Method and system for providing content

• US 9,201,631 B2
• Filed: 01/27/2012
• Issued: 12/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amplifier Marketing Pty., Limited
• Original Assignee: Amplifier Marketing Pty., Limited
• Inventors: Friedman, Adam, Parlavecchio, Roberto, Teichtahl, Marc, Jager, Ivo Ruben Willem
• Primary Examiner(s): Das, Chameli
• Application Number:
  US13/982,205
• Publication Number:
  US 20140068549A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,404 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/151 Transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/186 Templates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/30 Creation or generation of source code
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/35 model driven

Abstract

A computer-implemented method for generating one or more applications, the method including the steps of: accessing a template for holding content; populating the template with the content; generating the one or more applications, configured for a plurality of computing platforms, based on the populated template; and making the applications available for distribution by a server.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for generating one or more applications with an agent server device, the agent server device executes instructions that perform the method, including the steps of:

accessing a template for holding content;

in a design phase, receiving data representing design selections for the applications made by a designer, and modifying the template based on the design selections, wherein the template includes one or more web-standard elements, one or more non-web-standard custom elements, and one or more non-web-standard native elements;

in a database creation phase following the design phase, parsing the non-web-standard custom elements to generate a resources database including database fields for respective items of the content;

receiving the items of content based on selections by a designer, and storing the items of content in the resources database;

in a content population phase following the database creation phase, parsing the non-web-standard custom elements to generate the plurality of applications, configured for a plurality of computing platforms, by populating the template with the content by accessing the content in the resources database, and parsing the non-web standard native elements to generate platform-specific code in the applications, wherein the parsing is performed during execution of the plurality of applications on a computing platform associated with the platform-specific code, and wherein the parsing is performed before loading the content into a web content viewer on the platform; and

in a distribution phase following the content population phase, storing the plurality of applications for distribution by a server.

2. The method of claim 1, including the step of parsing the non-web-standard custom elements to generate web-standard elements for the applications.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of parsing the non-web-standard native elements is performed on a local device executing the applications and/or on a remote server in communication with the local device.

4. The method of claim 1, including the steps of:

parsing one or more of the non-web-standard custom elements to generate one or more further non-web-standard custom elements; and

parsing the further non-web-standard custom elements to generate one or more of the web-standard elements or web-standard content.

5. The method of claim 1, including the steps of:

in the content population phase, parsing the non-web-standard custom elements and the web-standard elements to generate an optimisation plan for bandwidth optimisation of the applications based on the template; and

in a compression and optimisation phase following the content population phase, compressing the generated applications based on the optimisation plan.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the optimisation plan includes statistics about the content in the template.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the optimisation plan is represented by metadata about the template.

8. The method of claim 1, including the step of generating binary executable versions of the applications.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the server is an agent server, further including the step of receiving the content from a client server.

10. The method of claim 1, including the step of selecting the plurality of computing platforms.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the applications are configured for use on mobile communication devices and/or web-enabled computing platforms.

12. The method of claim 1, including transmitting the applications using a mobile communications network.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the template is at least partially human-readable.

14. Non-transitory computer-readable storage with instructions configured to perform the method of claim 1.

15. The method of claim 1, including a step of, in the design phase, parsing the non-web-standard custom elements of the template to populate the template with mock-up content items that act as place-holders for the items of content.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising a step of providing a link for sharing the applications between different mobile communications devices.

17. A system for generating a plurality of applications, the system including:

a memory for storing instructions; and

a processor for executing instructions for employing modules, including;

a context manager module configured to determine a design phase, a database creation phase following the design phase, a content population phase following the database creation phase, and a distribution phase following the content population phase;

a build controller module configured to;

access a template for holding content, and

in the design phase, receive data representing design selections for the applications made by a designer, and modify the template based on the design selections, wherein the template includes one or more web-standard elements, one or more non-web-standard custom elements, and one or more non-web-standard native elements;

a parser module configured to;

in the database creation phase, parse the non-web-standard custom elements to generate a resources database including database fields for respective items of the content, and

in the content population phase, parse the non-web-standard custom elements to generate the plurality of applications, configured for a plurality of computing platforms, by populating the template with content by accessing the content in the resources database, and parse the non-web standard native elements to generate platform-specific code in the applications, wherein the parsing is performed during execution of the plurality of applications on a computing platform associated with the platform-specific code, and wherein the parsing is performed before loading the content into a web content viewer on the platform;

an application resource database module configured to receive the items of content based on selections by a designer, and store the items of content in the resources database; and

a distribution module configured to, in the distribution phase, store the plurality of applications for distribution by a server.