System and method for creating a development and operational platform for mobile applications

• US 9,274,763 B2
• Filed: 05/06/2015
• Issued: 03/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ClearBlade, Inc.
• Original Assignee: ClearBlade, Inc.
• Inventors: Allsbrook, David Aaron
• Primary Examiner(s): TECKLU, ISAAC TUKU
• Application Number:
  US14/705,737
• Publication Number:
  US 20150234639A1
• Time in Patent Office: 300 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits

Abstract

The present invention provides a system and method for constructing a complete definition of a backend requirements model that can be automatically accessed and interpreted, and generated into a mobile consumable API for creation of, and use with, mobile applications. The mobile consumable API can be provided and made available to mobile app developers on a separate, stand-alone platform, and may act as an intermediary between the mobile app and the primary mainframe/enterprise/back end system. The method may include identification and definition of one or more of information providers, integration providers, and system behaviors, and creating a domain model. The domain model may be automatically codified into an API based solution as the app/mainframe interface, and stored on a development and operational platform for use.

Claims

1. A method for creating an interface for software applications interacting with an enterprise computer system comprising:

a. providing a preconstructed computer code set of connectors comprised of at least one of information provider connectors, integration provider connectors, and system behavior connectors;

b. defining a software application specific data set comprised of at least one of information providers with which the software application will interact, integration providers with which the software application will interact, and system behaviors of the software application;

c. creating a machine readable domain model from the software application specific data set; and

d. processing the domain model using a domain model processor to generate a software application/enterprise interface having app specific connectors associated with the software application specific data set, and wherein said app specific connectors are derived from the preconstructed computer code set of connectors.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the software application/enterprise interface is stored on a development and operational computer system platform.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the software application specific data set includes an information provider with which the software application will interact, and comprises at least one of data sources, messaging, and logic execution.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the software application specific data set includes an integration provider with which the software application will interact, and comprises at least one of advertising, financial transactions, social interaction, and user profiles.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the software application specific data set includes a system behavior, and comprises at least one of performance, analytics, authority, authentication, encryption, and quality/testing.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the domain model is in XML format.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the app specific connectors include at least one of destination server IP address, credentials, token, and target data name.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the software application specific data set is generated from a user'"'"'s selections from pre-populated menus, and stored in computer memory in a machine readable format, and wherein the domain model is automatically created from the software application specific data set.

9. A method for interfacing software applications with an enterprise computer system comprising:

a. creating a machine readable domain model defining a software application specific connector data set, said software application specific connector data set comprised of at least one of an information provider with which the software application will interact, an integration provider with which the software application will interact, and a system behavior of the software application; and

b. processing the domain model to automatically generate a software application/mainframe interface having at least one app specific connector associated with the software application specific connector data set, and wherein said at least one app specific connector is derived from a preconstructed computer code set of connectors comprised of at least one of information provider connectors, integration provider connectors, and system behavior connectors.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein software application/enterprise interface is stored on a development and operational computer system platform.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the software application specific connector data set comprises at least one of data sources, messaging, logic execution, advertising, financial transactions, social interaction, performance, analytics, authority, authentication, encryption, and quality/testing.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the software application/enterprise interface stored on the development and operational computer system platform also contains at least portions of the preconstructed computer code set of connectors.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein mobile device application/enterprise interface is in compiled computer code format.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the machine readable domain model is in markup language format.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein the machine readable domain model is generated from a user'"'"'s selections from pre-populated menus, and stored in computer memory in a machine readable format.

16. A computer system for generating a software application/enterprise computer system interface comprising:

a. memory storing a preconstructed computer code set of connectors comprised of at least one of information provider connectors, integration provider connectors, and system behavior connectors;

b. logic configured to process a machine readable domain model defining a software application specific connector data set to generate the software application/enterprise computer system interface having app specific connectors associated with the software application specific connector data set, wherein said app specific connectors are derived from the preconstructed computer code set of connectors, and wherein said software application specific connector data set is comprised of at least one of an information provider with which the software application with interact, an integration provider with which the software application will interact, and a system behavior of the software application.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the software application specific connector data set includes a system behavior, and comprises at least one of performance, analytics, authority, authentication, encryption, and quality/testing.

18. The system of claim 16, further comprising memory storing pre-populated menus of connector data, and further comprising logic configured to process the user selected connector data to generate the machine readable domain model.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the software application specific connector data set includes an integration provider with which the software application will interact, and comprises at least one of is advertising, financial transactions, social interaction, and user profile.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein the software application specific connector data includes an information provider with which the software application will interact, and comprises at least one of data sources, messaging, and logic execution.