Business model based on multi-level application widgets and system thereof

• US 9,542,700 B2
• Filed: 11/05/2008
• Issued: 01/10/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yu-Hua Chu
• Original Assignee: Yu-Hua Chu
• Inventors: Chu, Yu-Chung
• Primary Examiner(s): CASEY, ALEXIS M
• Application Number:
  US12/265,497
• Publication Number:
  US 20100114729A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,988 Days
• Field of Search: 705 261- 272
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]

Abstract

Provided is a business model based on multi-level application widgets and a system thereof, including: embedding, by a server, intended application widgets in an Internet platform equipped with a software application programming interface; providing a business protocol between an end user and the server, thus giving the end user authority to embed data sets in the application widgets and to conduct display, operation, sales, and real-time interaction within the same window; determining, by the end users, whether at least an application widget or a data set is to be embedded in each of the data sets again, so as to finalize the multi-level application widgets. Accordingly, the end user enhances promotion and thereby expands business on the Internet platform at the server.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for providing multi-level widgets, the computer implemented method comprising the steps of:

providing, by a server, application widgets to be embedded in a webpage of an Internet platform equipped with a software application programming interface;

selecting and loading, by the server, a list related parameter of the application widgets from a webpage on the Internet platform, wherein the Internet platform is linked to a database from which intended parameters of the application widgets are loaded and sent to application widgets via the webpage on the Internet platform;

embedding, by a client user, at least a data set provided by the client user in the application widgets, wherein the data sets embedded by the client are displayed on the Internet platform so as to be viewed by the client, wherein the data sets provide a business protocol between the client user and the server;

embedding selectively one of said application widgets in another one of said application widgets according to at least an editing message of the client user, so as to edit and finalize multi-level application widgets; and

wherein the data sets embedded by the client user display real-time interaction information;

wherein the multi-level application widgets are provided with a widget engine and a widget interface, and the widget engine receives the intended parameters, complies with the parameters received, and loads multimedia information of the widget interface of the multimedia application widgets, and the multimedia information loaded undergoes computation and conversion by a code of a programming application before being sent to the widget interface, and the widget interface displays the multimedia information and selected e-commerce information;

wherein the intended parameters are sent to the application widgets to enable the application widgets to start loading, and, upon receipt of event related information, the Internet platform sends the parameters to the application widgets so as to enable the application widgets to start operation;

wherein the data sets embedded by the client user display multimedia e-commerce information.

2. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the multi-level application widgets are embedded in a blog or a social networking website so as to develop a business system on the blog or the social networking website.

3. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the e-commerce information comprises Online shopping information.

4. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the Internet platform is one selected from the group consisting of a web browser, an operating system platform, and a mobile device.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the software application programming interface is one of an application programming interface (API) and a software development kit (SDK).

6. The computer implemented method of claim 1, wherein the multi-level application widgets have a tree data structure.

13. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium configured to be stored with a computer program for use in a business model performed with multi-level application widgets, wherein the method of claim 1 is performed to completion upon execution of the computer program loaded to an Internet platform equipped with a software application programming interface.

7. A system for performing a business model with multi-level application widgets, comprising:

a server for providing at least an application widget;

an Internet platform having a software application programming interface and a webpage to be embedded with the application widget by the server, wherein the webpage is loaded with a list of related parameters of the application widget;

a database linked to the Internet platform, wherein said related parameters of said application widget are retrieved from the database, put on the webpage of the Internet platform, and sent to the application widget by the server;

said application widget having a data set provided by an end user embedded in the application widget through the Internet platform, the data sets being displayed on the Internet platform so as to be viewed by an end user, and having at least an editing message for selectively embedding said application widget in another application widget so as to edit and finalize multi-level application widget; and

wherein the data sets embedded by the end user display real-time interaction information.

8. The system of claim 7, further comprising at least a blog or at least a social networking website, wherein the multi-level application widgets are embedded in the blog or the social networking website, to thereby develop a business system using the blog or the social networking website.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the data sets embedded by the end user display multimedia information.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the data sets embedded by the end user display e-commerce information.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the e-commerce information comprises Online shopping information.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein the Internet platform is one selected from the group consisting of a web browser, an operating system platform, and a mobile device.