System, method and platform of establishing application program having capability of dynamically linking external dynamic link function

• US 9,817,640 B2
• Filed: 01/26/2016
• Issued: 11/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Evermore Technology Inc.
• Original Assignee: Evermore Technology Inc.
• Inventors: Jao, Jui-Chi, Chen, Yuan-Sheng, Huang, Wu-Hsiung, Weng, Tsu-Pin, Jiang, Jia-You
• Primary Examiner(s): Dao, Thuy
• Assistant Examiner(s): FRANCO, CHRISTOPHER J
• Application Number:
  US15/006,389
• Publication Number:
  US 20170083293A1
• Time in Patent Office: 658 Days
• 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 8/34 Graphical or visual programming
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/41 Compilation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/656 while running
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44521 Dynamic linking or loading; Link editing at or after load time, e.g. Java class loading
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

The present invention relates to a platform of establishing an application program for a mobile device providing a user to autonomously establish the application program having a capability of dynamically calling and loading a dynamic link function (DLF) library during execution. The platform includes a user interface shown by an internet browser; and a DLF module shown by the user interface and configured to provide the user to set in the application program a call and a linkage to the DLF library during the establishing process, wherein a user accesses to the platform to operate the DLF module to establish the application program through operating on the internet browser showing the user interface.

Claims

1. An application program establishing method for a mobile device by providing a user to autonomously establish the application program, which has a capability of dynamically calling and loading a compatible dynamic link function (DLF) library during execution, through operating on an internet browser showing a user interface provided by an application program establishing platform, comprising:

providing the application program establishing platform on a remote server, which the application program establishing platform comprises a DLF module shown by the user interface and is configured to provide the compatible DLF library for the user to use in and integrate into the application program during the establishing process; and

accessing to the application program establishing platform through a local personal computer connected to the remote server via an Internet connection and containing the internet browser, to operate the DLF module to establish the application program and to select the compatible DLF library to use during the establishing process through operating via the internet browser showing the user interface,

wherein the DLF module allows a hardware vendor to upload an original DLF library including a required protocol information for controlling an external device, transforms the original DLF library into the compatible DLF library including the required protocol information for controlling the external device, and publishes the compatible DLF library on the application program establishing platform available for the user to use during the establishing process, and the application program integrated with the compatible DLF library and running on a mobile device is particularly used for remotely controlling the external device from the mobile device.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising one of the following steps:

providing the platform by a platform provider;

providing the DLF module by a DLF provider;

by the platform provider creating and providing a DLF project comprising a program file and a first data file to the DLF provider, wherein the program file comprises a basic code frame having a basic code segment for communicating with the platform and the first data file comprises parameters, data and files called and employed by the basic code frame during execution;

by the DLF provider receiving the DLF project, programming a core code segment for performing a function for the DLF library, and saving the parameters, data and files called and employed by the core code segment into the first data file;

by the DLF provider operating the platform by operating on the internet browser showing the user interface to create the DLF module on the platform by following with a guidance from the platform and uploading the program file and the first data file to the DLF module by following with the guidance;

by the user operating the DLF module on the platform by operating on the internet browser showing the user interface to set the linkage and the loader to the DLF library in the application program to establish the application program by following with the guidance; and

by the platform provider compiling and packing the established application program into an executive program executable on the mobile device.

3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising one of the following steps:

by the DLF provider creating a second data file saving un-publishable parameters, data and files called and employed by the basic core code segment and the core code segment.

4. An application program establishing system for a mobile device by providing a user to autonomously establish an application program, which has a capability of dynamically calling and loading a compatible dynamic link function (DLF) library during execution, through operating on an internet browser showing a user interface provided by an application program establishing platform, comprising:

a remote server containing the application program establishing platform, wherein the application program establishing platform comprises a DLF module shown by the user interface and configured to provide the compatible DLF library for the user to use in and integrate into the application program during the establishing process; and

a local personal computer, connected to the remote server via an Internet connection and containing the internet browser, wherein the user accesses to the application program establishing platform to operate the DLF module to establish the application program and to select the compatible DLF library to use during the establishing process through operating on the internet browser showing the user interface,

wherein the DLF module allows a hardware vendor to upload an original DLF library including a required protocol information for controlling an external device, transforms the original DLF library into the compatible DLF library including the required protocol information for controlling the external device, and publishes the compatible DLF library on the application program establishing platform available for the user to use during the establishing process, and the application program integrated with the compatible DLF library and running on a mobile device is particularly used for remotely controlling the external device from the mobile device.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein the DLF module is provided and created on the platform by a DLF provider, and the DLF provider creates the DLF module through operating on the internet browser showing the user interface and opens and launches the DLF module created on the platform to all users for use and operation.

6. The system according to claim 4, wherein the personal computer is one selected from a desktop computer, a notebook computer and a tablet computer and the mobile device is one selected from a smart phone, a tablet computer, a phablet and a wearable device.

7. The system according to claim 4, wherein the internet is one selected from a cable network, a wireless network, a cloud network, a local area network (LAN) or a wide area network (WAN), a GSM network, a 3G network, a 4G network, a Wi-Fi network and a combination thereof.

8. The system according to claim 4, wherein the user is one of an application program developer and a DLF provider.