Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090204941 | IMPLICIT COMPOSITION OF COMPONENT BINDINGS - Component domains used to define a binding between various components associated with the component domain. The component domain tracks the various services to be imported by each component, and tracks the various services exported by each component. At runtime, rather than at compile time, the various interrelations between the components are bound using the service import and export data. Accordingly, depending on the components available and their characteristics, the bindings may differ. This permits applications to be much more flexible. | 08-13-2009 |
20090204942 | ITERATIVE COMPONENT BINDING - Component domains used to define a binding between various components associated with the component domain. The component domain tracks the various services to be imported by each component, and tracks the various services exported by each component. At runtime, rather than at compile time, the various interrelations between the components are bound using the service import and export data. Accordingly, depending on the components available and their characteristics, the bindings may differ. This permits applications to be much more flexible. In one implementation, the binding is performed iteratively. For example, if after one iteration of binding service imports to service exports, some components may expand the services that they export, or the services that they desire to import. | 08-13-2009 |
20100141658 | TWO-DIMENSIONAL SHADOWS SHOWING THREE-DIMENSIONAL DEPTH - Digital shadowing when rendering visual items (e.g., windows) at different virtual display levels (such as z-order levels). The rendering is based on the determination of a position and virtual display level for each of the visual items to be displayed. For those visual items that cast a shadow on lower-level in-shadow visual items, the determined position of the shadow-casting visual item is used to render the shadow on each of the in-shadow visual items differently depending on the corresponding virtual display level of the in-shadow visual items. In particular, the in-shadow visual item that has a lower virtual display level has a longer shadow cast by the shadow-casting visual item than those in-shadow visual items that have a higher virtual display level. This allows the shadows to have a more natural look. | 06-10-2010 |
20100250623 | GENERIC EDITOR FOR DATABASES - Facilitating generic database editing to allow for data to be received from a user for entry into a database without requiring the data to conform to schema constraints for the database. A method includes examining a first schema for a first database. The first schema including a first set of constraints specified in the first schema on data to be entered into the first database. The method further includes, based on the examination, constructing a second database corresponding to the first database. The second database is associated with a second schema with a second set of constraints. The second set of constraints is a relaxed version of the first set of constraints specified in the first schema. | 09-30-2010 |
20110099188 | DATA FRAMEWORK TO ENABLE RICH PROCESSING OF DATA FROM ANY ARBITRARY DATA SOURCE - Accessing data in a data store at a field granularity. A method includes receiving a query from a user. The query specifies one or more non-unique fields of a record. The method further includes sending the query to a data store to retrieve the fields of the record at a field granularity. The method further includes receiving data for the one or more non-unique fields of the record at a field granularity. | 04-28-2011 |
20110113365 | SCROLLING LARGE DATA SETS - The display in a scrollable window of large data sets, which is not loaded into memory all at one time. Rather, a control module manages the scrollable window by repeatedly estimating data ranges of the data set that are to be either presently displayed or that may soon be displayed in the scrollable window. In response to each of at least some of such estimations, the estimated data ranges are then loaded into memory without loading the entire data set into memory. At least portions of the loaded data may then be displayed in the scrollable window. If the scrollable window is scrolled to a particular portion of the data set, but that portion of the data set is not yet loaded into memory, scrolling is permitted to that area even though the actual data is populated into the window after loading. | 05-12-2011 |
20110234637 | SMART GESTURES FOR DIAGRAM STATE TRANSITIONS - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for smart gestures for diagram state transitions. Embodiments of the invention expose a set of gestures and behaviors, which permit diagram transitions to be made with a reduced number of (and potentially a single) user gesture(s). For example, zoom levels can be toggled between a working zoom level and a zoom level sufficient to present an entire diagram and vice versa using a single user input gesture. Likewise, diagrams can be appropriately (and automatically) panned to make selected as well as newly created diagram elements visible in their entirety using a single user input gesture. | 09-29-2011 |
20120311533 | EDITOR VISUALIZATION OF SYMBOLIC RELATIONSHIPS - Enhancing dynamic code. A method includes obtaining one or more first data structures defining constructs in a body of dynamic language source code. From the one or more first data structures, identifier information is extracted for one or more of the defined constructs. Knowledge about the constructs is augmented. Using the identifier information and augmented knowledge, metadata about the body of the dynamic language source code is generated. The generated metadata is represented as a symbol table. The body of dynamic language source code is visually enhanced based on the symbol table structure. | 12-06-2012 |
20120323946 | DATA FRAMEWORK TO ENABLE RICH PROCESSING OF DATA FROM ANY ARBITRARY DATA SOURCE - Data is accessed and updated in a data store at a field granularity. A user query specifies one or more non-unique fields of a record. The query is sent to a data store to retrieve the fields of the record at a field granularity, in satisfaction of the query. The fields of the record can also be modified by transmitting a record ID along with original content, while omitting some of the record data, and by also including the modification to be made. | 12-20-2012 |
20130159968 | LANGUAGE SERVICE PROVIDER MANAGEMENT USING APPLICATION CONTEXT - A language service provider framework that generates an application context of a dynamic language program being authored. The application context includes a description of the dynamic language application being authored, one or more specific locations within the program, and runtime environment information. A language service provider port component holds one or more language service providers. Each language service provider may receive the application context and generate a set of available symbols corresponding to each of at least one of the identified one or more specific locations. A management component receives the application context from the application context generation component, provides the application context the language service provider, and correspondingly receives the available symbol set from the language service provider. Since the management component provides an application context that also includes runtime environment information, the available symbol set may be more accurately represented, thereby facilitating authoring of dynamic language programs. | 06-20-2013 |
20130173672 | GENERIC EDITOR FOR DATABASES - Facilitating generic database editing to allow for data to be received from a user for entry into a database without requiring the data to conform to schema constraints for the database. A method includes examining a first schema for a first database. The first schema including a first set of constraints specified in the first schema on data to be entered into the first database. The method further includes, based on the examination, constructing a second database corresponding to the first database. The second database is associated with a second schema with a second set of constraints. The second set of constraints is a relaxed version of the first set of constraints specified in the first schema. | 07-04-2013 |