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

• US 9,600,575 B2
• Filed: 02/17/2012
• Issued: 03/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Inventors: Forsberg, Erik, Mazyan, Bagrat, Schroeder, Jason, Kothule, Deepak
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): ROBINSON, MARSHON L
• Application Number:
  US13/399,991
• Publication Number:
  US 20120151338A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,859 Days
• Field of Search: 715/273, 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 for tenants of an on-demand database service. These mechanisms and methods for creating mobile custom views 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 on mobile devices.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a system from a mobile device of a user via a network, a command to define a view for the mobile device of the user, the view having a mobilized object that is configurable for the mobile device such that the view is customized for the mobile device, and wherein the customization of the mobilized object is specific to a particular tenant of an on-demand, multi-tenant database;

in response to receiving the command, generating, by the system, at least one executable instruction adapted to being utilized by the mobile device for retrieving from the system a configuration for the mobilized object which customizes the view for the mobile device, wherein the generating is performed by an administrative process associated with the particular tenant, and wherein the configuration for the mobilized object differs from a configuration employed by a different tenant of the on-demand multi-tenant database for the mobilized object; and

in response to the system generating the at least one executable instruction, automatically pushing, by the system, the at least one executable instruction to the mobile device via the network;

wherein the at least one executable instruction, when executed by a user interface controller on the mobile device through a processor of the mobile device upon receipt of the at least one executable instruction by the mobile device, retrieves from the system the configuration for the mobilized object for use by the mobile device in generating the view for the mobile device, wherein the view is customized for the mobile device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobilized object includes one or more fields.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the configuration includes at least one value which corresponds to the one or more fields of the mobilized object.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the at least one value corresponding to the one or more fields are retrieved from a portion of storage associated with the user.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the at least one value is capable of being processed to provide the view for the mobile device.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the at least one executable instruction in a storage location associated with the user.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the pushing is triggered by the storing of the at least one executable instruction in the storage location associated with the user.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one executable instruction includes at least one unique identifier.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the at least one unique identifier is utilized for validation of the at least one executable instruction.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the mobile device utilizes the at least one unique identifier for performing the validation.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, by the system, that the mobilized object has been updated or deleted; and

causing, by the system, the mobilized object to be updated or deleted on the mobile device.

11. A non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores one or more sequences of instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to carry out operations comprising:

receiving, by a system from a mobile device of a user via a network, a command to define a view for the mobile device of the user, the view having a mobilized object that is configurable for the mobile device such that the view is customized for the mobile device, and wherein the customization of the mobilized object is specific to a particular tenant of an on-demand, multi-tenant database;

in response to receiving the command, generating, by the system, at least one executable instruction adapted to being utilized by the mobile device for retrieving from the system a configuration for the mobilized object which customizes the view for the mobile device, wherein the generating is performed by an administrative process associated with the particular tenant, and wherein the configuration for the mobilized object differs from a configuration employed by a different tenant of the on-demand multi-tenant database for the mobilized object; and

in response to the system generating the at least one executable instruction, automatically pushing, by the system, the at least one executable instruction to the mobile device via the network;

wherein the at least one executable instruction, when executed by a user interface controller on the mobile device through a processor of the mobile device upon receipt of the at least one executable instruction by the mobile device, retrieves from the system the configuration for the mobilized object for use by the mobile device in generating the view for the mobile device, wherein the view is customized for the mobile device.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining, by the system, that the mobilized object has been updated or deleted; and

causing, by the system, the mobilized object to be updated or deleted on the mobile device.

12. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor of a system; and

a memory that stores one or more stored sequences of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising;

receiving, by the system from a mobile device of a user via a network, a command to define a view for the mobile device of the user, the view having a mobilized object that is configurable for the mobile device such that the view is customized for the mobile device, and wherein the customization of the mobilized object is specific to a particular tenant of an on-demand, multi-tenant database;

in response to receiving the command, generating, by the system, at least one executable instruction adapted to being utilized by the mobile device for retrieving from the system a configuration for the mobilized object which customizes the view for the mobile device, wherein the generating is performed by an administrative process associated with the particular tenant, and wherein the configuration for the mobilized object differs from a configuration employed by a different tenant of the on-demand multi-tenant database for the mobilized object; and

in response to the system generating the at least one executable instruction, automatically pushing, by the system, the at least one executable instruction to the mobile device via the network;

wherein the at least one executable instruction, when executed by a user interface controller on the mobile device through a processor of the mobile device upon receipt of the at least one executable instruction by the mobile device, retrieves from the system the configuration for the mobilized object for use by the mobile device in generating the view for the mobile device, wherein the view is customized for the mobile device.

15. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining, by the system, that the mobilized object has been updated or deleted; and

causing, by the system, the mobilized object to be updated or deleted on the mobile device.