Systems and methods for efficient storage of content and animation

• US 9,465,882 B2
• Filed: 07/19/2012
• Issued: 10/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Cabanier, Henricus Maria
• Primary Examiner(s): Stork, Kyle
• Assistant Examiner(s): LEVEL, BARBARA M
• Application Number:
  US13/553,336
• Publication Number:
  US 20140026023A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,545 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/80 2D [Two Dimensional] animation, e.g. using sprites
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 9/00 Image coding bandwidth or redundancy reduction for static pictures H04N1/41; coding or decoding of static colour picture signals H04N1/64; methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals H04N19/00

Abstract

One embodiment involves receiving, by a web page authoring tool, presentation information in a markup language corresponding to a static graphical object. In this embodiment, the web page authoring tool receives animation information in a data interchange format corresponding to an adjustment for the static graphical object. In this embodiment, the web page authoring tool receives a runtime engine. In this embodiment, the web page authoring tool stores the presentation information, the animation information, and the runtime engine within a web page. The runtime engine may be configured to cause a web browser displaying the web page to render an animation. The animation can be based at least in part on the presentation information and the animation information.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a web page authoring tool, presentation information for a static graphical object to be rendered in a web page;

converting, by the web authoring tool, the presentation information to a markup language format;

receiving, by the web page authoring tool, animation information for an animation of the static graphical object in the web page, the animation information received separately from the presentation information;

converting, by the web authoring tool, the animation information to a data interchange format;

identifying, by the web authoring tool, a list of types or versions of web browsers usable to render the animation;

selecting, by the web page authoring tool, a runtime engine based on the list of web browsers, wherein the runtime engine is compatible with each web browser in the list such that the runtime engine enables each web browser in the list to render the animation by running the runtime engine; and

editing, by the web page authoring tool, the web page such that, upon a rendering of the edited web page in a web browser from the list, the runtime engine is executed, wherein executing the runtime engine causes a presentation of the static graphical object based on the presentation information in the markup language format, and causes the animation of the presentation based on the animation information in the data interchange format, and wherein editing the web page comprises storing separately or referencing separately in the web page the presentation information in the markup language format, the animation information in the data interchange format, and the runtime engine.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the animation information within the web page is human-readable and user-editable.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the presentation information comprises a path for the static graphical object and an adjustment for the static graphical object, wherein the adjustment comprises a timing for the static graphical object to move along the path.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the markup language comprises a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) corresponding to the static graphical object and wherein the data interchange format comprises a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format corresponding to an adjustment for the static graphical object.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the web authoring application is executed on a user device, wherein the presentation information is received from local storage of the user device in a graphics format and is converted to a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format, wherein the animation information is received via a user interface of the web authoring application at the user device, comprises user-defined animation parameters for the animation of the static graphical object, and is converted to a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the list of types or versions of web browsers is identified based on user input at the user device, wherein the user input specifies the types or versions of the web browsers, and wherein the runtime engine is selected from a local library of the web authorizing tool based on the user input, the local library comprising a plurality of runtime engines.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the web page authoring tool is hosted on a web server and is executed on the user device as an instance, and further comprising:

storing, by the web page authoring tool, the edited web page at the web server.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the user-defined animation parameters comprise at least one of:

timing, movement, appearance, disappearance, events, actions, width, height, or gram rate for the animation of the static graphical object.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the web authoring application is executed on a user device, wherein the presentation information is received from a remote device, wherein the animation information is received from the user device, and further comprising:

storing, by the web page authoring tool, the edited web page at a web server.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the web authoring application is executed on a user device, wherein the presentation information and the animation information are received from a web server based on respective requests from the user device to the web server, and further comprising:

storing, by the web page authoring tool, the edited web page at a web server.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, upon execution on a process of a computer, cause the computer to perform operations comprising:

receiving, by a web page authoring tool, presentation information in a markup language corresponding to a static graphical object;

receiving, by the web page authoring tool, animation information in a data interchange format corresponding to an animation for the static graphical object, the animation information separate from the presentation information;

identifying, by the web authoring tool, a list of types or versions of web browsers usable to render the animation;

selecting, by the web page authoring tool, a runtime engine based on the list of web browsers, wherein the runtime engine is compatible with each web browser in the list such that the runtime engine enables each web browser in the list to render the animation by running the runtime engine;

editing, by the web page authoring tool, the web page such that, upon a rendering of the edited web page in a web browser from the list, the runtime engine is executed, wherein executing the runtime engine causes a presentation of the static graphical object based on the presentation information, and causes the animation of the presentation based on the animation information, and wherein editing the web page comprises storing separately or referencing separately the presentation information, the animation information, and the runtime engine in the web page.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein receiving, by a web page authoring tool, presentation information in a markup language corresponding to a static graphical object comprises:

receiving, by the web page authoring tool, an image in a first format that is different from the markup language format; and

converting, by the web page authoring tool, the first image into the markup language format.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein receiving, by the web page authoring tool, animation information in a data interchange format corresponding to an adjustment for the static graphical object comprises:

receiving, by the web page authoring tool, an event associated with the image, the event configured to cause an adjustment for the image; and

converting, by the web page authoring tool, the event into the data interchange format.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11,

wherein the markup language comprises a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) corresponding to the static graphical object,

wherein the data interchange format comprises a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format corresponding to an adjustment for the static graphical object, and

wherein the animation of the presentation of the static graphical object within the web page is human-readable and user-editable.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein storing separately or referencing separately the presentation information, the animation information, and the runtime engine comprises:

storing first source code corresponding to the presentation information within the web page;

storing second source code corresponding to the animation information within the web page; and

storing third source code corresponding to a location of the runtime engine within the web page,

wherein the runtime engine comprises program code configured to function with at least a first web browser type and a second web browser type different from the first web browser type.

16. A system comprising:

an input device;

a memory storing computer-readable instructions; and

a processor in communication with the input device and the memory, the processor configured for upon executing the computer-readable instructions;

receiving, by a web page authoring tool, presentation information in a markup language corresponding to a static graphical object;

receiving, by the web page authoring tool, animation information in a data interchange format corresponding to an animation for the static graphical object, the animation information separate from the presentation information;

identifying, by the web authoring tool, a list of types or versions of web browsers usable to render the animation;

selecting, by the web page authoring tool, a runtime engine based on the list of web browsers, wherein the runtime engine is compatible with each web browser in the list such that the runtime engine enables each web browser in the list to render the animation by running the runtime engine;

editing, by the web page authoring tool, the web page such that, upon a rendering of the edited web page in a web browser from the list, the runtime engine is executed, wherein executing the runtime engine causes a presentation of the static graphical object based on the presentation information, and causes the animation of the presentation based on the animation information, and wherein editing the web page comprises storing separately or referencing separately the presentation information, the animation information, and the runtime engine in the web page.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the animation information is human-readable and user-editable within the web page authoring tool.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the data interchange format comprises a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format corresponding to the animation for the static graphical object.

19. A method comprising:

receiving, by a web browser, a web page, wherein the web page stores separately or references separately presentation information corresponding to a static graphical object, animation information for an animation of the static graphical object, and a runtime engine that enables different types or versions of web browsers, to render the animation by running the runtime engine, wherein the different types of version of web browsers include the web browser;

identifying, by the web browser, the presentation information in a markup language format based on parsing a markup language of the web page;

identifying, by the web browser, the animation information in a data interchange format based on the parsing of the markup language of the web page;

identifying, by the web browser, the runtime engine based on the parsing of the markup language of the web page; and

rendering, by the web browser, by executing the runtime engine, a presentation of the static graphical object according to the presentation information and the animation of the presentation according to the animation information.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the animation comprises at least one of a movement of the static graphical object or a time for the static graphical object to be displayed.