View virtualization and transformations for mobile applications

Abstract

Application mobilization has assumed importance given has assumed importance given the proliferation of smartphones amongst the enterprise workforce, and other users. Existing techniques to mobilize applications incur high overheads in terms of time, cost, and effort. Remote computing is a promising basis for application mobilization that has the advantages of zero code rewriting, full functionality applications, and seamless IT manageability. However, it has the major disadvantage of presenting a cumbersome PC application view on the smartphone. In this context the present invention, referred to as *Mobile, is described to perform dynamic transformation of application views for smartphones. Significant performance gains may be achieved by using this system and methodology.

1 . A method for transforming an application user interface to a mobile user interface on a mobile device, comprising:
 a. extracting application user interface elements from the application user interface;   b. virtualizing the extracted application user interface elements to generate a virtual view;   c. applying a sequence of transformations on the virtual view;   d. transmitting to the mobile device the transformed virtual view; and   e. rendering the transformed virtual view on the mobile device.   
     
     
         2 . A method for transforming an application user interface to a mobile user interface on a mobile device, comprising:
 a. extracting application user interface elements from the application user interface;   b. virtualizing the extracted application user interface elements to generate a virtual view;   c. applying a sequence of transformations on the virtual view; and   d. transmitting to the mobile device the transformed virtual view, whereby the transformed virtual view is rendered on the mobile device.   
     
     
         3 . A system for transforming an application user interface to a mobile user interface on a mobile device, comprising:
 a. means for extracting application user interface elements from the application user interface;   b. means for virtualizing the extracted application user interface elements to generate a virtual view;   c. means for applying a sequence of transformations on the virtual view;   d. means for transmitting to the mobile device the transformed virtual view; and   e. means for rendering the transformed virtual view on the mobile device.