Presenting data driven forms

• US 10,108,737 B2
• Filed: 01/25/2012
• Issued: 10/23/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Porras Luraschi, Javier Arturo, So, Alisa Yujin
• Primary Examiner(s): Baderman, Scott
• Assistant Examiner(s): Smith, Benjamin J
• Application Number:
  US13/357,622
• Publication Number:
  US 20130191713A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,463 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus

Abstract

Concepts and technologies are described herein for presenting data driven forms. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a user device obtains a resource referencing or presenting data driven forms and obtains data displayed or used by the resource. The user device stores the data in a cache accessible by the user device. The user device can render multiple views containing data from the cache. The user device can display one of the views and hide the other views from display. If the user device detects input for viewing other views, the user device can present one of the previously hidden views. The user device also can manage the cache and download additional data, if the cache empties or is not full.

Claims

1. A method to provide a web-based data driven form without use of a native application on a user device, the method comprising:

accessing, from a web server at the user device, a web page resource that is associated with data used in rendering the web-based data driven form at the user device that corresponds to the web page resource;

asynchronously caching, in a cache at the user device, data for rendering a predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form, the asynchronously caching being relative to the rendering of the predetermined number of views and resulting in a reduction of perceived latency in display of the web-based data driven form, a number of the predetermined number of views being based on an anticipated viewing speed or an anticipated rendering speed;

rendering, at the user device in a manner not visible to a user, the predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form using the cached data, each of the rendered predetermined number of views comprising a view of the web-based data driven form that includes at least portion of the cached data;

displaying a first of the rendered predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form and hiding other views of the rendered predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form;

detecting, at the user device, input corresponding to a command for displaying a second of the rendered predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form; and

in response to the detecting, displaying the second of the rendered predetermined number of views.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the input comprises a touch gesture detected at a touchscreen associated with the user device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the cache comprises an HTML cache.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the second of the rendered predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form comprises:

hiding the first of the rendered predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein hiding the first of the rendered predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form comprises displaying the first of the rendered predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form sliding out of a viewable space of a display device of the user device.

6. The method of claim 4, further comprising deleting the first of the rendered predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form, the deleting comprising removing the data corresponding to the first of the rendered predetermined number of views from the cache.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining if the cache stores additional data for rendering another web-based data driven form; and

in response to determining that the cache does not store the additional data, filling the cache with obtained data.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

rendering an additional web-based data driven form using the obtained data; and

hiding the additional web-based data driven form.

9. A computer storage medium having computer readable instructions stored thereupon that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform operations to provide a web-based data driven form without use of a native application on a user device, the operations comprising:

accessing, from a web server at the user device, a web page resource that is associated with data used in rendering the web-based data driven form at the user device that corresponds to the web page resource;

asynchronously caching, in a cache at the user device, data for rendering a predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form, the asynchronously caching being relative to the rendering of the predetermined number of views and resulting in a reduction of perceived latency in display of the web-based data driven form, a number of the predetermined number of views being based on an anticipated viewing speed or an anticipated rendering speed;

rendering, at the user device in a manner not visible to a user, the predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form using the cached data, each of the rendered predetermined number of views comprising a view of the web-based data driven form that includes at least a portion of the cached data;

displaying, at a display device of the user device, a first of the rendered predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form and hide other views of the rendered predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form;

detecting, at the user device, input corresponding to a command for displaying a second view of the rendered predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form; and

in response to the detecting, displaying the second of the rendered predetermined number of views.

10. The computer storage medium of claim 9, wherein determining whether input is detected comprises monitoring a touchscreen in communication with the user device for contact, and wherein the input comprises a touch gesture detected at the touchscreen.

11. The computer storage medium of claim 9, wherein the displaying the second of the rendered predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form comprises hiding the first of the rendered predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form.

12. The computer storage medium of claim 11, wherein hiding the first of the rendered predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form comprises displaying the first of the rendered predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form sliding out of a viewable space of a display device of the user device.

13. The computer storage medium of claim 11, wherein hiding the first of the rendered predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form and displaying the second of the rendered predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form are completed using data stored in the cache.

14. The computer storage medium of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining whether the cache stores additional data for rendering another web-based data driven form;

filling the cache with obtained data, in response to determining that the cache does not store the additional data;

rendering an additional web-based data driven form using the obtained data; and

hiding the additional web-based data driven form.

15. A system comprising:

a computer;

a display device; and

a computer storage medium having computer readable instructions stored thereupon that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform operations to provide a web-based data driven form without use of a native application on a user device, the operations comprising;

accessing from a web server at the computer, a web page resource that is associated with data used in rendering the web-based data driven form at the display device;

asynchronously caching, in a cache at the computer, data for rendering a predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form, the asynchronously caching being relative to the rendering of the predetermined number of views and resulting in a reduction of perceived latency in display of the web-based data driven form, a number of the predetermined number of views being based on an anticipated viewing speed or an anticipated rendering speed;

rendering, at the computer in a manner not visible to a user, the predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form using the cached data, each of the rendered predetermined number of views comprising a view of the web-based data driven form that includes at least a portion of the cached data;

displaying, at the display device, a first of the rendered predetermined number of views and hiding other views of the rendered predetermined number of views;

detecting, at the computer, input corresponding to a command for displaying a second of the rendered predetermined number of views; and

in response to the detecting, displaying the second of the rendered predetermined number of the views.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein determining whether input is detected comprises monitoring a touchscreen in communication with the computer for contact,

wherein the input comprises a touch gesture detected at the touchscreen, and

wherein displaying the second of the rendered predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form comprises hiding the first of the rendered predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form, and displaying the second of the rendered predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein hiding the first of the rendered predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form comprises displaying the first of the rendered predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form sliding out of a viewable space of the display device, and

wherein displaying the second of the rendered predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form comprises displaying the second of the rendered predetermined number of views for the web-based data driven form into the viewable space.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise:

determining whether the cache stores additional data for rendering another data driven form;

filling the cache with obtained data, in response to determining that the cache does not store the additional data;

rendering an additional data driven form using the obtained data; and

hiding the additional data driven form.