Smart mobile application development platform

• US 9,141,926 B2
• Filed: 04/23/2014
• Issued: 09/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/23/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kofax Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Kofax Incorporated
• Inventors: Kilby, Steven, Macciola, Anthony, Amtrup, Jan W., Orcutt, Bruce
• Primary Examiner(s): DAO, THUY CHAN
• Application Number:
  US14/259,866
• Publication Number:
  US 20140317595A1
• Time in Patent Office: 517 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5866 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, manually generated location and time information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/2431 Multiple classes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/70 Software maintenance or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06316 Sequencing of tasks or work
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0833 Tracking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/10 specially adapted for electronic funds transfer [EFT] systems; specially adapted for home banking systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/03 Credit; Loans; Processing thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/08 Insurance
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/205 Education administration or guidance
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/10 Terrestrial scenes scenes under surveillance with static cameras G06V20/52; scenes perceived from the exterior of a vehicle G06V20/56; scenes perceived from the interior of a vehicle G06V20/59
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 2201/10 Recognition assisted with metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information

Abstract

A method includes receiving user input defining a workflow comprising one or more activities and one or more rules; receiving user input defining a user interface (UI) configured to facilitate a user performing the workflow at least in part using a processor of a mobile device; and generating a mobile software application based on the workflow and the UI. In another embodiment, a method includes: instantiating a mobile application on a mobile device; launching a workflow within the mobile application, the workflow comprising one or more activities and one or more rules; rendering one or more user interfaces based at least in part on the workflow; displaying at least one of the user interfaces on a display of the mobile device; receiving user input via at least one of the user interfaces; and modifying the workflow based at least partially on user input. Systems and computer program products are also disclosed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving user input defining a workflow comprising one or more activities and one or more rules;

receiving user input defining a user interface (UI) configured to facilitate a user performing the workflow at least in part using a processor of a mobile device; and

generating a mobile software application based on the workflow and the UI,

wherein the workflow is configured to;

process digital image data based at least in part on the activities and the rules; and

classify an object represented in the digital image data, the classifying comprising;

generating a feature vector based on the digital image data;

comparing the feature vector to a plurality of reference feature matrices; and

classifying the object depicted in the digital image data as a member of a particular object class based at least in part on the comparison.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the activities comprise one or more of interactive activities and non-interactive activities.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the one or more rules facilitate performing one or more of the activities according to either:

a static processing scheme or a dynamic processing scheme.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein at least one of the rules invokes an image capture activity utilizing the mobile device.

5. The method as recited in claim 4, wherein the one or more rules invoke the image capture activity in response to receiving environmental stimuli from at least one integrated hardware component of the mobile device, and

wherein the environmental stimuli indicate one or more of an orientation and a stability of the mobile device.

6. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein one or more rules facilitate performing one or more of the activities based on one or more stimuli, and wherein the stimuli comprise one or more of external stimuli and environmental stimuli.

7. The method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

querying one or more hardware components of the mobile device for metadata relating to the digital image data; and

receiving the metadata from one or more of the hardware components.

8. The method as recited in claim 7, wherein the metadata comprise one or more of:

a mobile device geographical location,

a date,

a time,

a mobile device orientation,

a mobile device acceleration vector,

an audio recording,

a video recording,

a digital image,

one or more alphanumeric characters, and

user input.

9. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the workflow utilizes one or more of native mobile device services and server services.

10. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the digital image data represents a document.

11. The method as recited in claim 10, further comprising capturing the digital image data,

wherein the user input defining the workflow relates to the document,

wherein the user input defining the user interface relates to the document, and

wherein the workflow is configured to process the digital image data utilizing one or more of native mobile device services and server services.

12. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the digital image data represents a document having one or more unique characteristics, and

wherein the workflow is configured to classify the document according to at least one of the unique characteristics.

13. A method, comprising:

instantiating a mobile application on a mobile device;

launching a workflow within the mobile application, the workflow comprising one or more activities and one or more rules;

rendering one or more user interfaces based at least in part on the workflow;

displaying at least one of the user interfaces on a display of the mobile device;

receiving user input via at least one of the user interfaces; and

modifying the workflow based at least in part on the user input,

wherein the workflow is configured to;

process digital image data captured using a camera of the mobile device;

query one or more integrated hardware components of the mobile device for metadata relating to the digital image data; and

receive the metadata from one or more of the integrated hardware components.

14. The method as recited in claim 13, wherein modifying the workflow comprises interfacing the mobile application with a mobile application development platform.

15. The method as recited in claim 13, wherein the workflow utilizes one or more of native mobile device services and server services.

16. The method as recited in claim 13, wherein the digital image data comprises a digital representation of a document.

17. The method as recited in claim 13, wherein the workflow is configured to process digital image data based at least in part on the activities and the rules.

18. The method as recited in claim 13, wherein the activities comprise one or more of interactive activities and non-interactive activities.

19. The method as recited in claim 13, wherein the one or more rules facilitate performing one or more of the activities according to a processing scheme.

20. The method as recited in claim 19, wherein the processing scheme is either static or dynamic.

21. The method as recited in claim 19, wherein the processing scheme is partially static and partially dynamic.

22. The method as recited in claim 13, wherein one or more rules facilitate performing one or more of the activities based on one or more stimuli.

23. The method as recited in claim 22, wherein the stimuli comprise one or more of external stimuli and environmental stimuli.

24. The method as recited in claim 13, further comprising:

querying one or more hardware components of the mobile device for metadata relating to the digital image data; and

receiving the metadata from one or more of the hardware components.

25. The method as recited in claim 24, wherein the metadata comprise one or more of a mobile device geographical location, a date, a time, a mobile device orientation, mobile device acceleration vector, an audio recording, a video recording, a digital image, one or more alphanumeric characters, and user input.

26. A method, comprising:

capturing digital image data,

instantiating a mobile application on a mobile device;

launching a workflow within the mobile application, the workflow comprising one or more activities and one or more rules;

rendering one or more user interfaces based at least in part on the workflow;

displaying at least one of the user interfaces on a display of the mobile device;

receiving user input via at least one of the user interfaces; and

modifying the workflow based at least in part on the user input,

wherein the workflow is configured to process the digital image data,

wherein the digital image data comprises a digital representation of a document,

wherein the user input defining the workflow relates to the document,

wherein the user input defining the user interface relates to the document, and

wherein the workflow is configured to process the digital image data utilizing one or more of native mobile device services and server services.

27. The method as recited in claim 26, wherein the digital image data represents a document having one or more unique characteristics, and

wherein the workflow is configured to classify the document according to at least one of the unique characteristics.