Dynamic displays in a distributed computing environment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9110711-B2
Application number	US-201113304223-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 23, 2011
Priority date	May 9, 2000
Publication date	Aug 18, 2015
Grant date	Aug 18, 2015

Abstract

A mechanism for describing dynamic display objects in a distributed computing environment is described. A service in a distributed computing environment may generate results data for a client in response to client requests. The service may provide schemas describing the presentation characteristics of results data. The schemas may include information for use in presenting the results data. The results data may include data elements, and the presentation schema may include presentation elements each including information describing the presentation characteristics of one or more of the data elements. The client may map data elements to corresponding presentation elements from the schema, and may use the element corresponding to a data element to present the data element. Using the dynamic display objects, display behavior may be altered without having to rebuild code.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for presenting results data in a distributed computing environment, comprising:
performing, by one or more computers:
accessing a presentation schema in the distributed computing environment, wherein the presentation schema includes information for presenting results data for clients in the distributed computing environment;
accessing, over a network, from a source in the distributed computing environment, results data for a client in the distributed computing environment, wherein the information in the presentation schema has not been applied to the accessed results data prior to said accessing the results data, and wherein, prior to said accessing the results data, a service in the distributed computing environment generates the results data in response to the client sending a request message to the service to generate the results data; and
presenting the results data for the client in accordance with the information from the presentation schema, wherein said presenting comprises applying the information in the presentation schema to the accessed results data.

2. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the request message is in a data representation and requests the service to perform a function on behalf of the client language, and wherein the function generates the results data when performed by the service.

3. The method as recited in claim 2 , wherein the data representation language is eXtensible Markup Language (XML).

4. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein said accessing results data for a client in the distributed computing environment comprises receiving the results data from the service in one or more messages in a data representation language.

5. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein said generating the results data comprises the service storing the results data on a results space in the distributed computing environment.

6. The method as recited in claim 5 , wherein said accessing results data for a client in the distributed computing environment comprises accessing the results data from the results space.

7. The method as recited in claim 5 , wherein said accessing results data for a client in the distributed computing environment comprises:
providing a results advertisement for the results data stored on the results space, wherein the results advertisement includes information for enabling access of the results data; and
accessing the results data from the results space in accordance with the results advertisement.

8. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the presentation schema is provided by the service.

9. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the presentation schema is comprised in a presentation schema advertisement comprised on a storage device in the distributed computing environment, wherein the storage device is operable to store a plurality of presentation schema advertisements, and wherein said accessing the presentation schema comprises accessing the presentation schema advertisement from the storage device through a space service.

10. The method as recited in claim 9 , wherein the presentation schema advertisement is an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) document.

11. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the information for presenting results data in the presentation schema includes information to facilitate the presentation of results data to the client in an audio format.

12. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the information for presenting results data in the presentation schema includes information to facilitate the presentation of results data to the client in a visual format.

13. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the results data comprises a plurality of data elements, and wherein the presentation schema comprises a plurality of presentation elements each including information describing presentation characteristics of one or more of the plurality of data elements.

14. The method as recited in claim 13 , wherein each of the plurality of presentation elements further comprises information for locating the one or more data elements associated with the presentation element, and wherein said presenting the results data for the client in accordance with the information from the presentation schema comprises:
accessing a first presentation element in the plurality of presentation elements;
accessing one or more data elements associated with the first presentation element in accordance with the information for locating the one or more data elements included in the first presentation element; and
presenting the one or more data elements for the client in accordance with the information describing the presentation characteristics of the one or more data elements included in the first presentation element.

15. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein said accessing a presentation schema in the distributed computing environment, said accessing results data for a client in the distributed computing environment, and said presenting the results data for the client are performed by a data presentation process.

16. The method as recited in claim 15 , wherein the client is executing within a first device in the distributed computing environment, and wherein the data presentation process is executing within a second device in the distributed computing environment.

17. The method as recited in claim 15 , wherein the data presentation process accessing the results data comprises:
the client receiving the results data from the service; and
the client providing the results data to the data presentation process.

18. A non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium storing program instructions that when executed on a computer cause the computer to perform:
accessing a presentation schema in the distributed computing environment, wherein the presentation schema includes information for presenting results data for clients in the distributed computing environment;
accessing, over a network from a source in the distributed computing environment, results data for a client in the distributed computing environment, wherein the information in the presentation schema has not been applied to the accessed results data prior to said accessing the results data, and wherein, prior to said accessing the results data, a service in the distributed computing environment generates the results data in response to the client sending a request message to the service to generate the results data; and
presenting the results data for the client in accordance with the information from the presentation schema, wherein said presenting comprises applying the information in the presentation schema to the accessed results data.

19. A system, comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory coupled to the one or more processors, wherein the memory stores program instructions that when executable on the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to:
access a presentation schema in a distributed computing environment, wherein the presentation schema includes information for presenting results data for clients in the distributed computing environment;
access, over a network from a source in the distributed computing environment, results data for a client in the distributed computing environment, wherein the information in the presentation schema has not been applied to the accessed results data prior to said accessing the results data, and wherein, prior to said accessing the results data, a service in the distributed computing environment generates the results

Assignees

• Abdelaziz Mohamed M
• Slaughter Gregory L
• Traversat Bernard A
• Saulpaugh Thomas E
• Oracle Int Corp

Inventors

• Abdelaziz Mohamed M
• Slaughter Gregory L
• Traversat Bernard A
• Saulpaugh Thomas E

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