

pushing the instructions from the database system to the mobile device associated with the user;

wherein the instructions, when executed by a processor of the mobile device, define the user interface of the mobile device, such that in response to execution of the instructions by the processor of the mobile device, the value is provided to the mobile device by the database of the database system for use by the mobile device in defining the user interface for the mobile device.