Method and system for providing HTML-based application capable of controlling web action and client

• US 8,977,954 B2
• Filed: 01/29/2010
• Issued: 03/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
• Original Assignee: NHN Entertainment Corporation
• Inventors: Cho, Woo Sung
• Primary Examiner(s): DYER, ANDREW R
• Application Number:
  US12/696,885
• Publication Number:
  US 20100205548A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,866 Days
• Field of Search: 715/234, 715/760
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a method and system for providing an HTML-based application capable of controlling web actions and clients. The system includes an HTML skin-generating module to generate an HTML skin that includes instructions corresponding to business logic, and a script to control a skin according to the business logic. The system also includes an application drive file-generating module to generate an application drive file to interoperate with the HTML skin to execute the business logic.

Claims

1. A method of providing a HyperText Markup Language (HTML)-based application, the method comprising:

generating an application drive file, wherein

the application drive file is configured to hook information generated by the HTML-based application,

the application drive file is configured to execute business logic corresponding to the hooked information using an operating system component, the business logic being an argument set as an instruction to be hooked and executing control of a client instead of a web action, the web action being an action across the web from one site or application to another site or application and wherein

the HTML-based application comprises an HTML region and an application region, wherein

the operating system component is activated in response to execution of the business logic in the application region, and

wherein the business logic is executed when the hooked information is determined as an instruction corresponding to the business logic, and the web action is executed when the hooked information is determined as an instruction not corresponding to the business logic;

generating and storing an HTML skin configured to interoperate with the application drive file;

providing the HTML skin to a client, the HTML skin comprising instructions corresponding to the business logic; and

displaying the HTML skin in the HTML region, wherein the web actions and clients are controlled using the HTML skin by an interoperation between the HTML region and the application region, wherein the web action and the client are simultaneously controlled,

wherein the HTML skin is displayed over an HTML region and an application region of the application drive file, and

wherein the application drive file-generating module provides an HTML URL to the application drive file, and the HTML skin is provided from the HTML URL when the application drive file is launched.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the application drive file is configured to hook the information by using the operating system component.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the HTML skin comprises a prototype-based scripting language comprising capable of being called by the application drive file using the operating system component.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the business logic comprises a navigate argument.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the navigate argument is set as an instruction to execute control of the clients.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing the generated application drive file to the clients.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

receiving the uniform resource locator (URL) corresponding to the HTML skin from the clients; and

searching for the HTML skin in an HTML skin storage.

19. The system of claim 1, wherein a product of an execution of the business logic is displayed in the HTML skin.

8. A method of interoperating a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) region with an application region in an HTML-based application, the method comprising:

hooking information generated in the HTML region, wherein

the HTML-based application comprises a HTML region and an application region, wherein

web logic performed in the HTML region corresponds to a web action, the web action being an action across the web from one site or application to another site or application, and

business logic performed in the application region activates an operating system component that controls the HTML region, the business logic being an argument set as an instruction to be hooked and executing control of a client instead of the web action;

determining whether the information is an instruction corresponding to a web action or to business logic;

executing, in the application region, the business logic corresponding to the instruction, in response to a determination that the hooked information is an instruction corresponding to business logic;

executing, in the application region, web actions corresponding to the instruction, in response to a determination that the hooked information is not an instruction corresponding to business logic; and

displaying, in the HTML region, a result of the execution of the business logic, wherein the web actions and the HTML-based application of a client terminal are simultaneously controlled by an interoperation between the HTML region and the application region,

wherein the web action and the client are simultaneously controlled,

wherein an HTML skin is displayed over an HTML region and an application region of the application drive file, and

wherein the application drive file-generating module provides an HTML URL to the application drive file, and the HTML skin is provided from the HTML URL when the application drive file is launched.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the information is hooked by an operating system component comprising a component object model (COM).

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

calling a function of a prototype-based scripting language corresponding to the business logic using the operating system component.

11. A system for providing a HyperText Markup Language (HTML)-based application, the system comprising:

a non-transitory storage device; and

one or more modules, executable by a processor, the modules comprising;

a skin-generating module configured to generate an HTML skin and store the generated HTML skin in the storage device, wherein

the HTML skin comprises instructions directed to a web action and instructions directed to a business logic, the web action being an action across the web from one site or application to another site or application and the business logic being an argument set as an instruction to be hooked and executes control of a client instead of web actions wherein

the HTML skin is displayed in an area comprising;

an HTML region where web logic is configured to control web actions, and

an application region where the business logic is configured to activate a first operating system component configured to control the HTML region; and

an application drive file-generating module configured to generate an application drive file, wherein

the application drive file is configured to use a second operating system component to hook information generated by the HTML region and the application region, wherein

the second operating system component is configured to execute the business logic when the hooked information is an instruction corresponding to the business logic, and

the second operating system component is configured to execute the web action when the hooked information is not an instruction corresponding to the business logic, and wherein

the HTML region and the application region are configured to be simultaneously controlled by an interoperation between the HTML region and the application region,

wherein the system simultaneously controls the web action and client, and

wherein the HTML skin is displayed over the HTML region and the application region of the application drive file,

wherein the application drive file-generating module provides an HTML URL to the application drive file, and the HTML skin is provided from the HTML URL when the application drive file is launched.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the information is hooked by the second operating system component comprising a component object model (COM).

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the script comprises a prototype-based scripting language capable of being called by the application drive file using the second operating system component.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the business logic comprises a navigate argument.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the navigate argument is set as an instruction to execute control of the clients.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the application drive file comprises a uniform resource locator (URL) corresponding to the HTML skin.

17. The system of claim 11, further comprising:

an application drive file-providing module to provide the generated application drive file to the clients.

18. The system of claim 17, further comprising:

a uniform resource locator (URL)-receiving module to receive an HTML URL corresponding to the HTML skin from a client;

a skin request module to search for the HTML skin in the storage device; and

a skin-providing module to provide the HTML skin to the client.