Generating excutable code from complaint and non-compliant controls

• US 9,727,636 B2
• Filed: 04/01/2014
• Issued: 08/08/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Owens, Kristofer John, Millington, Bradley D., Alexander, Brendyn, Goupil, Jean-Sebastien, Birck, Andrew, Forget, Andrew, Olenick, Brad, Welicki, Leon Ezequiel, Chen, Ming, Beckwith, Justin, Joshi, Vishal R., Danton, Stephen Michael, Cox, Tom, Bhojawala, Nafisa, Dias, Alvaro Rahul, Wong, Eric Hwa-Wei, Anson, David, Doan, Thao, Yuen, Wai Man, Joshi, Madhur
• Primary Examiner(s): Aponte, Francisco
• Application Number:
  US14/231,905
• Publication Number:
  US 20150095791A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,225 Days
• Field of Search: 717109, 717120, 715733-738, 715205-208, 715760
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2428 Query predicate definition using graphical user interfaces, including menus and forms G06F16/2423 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3329 Natural language query formulation or dialogue systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/34 Graphical or visual programming
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/452 Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4856 resumption being on a different machine, e.g. task migration, virtual machine migration G06F9/5088 takes precedence

Abstract

A hierarchy of controls and parts, that are each in accordance with constraints of a computing executing context. A control is executable code that performs a function and which may impart a visualization. A part is a unit of visualization container that has its own visualization and/or shows visualizations from one or more compliant controls associated with the part.

Claims

1. A computer program product comprising one or more computer-readable memory having thereon computer-executable instructions that are structured such that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a method for facilitating composition of a part that represents a visualized container executed within a computing execution context, the method comprising:

a user defining a part that includes a definition of one or more function set controls and one or more visualization setting set controls;

automatically determining that a first portion of the defined controls are compliant with a predetermined set of part constraints corresponding to the computing execution context, wherein a compliant control is one that is executable within the execution context, but that a second portion of the defined controls are non-compliant with the predetermined set of part constraints corresponding to the computing execution context, wherein a non-compliant control is one that is not executable within the execution context;

automatically generating at least one compliant control, for execution within the part, from the second portion of defined controls by configuration of the at least one non-compliant control; and

generating executable code that represents the part from at least the first portion that performs at least those portions of the function set controls that are compliant with the functional part constraints corresponding to the computing execution context, those portions of the visualization set controls that are compliant with the visualization part constraints, and from the at least one compliant control automatically generated from the second, non-compliant, portion of the defined controls.

2. The computer program product in accordance with claim 1, the act of defining a part comprising:

an act of referencing at least one control included in a set of controls, each of which a) satisfying a predetermined set of control constraints of the computing execution context, and b) being available for execution within the computing execution context.

3. The computer program product in accordance with claim 1, the act of generating performed so that the part executable code also performs a set of standard part functions not defined by the user and which are compliant with the part constraints of the computing execution context.

4. The computer program product in accordance with claim 1, the act of generating performed so that the part executable code also visualizes in accordance with a set of standard visualizations not defined by the user.

5. The computer program product in accordance with claim 1, further comprising:

an act of providing the part as part of an extension to a set of intrinsic part, the intrinsic parts being used for multiple domains within the computing execution context, and the extension being used for a subset of the multiple domains within the computing execution context.

6. The computer program product in accordance with claim 1, further comprising:

an act of submitting the part to a library manager of a set of intrinsic parts that each comply with the predetermined set of part constraints corresponding to the computing execution context.

7. The computer program product in accordance with claim 6, further comprising:

an act of accessing one or more intrinsic parts from the set of intrinsic parts, the set of intrinsic parts being available to multiple application developers.

8. The computer program product in accordance with claim 1, the part constraints comprising functional part constraints of the computing executing context.

9. The computer program product in accordance with claim 1, the part constraints comprising visualization part constraints of the computing executing context.

10. The computer program product in accordance with claim 1, wherein the automatic determination that the second portion of the defined controls are non-compliant with the predetermined set of part constraints corresponding to the computing execution context includes a part composition component configured to provide sanitation of the defined part.

12. The computer program product in accordance with claim 10, wherein the sanitation of the defined part includes filtering what scripts and styles can be in part templates and what classes can be in CSS style files.

11. A method for facilitating composition of a part that represents a visualized container executed within a computing execution context, the method comprising:

accessing a part that includes a definition of one or more function set controls and one or more visualization setting set controls;

automatically determining that a first portion of the defined controls are compliant with a predetermined set of part constraints corresponding to the computing execution context, wherein a compliant control is one that is executable within the execution context, but that a second portion of the defined controls are non-compliant with the predetermined set of part constraints corresponding to the computing execution context, wherein a non-compliant control is one that is not executable within the execution context;

automatically generating at least one compliant control, for execution within the part, from the second portion of defined controls by configuration of the at least one non-compliant control; and

in response to the act of automatically generating, generating executable code that represents the part from at least;

the first portion that represents the part and which performs at least those portions of the function set controls that are compliant with the functional part constraints corresponding to the computing execution context;

the first portion that represents the part and which performs at least those portions of the visualization set controls that are compliant with the visualization part constraints; and

the at least one compliant control automatically generated from the second, non-compliant, portion of the defined controls.