Dynamic execution environment in network communications

• US 9,300,745 B2
• Filed: 07/27/2012
• Issued: 03/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Synactive, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Synactive, Inc.
• Inventors: Ewe, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Wang, Liangche A
• Assistant Examiner(s): NDIAYE, CHEIKH T
• Application Number:
  US13/560,204
• Publication Number:
  US 20140033062A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,341 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709/204, 709/205, 715/744, 715/764, 715/765, 715/766, 715/767, 715/768, 715/769
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/045 for graphical visualisation of monitoring data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/561 Adding application-functional data or data for application control, e.g. adding metadata

Abstract

A computer-implemented system and method for providing a dynamic execution environment. In an embodiment, the system and method comprises receiving a base user interface from a server, creating and storing one or more intermediate representations (IRs) which represent a mapping between the base user interface and a modified user interface, executing the one or more IRs to intercept network communication from the server, map between the base user interface and the modified user interface, and send the modified user interface to one or more clients, and executing the one or more IRs to intercept network communication from the one or more clients to the server with user data, map between the modified user interface and the base user interface, and send the base user interface and the user data to the server.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for providing a dynamic execution environment, the method comprising, by at least one hardware processor:

receiving a base user interface from a server;

processing modifications on the base user interface to generate a modified user interface;

creating and storing one or more intermediate representations (IRs) which represent a mapping between the base user interface and the modified user interface, each of the IRs representative of a creation of a user interface object representative of the modifications on the base user interface, wherein the one or more IRs are composed of one or more scripts;

executing the one or more IRs to intercept a network communication from the server, map between the base user interface and the modified user interface, and send the modified user interface to one or more clients; and

executing the one or more IRs to intercept a network communication comprising user data from the one or more clients, map between the modified user interface and the base user interface, and send the base user interface and the user data to the server.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the modified user interface comprises at least one of a drag-and-drop operation, a deletion, a label change, or a font change.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more scripts are encoded in a scripted programming language.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more IRs are executed in a sequential order corresponding to an order in which one or more modifications were made to the base user interface to generate the modified user interface.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising upon determining that a portion of the user data is invalid, the dynamic execution environment executes one or more IRs to provide the modified user interface, the user data, and error data to the one or more clients.

6. An apparatus for providing a dynamic execution environment, the apparatus comprising:

an execution environment for receiving a base user interface from a server, and for processing modifications on the base user interface to generate a modified user interface;

an intermediate representation module (IRM) coupled to the execution environment for creating and storing one or more intermediate representations (IRs) mapping between the base user interface and the modified user interface, each of the IRs representative of a creation of a user interface object representative of the modifications on the base user interface, and sending the modified user interface to one or more clients, wherein the one or more IRs are composed of one or more scripts; and

an event trapping mechanism for executing the one or more intermediate representations (IRs) to intercept network communication comprising user data between the server and the one or more clients, executing one or more event handlers associated with a modification in the modified user interface, and communicating with the intermediate representation module to perform mappings between the modified user interface and the base user interface, and sending the base user interface and the user data to the server.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the modified user interface comprises at least one of a drag-and-drop operation, a deletion, a label change, or a font change.

8. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the one or more scripts are encoded in a scripted programming language.

9. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the one or more IRs are executed in a sequential order corresponding to an order in which one or more modifications were made to the base user interface to generate the modified user interface.

10. The apparatus of claim 6, further comprising upon determining that a portion of user data is invalid, the dynamic execution environment executes one or more IRs to provide the modified user interface, the user data, and error data to the one or more clients.