US 9,286,038 B2Granted

Interface development and operation

AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC

InventorsSebastian C Burckhardt, Manuel A Faehndrich, Michal J Moskal, Sean C McDirmid, Nikolai Tillmann, Jonathan Paul de Halleux, Jun Kato

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Abstract

Some implementations provide techniques and arrangements for interactive user interface operation and development. For instance, some implementations may generate a user interface data structure representing a user interface, the user interface data structure being generated based at least in part on state data and imperative programming code. Then, in response to a change in one of the imperative programming code or the state data, some implementations may update the user interface data structure and render an updated interactive graphical user interface based on the updated user interface data structure.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A computing system comprising:

one or more processors;
memory;
a user interface module stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processors to:
generate a user interface data structure representing a user interface as a side effect while executing or interpreting imperative programming code, the user interface data structure being generated based at least in part on state data and the imperative programming code, the user interface data structure including a tree structure comprising a plurality of nodes including one or more child nodes and one or more leaf nodes;
render, based at least in part on the user interface data structure, an interactive graphical user interface;
detect a change in one of the imperative programming code or the state data;
in response to the detected change, update the user interface data structure, the update comprising:
determining, for a statement of the imperative programming code corresponding to a user interface element, whether a first node is present in the user interface data structure that corresponds to the statement;
in response to determining that the first node is present in the user interface data structure, determining whether the user interface element or contents corresponding to the first node are changed;
and
in response to determining that the user interface element or contents corresponding to the first node are changed, modifying the first node based on the change of the user interface element or contents corresponding to the first node;
and
update, based at least in part on the updated user interface data structure, the interactive graphical user interface to render an updated interactive graphical user interface.

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A computer implemented method comprising:

under control of one or more computer systems comprising one or more processors and at least one memory, the memory storing executable instructions,
during execution of an application including a user interface, determining a change in one of programming code of the user interface or state data corresponding to the user interface;
and
updating a user interface data structure representing the user interface based at least in part on the programming code and the state data, the user interface data structure including a tree structure comprising a plurality of nodes including one or more child nodes and one or more leaf nodes, and the updating including:
determining, for a statement of the programming code corresponding to a user interface element, whether a first node is present in the user interface data structure that corresponds to the statement;
in response to determining that the first node is present in the user interface data structure, determining whether the user interface element or contents corresponding to the first node are changed;
and
in response to determining that the user interface element or contents corresponding to the first node are changed, modifying the first node based on the change of the user interface element or contents corresponding to the first node.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.