Dynamic configuration of multi-platform applications

• US 10,542,121 B2
• Filed: 08/14/2017
• Issued: 01/21/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Original Assignee: eBay Inc.
• Inventors: Liu, Allen Yihren, King, Philip J., Agrawal, Ajay K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Goodchild, William J.
• Application Number:
  US15/676,204
• Publication Number:
  US 20180013859A1
• Time in Patent Office: 890 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

A system communicates a client application and a web application and receives configuration data operable within the web application and the client application. The system distributes the configuration data to the client application and the web application. The distributed configuration data is then used to configure the client application and the web application.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving configuration data at a first computing device associated with a first operating system;

activating a first user interface component of a first programmatic module within a first application responsive to receiving the configuration data;

changing an appearance of the first application of the first computing device responsive to the activating the first user interface component, the changing the appearance of the first application being without the first computing device changing a first executable file associated with the first application; and

generating a first programmatic response responsive to receiving a selection of the first user interface component of the first programmatic module of the first application, the first programmatic response including processing input/output, respectively, at the first computing device, the processing the input/output is associated with a graphical user interface.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising activating or deactivating the first programmatic module within the first application responsive to receiving the configuration data.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising deactivating the first user interface component of the first programmatic module within the first application.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first user interface component includes a text box that is enabled for selection, and wherein the receiving the selection of the first user interface component includes receiving a selection of the text box being presented on the graphical user interface, and wherein the first programmatic response to the receiving the selection includes processing values being communicated as input/output via the text box via the graphical user interface via the first computing device, and wherein the values include alphanumeric values.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

validating a first input received by the first computing device based on the configuration data.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

sending first login information, the sending being from the first computing device; and

receiving first privileged information at the first computing device responsive to the sending the first login information.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

sending a request for a configuration data version status of the first application; and

receiving the configuration data version status of the first application.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, further comprising:

identifying the configuration data version status of the first application is out-of-date; and

sending a request for additional configuration data responsive to the identification of the first configuration data version status of the first application being out-of-date.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first computing device is a web server and the first application is a web application.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the first computing device is a first client device and the first application is a browser application having wide-area network access.

11. A computing system, comprising:

one or more processors; and

memory including instructions that, upon execution by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform operations comprising;

receiving configuration data at a first computing device associated with a first operating system;

activating a first user interface component of a first programmatic module within a first application responsive to the receipt of the configuration data;

changing an appearance of the first application of the first computing device responsive to the activation of the first user interface component, the change of the appearance of the first application being without the first computing device changing a first executable file associated with the first application; and

generating a first programmatic response responsive to receiving a selection of the first user interface component of the first programmatic module of the first application, the first programmatic response including processing input/output, respectively, at the first computing device, the processing the input/output is associated with a graphical user interface.

12. The computing system of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise activating or deactivating a programmatic module within the first application responsive to receipt of the configuration data.

13. The computing system of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise deactivating the first user interface component of the first programmatic module within the first application.

14. The computing system of claim 11, wherein the first user interface component includes a text box that is enabled for selection, and wherein the receiving the selection of the first user interface component includes receiving a selection of the text box being presented on the graphical user interface, and wherein the first programmatic response to the receiving the selection includes processing values being communicated as input/output via the text box via the graphical user interface via the first computing device, and wherein the values include alphanumeric values.

15. The computing system of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise:

validating a first input received by the first computing device based on the configuration data.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, upon execution by one or more processors of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:

receiving configuration data at a first computing device associated with a first operating system;

activating a first user interface component of a first programmatic module within a first application responsive to the receipt of the configuration data;

changing an appearance of the first application of the first computing device responsive to the activation of the first user interface component, the change of the appearance of the first application being without the first computing device changing a first executable file associated with the first application;

generating a first programmatic response responsive to receipt of a selection of the first user interface component of the first programmatic module of the first application, the first programmatic response including processing input/output, respectively, at the first computing device, the processing the input/output is associated with a graphical user interface.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the operations further comprise:

sending first login information from the first computing device; and

receiving first privileged information at the first computing device responsive to the send of the first login information.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the operations further comprise:

requesting a first configuration data version status of the first application; and

receiving the first configuration data version status of the first application.

19. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the operations further comprise:

identifying the first configuration data version status of the first application is out-of-date; and

requesting a second configuration data responsive to the identification of the first configuration data version status of the first application being out-of-date.

20. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the first computing device is a web server and the first application is a web application.