Intelligent Front End for On-Demand Mobile App Compilation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The proliferation of mobile devices with diverse execution environments and peripherals makes it challenging to maintain application compatibility, leading to users opting for older script engine versions due to version dependencies.
Innovation Solution
A compiler with an intelligent front end that optimizes and customizes application programs based on specific mobile device platforms, considering script engine versions, memory, peripherals, and display characteristics, allowing for on-demand compilation and deployment of customized applications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a single application version is maintained for multiple mobile devices, then development and maintenance complexity is reduced, but application compatibility and optimal performance across diverse execution environments deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the application into multiple versions tailored for different execution environments. The intelligent front end analyzes device characteristics and selects or compiles the appropriate application version, dividing the monolithic application into environment-specific variants that optimize compatibility and performance for each device type.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes compilation parameters based on execution environment characteristics such as script engine version, memory size, display resolution, and peripheral availability. The intelligent front end modifies compiler directives and include files to generate application versions optimized for specific parameter sets, resolving the contradiction between maintaining a single codebase and achieving environment-specific optimization.
2Reliability
If application is optimized for specific script engine version, then execution performance is improved, but compatibility with devices using different script engine versions deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal application package that contains multiple versions optimized for different script engine versions. The intelligent front end acts as a multi-functional selector that identifies the device's script engine version and delivers the appropriate application variant, enabling the system to maintain high performance for each engine version while achieving broad compatibility across versions.
3Adaptability or versatility
If pre-compiled versions are created for all possible device configurations, then application performance and compatibility are optimized, but storage requirements and compilation complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary analysis of the device's execution environment characteristics through the intelligent front end before application deployment. This preliminary action identifies the specific script engine version, memory constraints, display resolution, and peripheral configuration, enabling selective compilation or version selection without requiring pre-compilation for all possible device configurations, thus reducing storage requirements while maintaining optimization.
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AI summary
To accommodate different types and versions of execution environments on mobile devices, requests for applications from a programmable device, such as a smart phone or other mobile device include status data about the characteristics of the device. Information about the display, memory, storage, and/or script engine may be forwarded with a request. At a fulfillment server, the information is evaluated so that an appropriately versioned and configured application can be custom built, or selected from a pre-built inventory of applications. This allows a user to postpone an upgrade and still receive appropriate versions of executable, optimized to the particular mobile device.