Automatic conversion schema for cached web requests

• US 8,060,486 B2
• Filed: 05/07/2008
• Issued: 11/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Chatterjee, Manjirnath, Simon, Gregory R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wong; Don
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, MERILYN P
• Application Number:
  US12/116,697
• Publication Number:
  US 20080281798A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,287 Days
• Field of Search: 707/716, 707/736, 707/756, 707/705, 707/722, 707/755
• US Class Current: 707/705
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5681 Pre-fetching or pre-delivering data based on network characteristics

Abstract

Various embodiments are directed to a proxy system for implementing an automatic conversion schema which allows data results from a publishing application to be extracted and displayed by a display application other than the publishing application. In one embodiment, a proxy publisher may receive a request from a publishing application to retrieve a data result from a data server. The request may include a path to the data server and appended publishing parameters. In accordance with the automatic conversion schema, the publishing parameters may comprise decode parameters associated with the publishing application for allowing a display application other than the publishing application to decode variables of the data result and to transform the decoded variables for display. The proxy publisher may cache the request including the appended publishing parameters and retrieve the data result from the data server. The proxy publisher may locally store the data result along with the cached publishing parameters and may respond to a query from a display application for data associated with the publishing application by providing the cached data result and the publishing parameters to the display application. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a request from a publishing application to retrieve a data result from a data server, the request including a path to the data server and appended publishing parameters, the publishing parameters comprising decode parameters associated with the publishing application for allowing a display application other than the publishing application to decode variables of the data result and to transform the decoded variables for display, the publishing application and the display application running on the same mobile device, the publishing application being a web-based application and the display application implemented as a screen of the mobile device outside of a web browser;

processing the request from the publishing application by caching the request including the appended publishing parameters and passing through the path to the data server;

receiving the data result from the data server; and

processing the data result from the data server by locally caching the data result with the cached publishing parameters for the publishing application.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the decode parameters comprise a variable name for addressing a parameter of the publishing application.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the decode parameters comprise data extraction rules for extracting variables from the data result.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the decode parameters comprise data formatting rules for displaying variables from the data result in a format used by the display application.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the decode parameters comprise private rules for preventing cached data result and publishing parameters from being read by certain applications.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the publishing parameters comprise an event parameter for waking the publishing application.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the publishing parameters comprise an event parameter for posting an alert.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising restricting use of offline capabilities in accordance with operating system security policies.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the publishing parameters comprise scheduling parameters for repeatedly requesting updated data results.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising passing the data result to the publishing application.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a query from a display application.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the query from the display application requests data associated with the publishing application.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the query from the display application requests cached data result and publishing parameters.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising processing the query by providing locally stored data results and decode parameters for allowing the display application to decode variables of the data result and to transform the decoded variables for display.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising processing the query by decoding variables of the data result using data extraction rules and providing the decoded variables and formatting rules for allowing the display application to transform the decoded variables for display.

16. A mobile computing device comprising:

a proxy publisher to receive a request from a publishing application to retrieve a data result from a data server, the request including a path to the data server and appended publishing parameters, the publishing parameters comprising decode parameters associated with the publishing application for allowing a display application other than the publishing application to decode variables of the data result and to transform the decoded variables for display;

the publishing application and the display application running on the mobile device, the publishing application being a web-based application and the display application implemented as a screen of the mobile device outside of a web browser.

17. The computing device of claim 16, the proxy publisher to process the request from the publishing application by caching the request including the appended publishing parameters and passing through the path to the data server.

18. The computing device of claim 17, the proxy publisher to receive the data result from the data server and process the data result from the data server by locally storing the data result with the cached publishing parameters for the publishing application.

19. The computing device of claim 16, wherein the decode parameters comprise data extraction rules for extracting variables from the data result.

20. The computing device of claim 16, wherein the decode parameters comprise data formatting rules for displaying variables from the data result in a format used by the display application.

21. A computer-readable storage medium comprising executable computer program instructions that when executed enable a computing system to:

receive a request from a publishing application to retrieve a data result from a data server, the request including a path to the data server and appended publishing parameters, the publishing parameters comprising decode parameters associated with the publishing application for allowing a display application other than the publishing application to decode variables of the data result and to transform the decoded variables for display;

the publishing application and the display application running on the same mobile device, the publishing application being a web-based application and the display application implemented as a screen of the mobile device outside of a web browser.

22. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 21, further computing computer program instructions that when executed enable a computing system to process the request from the publishing application by caching the request including the appended publishing parameters and passing through the path to the data server.

23. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 21, further computing computer program instructions that when executed enable a computing system to receive the data result from the data server and process the data result from the data server by locally storing the data result with the cached publishing parameters for the publishing application.

24. A computer-readable storage medium comprising executable computer program instructions that when executed enable a computing system to:

send a request from a publishing application to retrieve a data result from a data server, the request including a path to the data server and appended publishing parameters, the publishing parameters comprising decode parameters associated with the publishing application for allowing a display application other than the publishing application, to decode variables of the data result and to transform the decoded variables for display,

the publishing application and display application running on the same mobile device;

the publishing application being a web-based application and the display application implemented as a screen of the mobile device outside of a web browser.

25. A computer-readable storage medium comprising executable computer program instructions that when executed enable a computing system to:

receive a cached data result and publishing parameters, the publishing parameters comprising decode parameters associated with a publishing application for allowing a display application other than the publishing application to decode variables of the data result and to transform the decoded variables for display;

the publishing application and the display application running on the same mobile device;

the publishing application being a web-based application and the display application implemented outside of a web browser on the mobile device screen.