US 10,705,805 B1Granted

Application authoring using web-of-sheets data model

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsAdam Bosworth, Ian Scott Eslick, Tatyana Mamut, Joseph Rozenfeld

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Abstract

Representations of a set of cards are displayed via an application authoring interface. A given card represents one or more screen layouts of an application, and contents of a particular card are based on contents of a data sheet materialized in accordance with a data model which enables automatic instantiation of child data sheets associated with a parent cell within a parent data sheet. In response to detecting an edit operation directed at a particular card, an updated representation of the particular card is displayed at the first application authoring interface, and a screen layout corresponding to the updated representation is rendered at a particular mobile computing device.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system, comprising:

one or more computing devices of an application authoring service;
wherein the one or more computing devices include instructions that upon execution on a processor cause the one or more computing devices to:
determine that a particular mobile computing device is designated as a live previewing and editing environment for an application;
cause respective representations of at least (a) one or more cards and (b) an expanded view of a particular card of the one or more cards to be displayed via a first application authoring interface, wherein individual ones of the one or more cards represent respective sets of one or more screen layouts of the application, wherein displayed contents of the particular card are based at least in part on contents of a child data sheet of a cell of a parent data sheet of a data sheet collection, wherein the data sheet collection is organized according to a data model which supports (a) automated instantiation of child data sheets and (b) referencing of contents of one or more cells of a particular data sheet via a proxy cell;
in response to detecting an edit operation directed at a particular screen layout represented by the particular card,
update the representation of the particular card according to the edit operation to the particular screen layout;
store a result of the edit operation at a repository associated with the application authoring service;
cause the updated representation of the particular card according to the edit operation to be displayed at the first application authoring interface;
and
cause the particular screen layout corresponding to the updated representation according to the edit operation to be rendered at the particular mobile computing device.

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A method, comprising:

performing, by one or more computing devices:
causing respective representations of at least one or more cards to be displayed via a first application authoring interface, wherein individual ones of the one or more cards represent respective sets of one or more screen layouts of an application being authored, wherein displayed contents of a particular card of the one or more cards are based at least in part on contents of a particular data sheet for which a proxy cell in another data sheet has been designated;
in response to detecting an edit operation directed at a screen layout represented by the particular card,
updating the representation of the particular card according to the edit operation to the screen layout;
causing the updated representation of the particular card according to the edit operation to be displayed at the first application authoring interface;
and
causing the screen layout corresponding to the updated representation according to the edit operation to be rendered at a particular mobile computing device designated as a live interaction environment for the application.

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A non-transitory computer-accessible storage medium storing program instructions that when executed on one or more processors cause the one or more processors to:

cause respective representations of at least one or more cards to be displayed via a first application authoring interface, wherein individual ones of the one or more cards represent respective sets of one or more screen layouts of an application being authored, wherein displayed contents of a particular card of the one or more cards are based at least in part on contents of one or more data sheets stored at a repository;
in response to detecting an edit operation directed at a particular screen layout represented by the particular card,
update the representation of the particular card according to the edit operation to the screen layout;
cause the updated representation of the particular card according to the edit operation to be displayed at the first application authoring interface;
and
cause the screen layout corresponding to the updated representation according to the edit operation to be rendered at a particular mobile computing device designated as a live interaction environment for the mobile application.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.