US 10,956,179 B1Granted

Third party integration of plugins and widgets

AssigneeIntuit Inc.

InventorsTapasvi Moturu, Jessica Yen Yen Sperling, Anshu Verma, Muzaffar H. Malik, Carlos Ambrozak

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Abstract

This disclosure relates to third-party integration of native and platform-agnostic based software components into a third-party application. An exemplary method generally includes receiving, a workflow definition specifying one or more widgets to be loaded into a runtime environment, the one or more widgets comprising at least the first cross-platform widget. A runtime environment is instantiated for the first cross-platform widget. The runtime environment includes a bridge interface for facilitating communications between each widget in the one or more widgets and a second application. The first cross-platform widget is loaded into the runtime environment. When a communication between the first cross-platform widget and the second application is received, the communication is processed through the bridge interface. The bridge interface invokes an event at one or more of the first cross-platform widget or the second application based on the communication.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

a processor;
and
a memory comprising executable instructions, which, when executed by the processor, cause the system to:
receive, from an application server, a workflow definition specifying one or more widgets to be loaded into a shell executing within a given application, the shell comprising a runtime environment, the one or more widgets comprising at least a first cross-platform widget;
obtain, from the application server, the first cross-platform widget;
instantiate the runtime environment for the first cross-platform widget, the runtime environment including a bridge interface for facilitating communications between each widget in the one or more widgets and the given application, wherein the given application runs outside of the shell;
load the first cross-platform widget into the runtime environment;
process, through the bridge interface, a first communication to the first cross-platform widget running within the shell from the given application, wherein the first communication specifies a function to be invoked at the first cross-platform widget;
transmit, by the bridge interface, parameters for executing the function at the first cross-platform widget based on the first communication;
process, through the bridge interface, a second communication from the first cross-platform widget running within the shell wherein the second communication comprises a result of executing the function;
determine, by the bridge interface, that a condition has been satisfied based on the second communication;
and
transmit, by the bridge interface, a message to the given application based on the condition being satisfied.

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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions, which, when executed on a processor of a computing system, causes the computing system to perform an operation, the operation comprising:

receiving, from an application server, a workflow definition specifying one or more widgets to be loaded into a shell executing within a given application, the shell comprising a runtime environment, the one or more widgets comprising at least a first cross-platform widget;
obtaining, from the application server, the first cross-platform widget;
instantiating the runtime environment for the first cross-platform widget, the runtime environment including a bridge interface for facilitating communications between each widget in the one or more widgets and the given application, wherein the given application runs outside of the shell;
loading the first cross-platform widget into the runtime environment;
processing, through the bridge interface, a first communication to the first cross-platform widget running within the shell from the given application, wherein the first communication specifies a function to be invoked at the first cross-platform widget;
transmitting, by the bridge interface, parameters for executing the function at the first cross-platform widget based on the first communication;
processing, through the bridge interface, a second communication from the first cross-platform widget running within the shell, wherein the second communication comprises a result of executing the function;
determining, by the bridge interface, that a condition has been satisfied based on the second communication;
and
transmitting, by the bridge interface, a message to the given application based on the condition being satisfied.

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A method, comprising:

receiving, from an application server, a workflow definition specifying one or more widgets to be loaded into a shell executing within a given application, the shell comprising a runtime environment, the one or more widgets comprising at least a first cross-platform widget;
obtaining, from the application server, the first cross-platform widget;
instantiating the runtime environment for the first cross-platform widget, the runtime environment including a bridge interface for facilitating communications between each widget in the one or more widgets and the given application, wherein the given application runs outside of the shell;
loading the first cross-platform widget into the runtime environment;
processing, through the bridge interface, a first communication to the first cross-platform widget running within the shell from the given application, wherein the first communication specifies a function to be invoked at the first cross-platform widget;
transmitting, by the bridge interface, parameters for executing the function at the first cross-platform widget based on the first communication;
processing, through the bridge interface, a second communication from the first cross-platform widget running within the shell, wherein the second communication comprises a result of executing the function;
determining, by the bridge interface, that a condition has been satisfied based on the condition being satisfied.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.