Open user interface

• US 9,509,761 B2
• Filed: 10/23/2013
• Issued: 11/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP SE
• Inventors: Gonzalez, Andres Jr., Erickson, Ronald Victor III, Tucker, Stefan Kendric Slade
• Primary Examiner(s): Taylor, Nicholas
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kim, Chong G
• Application Number:
  US14/061,430
• Publication Number:
  US 20150113042A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,133 Days
• Field of Search: 709/224
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/20 Software design
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/449 Object-oriented method invocation or resolution
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72406 by software upgrading or downloading
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits

Abstract

In an example embodiment, a definition is loaded into a client application for execution on a user device. Then, one or more classes defined in a central repository database of a server are loaded into the client application. It may then be determined that one or more custom classes not defined in the central repository database are contained in the definition. The one or more custom classes may be validated by ensuring that they contain one or more preset functions. The one or more custom classes may then be loaded into the client application, thereby overriding or extending at least one of the one or more classes defined in the central repository database.

Claims

1. A method for operating a user device, the method comprising:

loading an application definition into a client application for execution on the user device;

loading one or more classes contained in the application definition defined in a central repository database of a server into the client application;

determining that one or more custom classes not defined in the central repository database are contained in the application definition;

in response to the determining, validating the one or more custom classes by ensuring that they contain one or more preset functions; and

loading the one or more custom classes into the client application, thereby overriding or extending at least one of the one or more classes defined in the central repository database; and

wherein the method is performed subsequent to the user device starting the client application but prior to the client application communicating with the server.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more custom classes define one or more custom controls for a user interface operating in the client application.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more classes define a user interface artifact operating in the client application.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the user interface artifact comprises one or more graphic elements.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the user interface artifact includes one or more images displayed upon startup of the client application.

6. A user device comprising:

a processor;

a memory;

a client application, stored in the memory, and executable by the processor to perform a method to load an application definition, load one or more classes defined in a central repository database of a server, determine that one or more custom classes not defined in the central repository database are contained in the application definition, in response to the determining, validate the one or more custom classes by ensuring that they contain one or more preset functions, and load the one or more custom classes into the client application, thereby overriding or extending at least one of the one or more classes defined in the central repository database, wherein the method is performed subsequent to the user device starting the client application but prior to the client application communicating with the server.

7. The user device of claim 6, wherein the one or more custom classes define one or more custom controls for a user interface operating in the client application.

8. The user device of claim 6, wherein the one or more classes define a user interface artifact operating in the client application.

9. The user device of claim 8, wherein the user interface artifact comprises one or more graphic elements.

10. The user device of claim 8, wherein the user interface artifact includes one or more images displayed upon startup of the client application.

11. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions, which when implemented by one or more machines, cause the one or more machines to perform operations comprising:

loading an application definition into a client application for execution on the user device;

loading one or more classes contained in the application definition defined in a central repository database of a server into the client application;

determining that one or more custom classes not defined in the central repository database are contained in the application definition;

in response to the determining, validating the one or more custom classes by ensuring that they contain one or more preset functions; and

loading the one or more custom classes into the client application, thereby overriding or extending at least one of the one or more classes defined in the central repository database; and

wherein the method is performed subsequent to the user device starting the client application but prior to the client application communicating with the server.

12. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the one or more custom classes define one or more custom controls for a user interface operating in the client application.

13. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the one or more classes define a user interface artifact operating in the client application.