Methods and systems for record editing in application development

US10089107B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Apple Inc. · US

Inventors

• Nicholas K. Puz · San Jose, US
• Jessica S. Cheng · Portola Valley, US
• Derrick S. Huhn · San Francisco, US
• Kevin R. Lafferty · San Mateo, US
• Amol V. Pattekar · San Jose, US
• Mitchell B. Rivera · San Francisco, US
• Onar Vikingstad · Sunnyvale, US
• Richard Frederick Wagner · San Francisco, US
• Jeremy Werner · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 7, 2013
• Grant date: Oct 2, 2018
• Expiry date: Oct 10, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F8/30
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method of generating a schema including receiving a data record having a record type name and one or more data values is provided. The data values are associated with data value names. The method includes determining whether a set of existing schemas includes a schema associated with the record type name, determining whether the schema includes an element having the same name as a corresponding data element of the record, and validating the corresponding data element against the schema element. A new schema element is added to the schema, the new schema element having the same name and type as the corresponding data element of the record. The method can further include indexing at least one of the one or more data values, which involves querying the indexed data, forming subscription lists for the data values, and forming a derived data value associated with one or more data values.