Service Brick Composition Framework for Smartphones

Nowadays, smart phones have become the most important mobile devices and can access thousands of mobile applications. However, retrieving required information from various resources by the smart phone is still a time-consuming, costly and inconvenient task for users. To address this issue, we introduce the concept of service brick, and propose a service brick composition framework to integrate required services and information. Notably, the web-based framework is devised according to the characteristics of smart phones, including relatively narrow network bandwidth and relatively small size screen. Besides, a visual design tool is provided to let the user build brick-based applications easily. To demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach, two illustrative examples, music composite app and travel composite app, are offered.