Dynamic Data Presentation

• US 20070255811A1
• Filed: 04/28/2006
• Published: 11/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Falkenburg, Steven, Chan, Ada, Pettit, Bradley
• Granted Patent: US 7,664,813 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/220
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

Dynamic data presentation is described. In an embodiment, drawing instructions are captured as a template at a content provider, and the drawing instructions template is communicated to the computing-based client device that processes the drawing instructions to render a presentation layout in which the dynamic data can be displayed. In another embodiment, content is received at a computing-based client device where the content includes dynamic data and templates that each defines the presentation for a different dynamic data type. The client device determines the type of the dynamic data and selects a template to bind and present the dynamic data for display where the template is selected based on the determined type of the dynamic data. The dynamic data is then rendered for display based on the selected template at the computing-based client device. Subsequent updates to the dynamic data do not require re-downloading the presentation layout of the template.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving content that includes dynamic data and one or more templates that each defines a presentation for a different dynamic data type;

determining a type of the dynamic data;

selecting a template to bind and present the dynamic data for display, the template being selected based on the determined type of the dynamic data; and

rendering the dynamic data for display based on the selected template.

2. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a user-selectable input to initiate an update of the dynamic data;

communicating an update request to a content provider;

receiving additional dynamic data from the content provider; and

rendering the additional dynamic data for display based on the selected template.

3. A method as recited in claim 2, wherein receiving the additional dynamic data includes receiving the additional dynamic data from the content provider without the content provider having to re-transcode the presentation for the additional dynamic data.

4. A method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a request to update the display of the dynamic data;

communicating the request to a content provider;

receiving additional dynamic data from the content provider without receiving an additional template to bind and present the additional dynamic data;

selecting a different template to bind and present the additional dynamic data for display; and

rendering the additional dynamic data for display based on the selected different template.

5. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein receiving the content includes receiving additional dynamic data, the method further comprising:

determining a type of the additional dynamic data;

selecting a different template to bind and present the additional dynamic data for display, the different template being selected based on the determined type of the additional dynamic data; and

rendering the additional dynamic data for display based on the selected different template, the additional dynamic data being displayed along with the dynamic data in the display.

6. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein receiving the content includes receiving static data along with the dynamic data and the one or more templates, the method further comprising rendering the static data for display along with the dynamic data, and wherein the display generated from the static data is not updated when the dynamic data is updated.

7. A method as recited in claim 1, wherein the received content includes a set of drawing instructions that are transcoded at a content provider and from which a presentation can be generated, and wherein selecting the template includes selecting the set of drawing instructions to render the presentation for displaying the dynamic data.

8. A method, comprising:

transcoding a presentation layout into drawing instructions;

communicating the drawing instructions to a client device that processes the drawing instructions to render the presentation layout in which dynamic data can be displayed;

communicating the dynamic data to the client device that renders the dynamic data for display in the presentation layout;

receiving an update request from the client device to initiate an update of the dynamic data;

communicating additional dynamic data to the client device that renders the additional dynamic data for display in the presentation layout to update the dynamic data.

9. A method as recited in claim 8, wherein communicating the additional dynamic data to the client device includes communicating the additional dynamic data without having to re-transcode the presentation layout.

10. A method as recited in claim 8, wherein transcoding the presentation layout into the drawing instructions includes generating one or more templates of the drawing instructions using a markup language, and generating the one or more templates for different data types.

11. A method as recited in claim 8, wherein:

transcoding the presentation layout into the drawing instructions includes generating a template of the drawing instructions using a markup language; and

wherein,

communicating the drawing instructions includes communicating the drawing instructions to the client device that processes the drawing instructions without a markup language-based application to render the presentation layout for display.

12. A method as recited in claim 8, wherein transcoding the display presentation includes transcoding the presentation layout into a drawing instructions template that the client device can initiate to render the presentation layout.

13. A method as recited in claim 8, further comprising:

communicating one or more templates to the client device, the templates each defining a presentation for a different dynamic data type; and

communicating different dynamic data to the client device which determines the type of the different dynamic data, selects a template to bind and present the different dynamic data for display, and renders the different dynamic data for display based on the selected template.

14. A system, comprising:

a computing-based client device configured to maintain templates that each defines a presentation for a different dynamic data type;

a content rendering system of the computing-based client device configured to;

receive dynamic data;

determine a type of the dynamic data;

select a template to bind and present the dynamic data for display, the template being selected based on the determined type of the dynamic data; and

render the dynamic data for display based on the selected template.

15. A system as recited in claim 14, wherein the computing-based client device is further configured to initiate an update of the dynamic data, and wherein the content rendering system is further configured to:

receive additional dynamic data without receiving an additional template to bind and present the additional dynamic data; and

render the additional dynamic data for display based on the selected template.

16. A system as recited in claim 14, wherein the content rendering system is further configured to:

receive additional dynamic data without receiving an additional template to bind and present the additional dynamic data;

determine a type of the additional dynamic data;

select a different template to bind and present the additional dynamic data for display, the different template being selected based on the determined type of the additional dynamic data; and

render the additional dynamic data for display based on the selected different template.

17. A system as recited in claim 14, wherein:

the computing-based client device is further configured to maintain a set of drawing instructions to generate a presentation for the dynamic data; and

wherein,

the content rendering system is further configured to select and initiate processing the set of drawing instructions to render the presentation within which the dynamic data is displayed.

18. A system as recited in claim 17, further comprising a content provider configured to:

transcode the presentation into the set of drawing instructions;

communicate the set of drawing instructions to the computing-based client device;

receive an update request from the client device to initiate an update of the dynamic data;

communicate additional dynamic data to the computing-based client device without having to re-transcode the presentation; and

wherein,

the computing-based client device is further configured to render the additional dynamic data for display within the presentation.

19. A system as recited in claim 18, wherein:

the presentation is a page layout generated in markup language which the content provider is further configured to transcode into the drawing instructions and communicate to the computing-based client device; and

wherein,

the content rendering system is further configured to process the drawing instructions without a markup language-based application to render the layout within which the dynamic data is displayed.

20. A system as recited in claim 14, wherein the computing-based client device is a resource-constrained client device having at least one of:

limited processing capability;

limited memory resources;

limited network bandwidth availability.