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Service Architecture in Engineering

Sharing Modules Across Experience Services and Multi-Screen Applications

By now most eBay core business flows have gone through the journey of implementing Experience Service-based multi-screen application solutions, where web and mobile native app user interfaces are composed of one or more modules, and Experience Services directly returns these modules to clients with content synthesized from backend data sources, localized and formatted, ready for render and user interaction. This article outlines a plan to move more modules to a shared environment.

By: Chuck Zheng
Multi-screen Application Development in Engineering

Experience Services — eBay’s Solution to Multi-Screen Application Development

Many companies want to offer their products and services as both web and native experiences -- so-called multi-screen application development. Application development on various devices is historically siloed. The eBay Experience Service interface abstracts most business logic/knowledge away from clients to provide new functionality to native and web apps with minimum or no client code change.

By: Chuck Zheng and Senthil Padmanabhan

Abstract:

Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for optimizing data delivery for a User Interface (UI) to a plurality of device types. One method includes operations for receiving at a server a request for an update to the UI of a client device, and for determining, by an orchestrator at the server, modules associated with the request, each module being presented on the UI. Further, the method includes operations for invoking domain services based on the determined modules (each domain service returning respective domain service data), and for synthesizing the domain service data to generate module data for each module. The synthesizing includes selecting from the domain service data and combining the selected domain service data to generate the module data. The module data is transmitted to the client device for all the modules, the module data being processable by the client device to update modules of the UI.

Country: United States
Grant Date: August 6, 2019
INVENTORS: Senthil Padmanabhan, Louis Perrochon, Chuck Zheng
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