Adaptation of a web application for use by a mobile device

• US 11,099,840 B2
• Filed: 05/28/2015
• Issued: 08/24/2021
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Ben-Yair, Yoav, Fuchs, Gil, Gordon, Itai, Madar, Amitai, Magdalen, Josemina Marcella, Paikowsky, Oren
• Primary Examiner(s): Do, Chat C
• Assistant Examiner(s): Paulino, Lenin
• Application Number:
  US14/724,754
• Publication Number:
  US 20160041826A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,280 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/72 Code refactoring
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/76 Adapting program code to run in a different environment; Porting
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

Client side code of a web application can be received by a mobile device. The mobile device can automatically inject mobile aware code into the client side code of the web application. The mobile aware code can modify the client side code of the web application for use by the mobile device, wherein the client side code of the web application is not modified for use by the mobile device prior to the mobile aware code being injected. The client side code of the web application modified by the mobile aware code can be executed by the mobile device.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a mobile device, client side code of a web application;

automatically injecting, by the mobile device, using a processor, mobile aware code into the client side code of the web application, the mobile aware code providing to the client side code of the web application functionality simulating at least one user input feature of the web application that otherwise will not function for the web application on the mobile device by using an input feature of the mobile device, wherein the client side code of the web application is modified at the mobile device in response to the receiving; and

executing, by the mobile device, the client side code of the web application modified by the mobile aware code.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein automatically injecting, by the mobile device, using the processor, the mobile aware code into the client side code of the web application comprises overriding with at least one portion of the mobile aware code at least one portion of the client side code of the web application.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein automatically injecting, by the mobile device, using the processor, the mobile aware code into the client side code of the web application comprises configuring, by the mobile device, the client side code to load at least a first library optimized for use by the mobile device in lieu of a second library that is not optimized for use by the mobile device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein configuring, by the mobile device, the client side code to load at least the first library optimized for use by the mobile device in lieu of the second library that is not optimized for use by the mobile device comprises adding, by the mobile device, at least one statement to a window document object model (DOM) object of the client side code of the web application, the at least one statement configured to load the first library optimized for the mobile device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein automatically injecting, by the mobile device, using the processor, the mobile aware code into the client side code of the web application comprises injecting, by the mobile device, the mobile aware code into the client side code prior to an entry point for the web application finishing loading on the mobile device.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

querying, by the mobile device, a server hosting the web application inquiring whether the web application has been revised;

responsive to receiving a response from the server indicating that the web application has been revised, accessing, by the mobile device, a file containing information on revisions to the web application; and

revising, by the mobile device, the mobile aware code according to the file containing information on revisions to the web application;

wherein automatically injecting, by the mobile device, using the processor, the mobile aware code into the client side code of the web application comprises injecting, by the mobile device, the mobile aware code revised according to the file containing information on revisions to the web application.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

revising, by the mobile device, in real time, the mobile aware code by processing the file containing the information on the revisions to the web application.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the user input features that otherwise will not function for the web application on the mobile device are user input features for a touchscreen of the mobile device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the input feature of the mobile device is a newly defined input feature.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the input feature of the mobile device is a newly defined touchscreen gesture.