Universal Application Framework Perspective Editor
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing role-based user experience technologies face scalability issues and inefficiencies due to the need for numerous purpose-specific apps, which leads to increased development time, costs, and resource consumption, as well as data integration challenges across apps operating on the same data sets.
Innovation Solution
A universal application framework with a universal frontend interface, universal backend interface, and a powerful configuration layer that allows for perspective-driven and non-perspective driven application parts, enabling UI designers to create and maintain perspectives without complex coding, and leveraging logical entities for data binding and layout configuration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If purpose-specific apps are built for each role and task, then users can access highly relevant and focused content with fast response time, but the number of apps grows exponentially leading to increased development time, costs, and resource consumption
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal application framework where a single purposeful application can serve multiple roles and tasks through configuration rather than requiring separate apps for each function. The framework provides universal components including a common data model, user interface elements, and business logic that can be configured to deliver role-specific functionality, thereby reducing the total number of applications needed while maintaining focused content delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The framework segments the application into configurable components including perspective-driven and non-perspective driven parts, allowing selective assembly of functionality for different roles and tasks within a single application structure, rather than creating entirely separate applications for each purpose.
2Adaptability or versatility
If numerous purpose-specific apps are developed to handle new roles and tasks, then comprehensive task coverage is achieved, but system complexity and resource requirements increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The universal application framework enables a single application to adapt to multiple roles and tasks through configurable parameters and perspectives, reducing system complexity by consolidating multiple purpose-specific apps into one versatile application that can be dynamically configured for different business needs.
Solution Approach 2:
The framework provides dynamic configuration capabilities where the application behavior, data binding, and user interface can be adjusted at runtime based on the specific role or task, allowing the system to adapt to different scenarios without requiring separate static applications for each case.
3Speed
If separate purpose-specific apps are built for different tasks, then each app can be lightweight and fast, but data integration between apps operating on the same data sets becomes challenging
Solution Approach 1:
The framework merges the data layer and business logic into a unified structure where a single purposeful application maintains a common data model and centralized business logic that serves multiple roles and tasks, eliminating data silos and integration challenges between separate apps while maintaining fast response times through efficient data access patterns.
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AI summary
A universal application framework enables efficient user purposeful interface (UI) application development with a novel perspective editor which itself can be an UI application. The perspective editor can be utilized to create perspectives, each of which can be specific to a purpose. UI applications thus developed can be mapped to the same target mapping which points to a technical application component of a frontend server of the universal application framework. The technical application component can provide action and navigation information for a part of the UI applications not specific to any purpose. A perspective is bound to logical entities such as a node representing rows from a table. The perspective can have a perspective type and a data view of the rows from the table in a layout. The perspective type controls which data view is usable in the perspective.