METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MAINTAIN ORDERED RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SERVER AND CLIENT INFORMATION

• US 20100325531A1
• Filed: 06/18/2010
• Published: 12/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Shenfield, Michael, Bibr, Viera, Fritsch, Laura Brindusa, Petronijevic, Dejan
• Granted Patent: US 9,043,694 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1246 by handling markup languages, e.g. XSL, XML, HTML
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/114 Pagination
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/468 Specific access rights for resources, e.g. using capability register

Abstract

Example methods and apparatus to maintain ordered relationships between server and client information are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves defining, via an extensible markup language (XML) schema for an XML document that is managed by an XML management document (XDM) server (XDMS), an attribute with a unique value such that every element within sequence of the XML document is consistently addressable.

Claims

1. A method performed by an extensible markup language (XML) document management (XDM) server (XDMS), the method comprising:

defining, via an XML schema for an XML document that is managed by the XDMS, an attribute with a unique value such that every element within sequence of the XML document is consistently addressable.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein each unique value corresponds to an index value associated with an element contained by sequence.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein sequence provides an XML representation of an ordered set of element types within the XML document.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the XDMS is compliant with the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) XDM Enabler specification.

5. A tangible computer readable medium storing instructions which cause a processor of a network apparatus to execute an XDMS that performs the method of claim 1.

6. A network apparatus comprising:

a processor executing an extensible markup language (XML) document management (XDM) server (XDMS), the XDMS being configured to define, via an XML schema for an XML document that is managed by the XDMS, an attribute with a unique value such that every element within sequence of the XML document is consistently addressable.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein each unique value corresponds to an index value associated with an element contained by sequence.

8. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein sequence provides an XML representation of an ordered set of element types within the XML document.

9. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the XDMS is compliant with the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) XDM Enabler specification.