Browser Micro-Application Container With Event-Driven Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing software products face challenges in scalability, maintenance, integration with modern systems, and extensibility due to being legacy, monolithic, and lacking extensibility, leading to cumbersome add-ons and complex user interactions.
Innovation Solution
Implementing micro-application environments within a browser container using a plug-in that enforces maximum dependency criteria and anonymous event publication, facilitating easy scaling, maintenance, and integration with other applications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a monolithic legacy software product is used, then the product can be effective at certain tasks, but it becomes difficult to scale, maintain, and integrate into modern products
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the monolithic legacy software into multiple independent micro-applications that can be developed, deployed, and maintained separately. Each micro-application encapsulates specific functionality, allowing the system to scale and integrate more easily while maintaining the reliability of individual components.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal container environment that can host multiple micro-applications with different functionalities. This container provides a standardized interface and runtime environment that enables various micro-applications to work together, enhancing overall system adaptability while preserving individual component reliability.
2Ease of repair
If extensive knowledge of the whole system is required to implement changes, then the legacy product can be maintained, but it becomes difficult to extend and modify
Solution Approach 1:
By dividing the system into independent micro-applications, the patent allows changes to be made in isolation within specific micro-applications without requiring knowledge of the entire system. This maintains ease of repair for individual components while enabling easy extension through addition of new micro-applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an event bus and message passing mechanism as intermediaries between micro-applications. This allows micro-applications to interact through standardized events without requiring direct knowledge of internal system architecture, simplifying maintenance while enabling extensibility through event subscription.
3Adaptability or versatility
If functionality is implemented on an ad-hoc basis, then the product can be customized, but it leads to difficult maintenance and upkeep issues
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments ad-hoc functionality into discrete micro-applications with well-defined boundaries and interfaces. Each micro-application can be customized independently through configuration and event subscription, maintaining adaptability while improving maintenance through modular isolation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables customization through configuration parameters and event subscription settings rather than code modifications. This allows ad-hoc functionality to be implemented by changing system parameters and configurations, maintaining customizability while significantly easing maintenance through non-invasive changes.
4Adaptability or versatility
If multiple custom applications and add-ons are used, then the product can be extended, but users need to navigate between several applications to complete tasks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple micro-applications into a unified container environment with a common user interface and shared event bus. This allows users to interact with multiple functionalities through a single interface, reducing navigation complexity while maintaining the extensibility of having multiple independent micro-applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The container provides a universal interface that can access and coordinate multiple micro-applications through standardized events. This enables users to complete tasks that span multiple functionalities without navigating between separate applications, maintaining ease of operation while preserving system extensibility.
Data Source
AI summary
A system, method, and computer readable medium for implementing micro-application environments is disclosed. The exemplary method includes providing a browser container (“browser”), and providing at least one micro-application for operating within the browser. The method includes providing a plug-in for the browser. The plug-in configured to listen to events originating in, or push events to, the at least one micro-application. The method includes storing, via the plug-in, documentation of events that each of the at least one micro-application subscribes to. The method includes determining, via the plug-in, occurrence of a first event, the first event being subscribed to by the at least one micro-application, and in response to determining the occurrence, generating, via the plug-in, a message to the at least one micro-application based on the event. The method includes executing, via the at least one micro-application, a new action in response to receiving the message.