Pixel perfect real-time web application framework

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Titel: Pixel perfect real-time web application framework
Patent Number: 11016,741
Publikationsdatum: May 25, 2021
Appl. No: 16/428912
Application Filed: May 31, 2019
Abstract: A system and methods for a real-time web application framework including a server controlled real-time web application with synchronized server components mapped to client widgets, a method for modal execution support in a real-time web application environment, a pixel perfect designer having a designer, an image renderer, and server components, the image renderer configured to render a client widget based on the properties of a server component, and a theming system implemented by the real-time web application during run-time.
Inventors: ICE TEA GROUP LLC (Washington, DC, US)
Assignees: ICE TEA GROUP LLC (Washington, DC, US)
Claim: 1. A method of generating and displaying pixel perfect representations of web application controls in design-mode, comprising: storing, in computer memory, at least one control having at least one graphical component representation as a bitmap image; storing, in computer memory, at least one image renderer, wherein the at least one image renderer is a rendering engine capable of rendering marked up content while outside a display area; configuring the at least one image renderer to receive a defined set of properties and render a digital image based upon the defined set of properties; storing, in computer memory, at least one designer capable of designing a web application, the at least one designer having a display area configured to display a graphical representation of the web application; defining properties within the at least one control, the properties enabling the at least one image renderer to render a corresponding image file based on the properties; and configuring the at least one designer to call the image renderer, in design-mode and without running the web application, to generate at least one digital image of the at least one graphical component of the at least one control; wherein the generating further comprises: determining, with the computer, when a user of the designer has added a new control to the web application or has changed a visual property of an existing control of the web application, responding, if the determination is positive, comprising: generating and collecting a set of properties from the at least one control, based on the properties of the control and needs of a run-time web client, entering, into a computer queue, at least one rendering request for the change in visual property of the at least one control, the rendering request having the set of properties, processing, with a computer, the rendering requests in the computer queue, comprising: finding and removing the rendering request from the queue, preparing a widget message definition describing the set of properties of the at least one graphical component, generating, with the at least one image renderer, an image based on the widget message definition; signaling, with the at least one image renderer, a Rendering Complete signal to the designer updating, with the designer, the display area by displaying the rendered image in the display area.
Claim: 2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the processing, with a computer, the rendering requests in the computer queue is performed asynchronously.
Claim: 3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the message definition is in JSON format.
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Primary Examiner: Patel, Manglesh M
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Steinfl + Bruno, LLP
Dokumentencode: edspgr.11016741
Datenbank: USPTO Patent Grants
Beschreibung
Abstract:A system and methods for a real-time web application framework including a server controlled real-time web application with synchronized server components mapped to client widgets, a method for modal execution support in a real-time web application environment, a pixel perfect designer having a designer, an image renderer, and server components, the image renderer configured to render a client widget based on the properties of a server component, and a theming system implemented by the real-time web application during run-time.