Generating customized graphical user interfaces for mobile processing devices

• US 9,619,446 B2
• Filed: 02/19/2014
• Issued: 04/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Beust, Cedric, Baluja, Shumeet, Garrett, Maryam, Gil, Elad
• Primary Examiner(s): Long, Andrea
• Application Number:
  US14/184,025
• Publication Number:
  US 20140173398A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,147 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

Systems and techniques for producing graphical user interfaces on handheld mobile devices include generating a markup language code defining a graphical user interface component for display on the handheld mobile device and rendering the generated markup language code to produce the graphical user interface component. In some cases, the graphical user interface component includes at least one adaptable attribute based on a selection made by a user. In other cases, a graphical user interface component is generated using static markup language code or a combination of static and dynamically generated markup language code. Graphical user interface components defined by markup language codes can be displayed in an overall graphical user interface along with components that are native to the device and/or that are defined by an application development platform.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing software comprising instructions executable by one or more computers which, upon such execution, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

generating markup language code locally on a mobile device, the markup language code that is generated locally on the mobile device defining a graphical user interface component for display on the mobile device, the graphical user interface component including at least one adaptable attribute based on a selection made by a user on the mobile device; and

rendering, by the mobile device, the markup language code that is generated locally on the mobile device to produce the graphical user interface component.

2. The medium of claim 1, wherein the operations comprise:

receiving a request to generate markup language code defining the graphical user interface component, wherein the request is generated by a particular application stored on the mobile device, the request defining at least one parameter for the graphical user interface component.

3. The medium of claim 2, wherein generating markup language code locally on a mobile device comprises:

generating markup language code locally on the mobile device for rendering on the mobile device based at least in part on the at least one parameter.

4. The medium of claim 1, wherein rendering the markup language code that is generated locally on the mobile device comprises:

rendering the markup language code that is generated locally on the mobile device to produce the graphical user interface component for display on the mobile device.

5. The medium of claim 1, wherein the markup language code that is generated locally on the mobile device includes hypertext markup language code.

6. The medium of claim 1, wherein generating markup language code locally on the mobile device comprises:

dynamically generating hypertext markup language code segments; and

incorporating hypertext markup language code fragments stored on the mobile device into the dynamically generated hypertext markup language code segments.

7. The medium of claim 1, wherein:

the selection is made through an interaction with an application running on the mobile device; and

the graphical user interface component is displayed on the mobile device using the application.

8. The medium of claim 1, wherein the at least one adaptable attribute is selected from the group consisting of a size, a color, a shape, a format, and a text.

9. The medium of claim 1, wherein the operations comprise:

displaying a graphical user interface component defined by an application development platform on the mobile device.

10. A system comprising:

one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising;

generating markup language code locally on a mobile device for use by an application stored on the mobile device; and

rendering, by the mobile device, the markup language code that is generated locally on the mobile device to produce a graphical user interface component for display on the mobile device by the application, the graphical user interface component associated with a functionality of the application.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the operations comprise:

providing a particular application including instructions for sending a request to generate the markup language code that is generated locally on the mobile device defining the graphical user interface component, the request including an identification of a state of at least one variable.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein generating markup language code locally on the mobile device comprises:

generating the markup language code locally on the mobile device based at least in part on the state of the at least one variable.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein generating markup language code locally on the mobile device further comprises storing the markup language code that is generated locally on the mobile device in a file stored on the mobile device and associated with the application.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing software comprising instructions executable by one or more computers which, upon such execution, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

displaying a predefined user interface component in a graphical user interface for an application, wherein the predefined user interface component is defined by an application development platform for a mobile device;

generating markup language code locally on the mobile device, the markup language code that is generated locally on the mobile device defining a markup language user interface component on the mobile device; and

displaying, in the graphical user interface for the application, the markup language user interface component that is defined by the markup language code that is generated locally on the mobile device.

15. The medium of claim 14, wherein the markup language user interface component that is defined by the markup language code that is generated locally on the mobile device is based at least in part on at least one parameter defined in a request from the application.

16. The medium of claim 14, wherein the operations comprise:

producing the markup language user interface component by rendering the markup language code that is generated locally on the mobile device.

17. The medium of claim 14, wherein the markup language user interface component that is defined by the markup language code that is generated locally on the mobile device provides for user interaction with the application.

18. The medium of claim 14, wherein the predefined user interface component defined by the application development platform comprises a mobile information device profile (MIDP) user interface component.

19. The medium of claim 14, wherein the operations comprise:

receiving user input based on a user interaction with at least one of the predefined user interface component or the markup language user interface component that is defined by the markup language code that is generated locally on the mobile device.

20. The medium of claim 14, wherein the operation of generating markup language code locally on the mobile device comprises generating the markup language user interface component using an application programming interface for rendering the markup language user interface component that is defined by the markup language code that is generated locally on the mobile device.