Adaptive user-interface assembling and rendering

A computer-implemented method for adaptively selecting a user-interface component for rendering by an instance of an application executing on a client, comprising:

• collecting and storing information regarding the client, the information regarding the client being representative of at least client network bandwidth or client geo-location;
• based at least in part on the information regarding the client, retrieving at least one component rule from a component rule database;
• based on the at least one component rule, selecting user-interface components to include in or to omit from the user-interface of the application, and based on the selected user-interface components, retrieving a user-interface component from a user-interface component database;
• and
• based on the at least one component rule, assembling the retrieved user-interface component into a renderable primitive and transmitting the renderable primitive to the client for rendering by the application, or transmitting a template associated with the retrieved user-interface component to the client for assembly and rendering by the application, wherein assembly by the application comprises retrieving data after receiving the template and using the retrieved data to transform the template into the renderable primitive.

A computer program product comprising a computer-readable memory device having computer program logic recorded thereon that when executed by at least one processor of a computing device causes the at least one processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• collecting and storing information regarding a client device upon which an instance of an application is executing, the information regarding the client device being representative of at least client device network bandwidth or client device geo-location;
• based at least in part on the information regarding the client device, retrieving at least one component rule from a component rule database;
• selecting user-interface components to include in or to omit from the user-interface of the application, and based on the selected user-interface components, retrieving a user-interface component from a user-interface component database;
• and
• determining based on the at least one component rule whether the retrieved user-interface component should be assembled locally by the system, or assembled remotely by the application executing on the client device;
• in response to determining the retrieved user-interface component should be assembled locally, assembling the retrieved user-interface component into a renderable primitive, and transmitting the renderable primitive to the client device for rendering by the executing application;
• and
• in response to determining the retrieved user-interface component should be assembled remotely by the client device, transmit a template associated with the retrieved user-interface component to the client device for assembly and rendering by the executing application on the client device, wherein assembly by the executing application comprises retrieving data after receiving the template and using the retrieved data to transform the template into the renderable primitive.