Building of compound application chain applications

• US 9,733,915 B2
• Filed: 07/02/2015
• Issued: 08/15/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Rubin, Darryl E., Mital, Vijay, Abraham, Robin, Poozhiyil, Suraj T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Khatri, Anil
• Application Number:
  US14/791,141
• Publication Number:
  US 20170003943A1
• Time in Patent Office: 775 Days
• Field of Search: 717140-146, 717150-151
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/34 Graphical or visual programming
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/48 Incremental compilation software reuse G06F8/36
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4494 data driven
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/101 Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/103 Workflow collaboration or project management

Abstract

The incremental formulating an application in response to detecting events (such as user input) in an environment. Upon detecting one or more events, it is determined from this use input that an instance of a first transformation chain class is to be joined with an instance of a second transformation chain class. In response, the instance of the first transformation class is joined with the instance of the second transformation class along one or more data flow dependencies to formulate an aggregated instance. The aggregated instance may then be operated. This process may be repeated in response to different user input to thereby increase the size of the aggregated instance as more and more transformation chain instances join into the aggregated instance at appropriate chains of dependency.

Claims

1. A method, implemented at a computer system including one or more processors, for formulating an application from discrete transformation chain classes in response to events in an environment, the method comprising:

the computer system determining that one or more detected environmental events represent one or more instructions to join an instance of a first transformation chain class with an instance of a second transformation chain class;

in response to the determining, the computer system at least joining the instance of the first transformation class with the instance of the second transformation class along one or more data flow dependencies, appropriate for the one or more detected environmental events, to formulate an aggregated instance,

the computer system joining the first transformation chain class and the second transformation chain class to formulate an aggregated transformation chain class and instantiating an instance of the aggregated transformation chain class; and

the computer system operating the aggregated instance by causing data to flow from the first transformation chain class of the aggregated instance to the second transformation chain class of the aggregated instance.

2. The method in accordance with claim 1, the one or more events being a first set of one or more events, the aggregated instance being a first aggregated instance, the method further comprising:

the computer system detecting a second set of one or more events in the environment;

the computer system determining in response to the second set of one or more environmental events that an instance of a third transformation chain class is to be joined with the first aggregated instance; and

in response to the computer system determining in response to the second set of one or more environmental events, the computer system joining the instance of the third transformation class with the aggregated instance along one or more data flow dependencies to formulate a second aggregated instance.

3. The method in accordance with claim 1, the set of one or more events comprising user input of a user.

4. The method in accordance with claim 3, the user input being an expressed instruction to join.

5. The method in accordance with claim 3, the user input being user activity that is consistent with the joining of the instance of the first transformation class with the instance of a second transformation class.

6. The method in accordance with claim 1, further comprising:

the computer system deriving the first transformation chain class from an existing transformation chain class in response to the one or more events.

7. The method in accordance with claim 1, the first transformation class being a form of the existing transformation class but with one or more nodes being removed.

8. The method in accordance with claim 1, an act of joining comprising:

the computer system instantiating an instance of the aggregated transformation chain class.

9. The method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the act of determining comprises:

the computer system consulting a set of one or more rules defining one or more conditions for joining an instance of the first transformation chain class and the second transformation chain class.

10. The method in accordance with claim 9, wherein the set of one or more rules changes over time.

11. The method in accordance with claim 9, further comprising:

the computer system observing a history associated with a user, the set of rules depending on the history.

12. The method in accordance with claim 9, further comprising:

the computer system observing a history associated with a group of users, the set of rules depending on the history.

13. The method in accordance with claim 1, further comprising:

the computer system operating the instance of the first transformation class prior to detecting the one or more environmental events.

14. The method in accordance with claim 1, the one or more environmental events being a second set of one or more events, the method further comprising:

the computer system instantiating the instance of the first transformation class in response to detecting a first set of one or more events in the environment.

15. A computer program product comprising one or more computer-readable storage media having thereon one or more computer-readable media having thereon computer executable instructions that are structured such that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a method for formulating an application from discrete transformation chain classes in response to detecting one or more environmental events, the method comprising:

determining that the one or more detected environmental events represent one or more instructions to join an instance of a first transformation chain class with an instance of a second transformation chain class;

in response to the determining, joining the instance of the first transformation class with the instance of the second transformation class along one or more data flow dependencies to formulate an aggregated instance; and

operating the aggregated instance by causing data to flow from the first transformation chain class of the aggregated instance to the second transformation chain class of the aggregated instance.

16. The computer program product in accordance with claim 15, the method further comprising:

deriving the first transformation chain class from an existing transformation chain class in response to the one or more events in the environment.

17. The computer program in accordance with claim 15, the first transformation class being a form of the existing transformation class but with one or more nodes being removed.

18. The computer program in accordance with claim 15, an act of joining comprising:

joining the first transformation chain class and the second transformation chain class to formulate an aggregated transformation chain class; and

instantiating an instance of the aggregated transformation chain class.

19. The computer program product in accordance with claim 15, wherein the act of determining comprises:

consulting a set of one or more rules defining one or more conditions for joining an instance of the first transformation chain class and the second transformation chain class.

20. The computer program product in accordance with claim 19, wherein the set of one or more rules changes over time, the method further comprising:

observing a history associated with a user, the set of rules depending on the history.

21. A system comprising:

one or more processors;

one or more computer-readable storage media having thereon one or more computer-readable media having thereon computer executable instructions that are structured such that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a method for formulating an application from discrete transformation chain classes in response to detecting environmental events, the method comprising;

determining that the one or more environmental events represent one or more instructions to join an instance of a first transformation chain class with an instance of a second transformation chain class;

in response to the determining, joining the instance of the first transformation class with the instance of the second transformation class along one or more data flow dependencies to formulate an aggregated instance; and

operating the aggregated instance by causing data to flow from the first transformation chain class of the aggregated instance to the second transformation chain class of the aggregated instance.