Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080215998 | WIDGET LAUNCHER AND BRIEFCASE - A system and method for persistently associating a control widget with a plurality of managed widgets operating within a widget runtime environment; changing a state of the managed widgets as a group, the state including one of open, closed, or hidden; and representing the changed state of the managed widgets via a display. Managed widgets having a closed state are neither displayed nor connected with a data source, widgets having an open state are both displayed and connected with a data source, and widgets having an intermediate state are not displayed (e.g. hidden) but are connected with a data source and capable of receiving updated information while hidden. | 09-04-2008 |
20090083058 | BUSINESS CONTEXT DATA COMPANION TOOL - Methods and apparatuses enable rendering business context data in a desktop widget. The business context data describes a resource, a view, and actionable context data that relate to a business scenario. The business context data is processed to determine a UI component to generate to represent the business context data. The component is then generated and rendered in a desktop widget to provide access to the actionable context data on a client device via the desktop widget. An active business client receives and processes the business context data. The active business client can operate as a widget engine for the business context data to enable the rendering of the business context data on the client device. | 03-26-2009 |
20090083643 | ACTIVE BUSINESS CLIENT - Methods and apparatuses enable generation of and consumption of business context data. A server generates business context data that describes a resource, a view, and actionable context data related to a business scenario. The business context data is not specific to any particular UI capability of the client device, and may include little or no UI information. The server transmits the business context data to a client device that has an active client. The active client identifies one or more UI capabilities of the client device and generates a UI component based on the business scenario and the UI capabilities. The UI component enables functionality in the client device related to execution of the actionable context data. In one embodiment, the active client enables predictive deployment of services on the client device based on an understanding of the business scenario. | 03-26-2009 |
20090265634 | SITUATIONAL WORKSPACES - A workspace container provides data content in a generic way with interfaces and tools common to data of different types. The container has an owner, and may include one or more activities, which each have an objective and are associated with various resources to accomplish the objective. User interaction in the container transforms the container contents and is persisted with the container. Different data types are represented uniformly from the perspective of data input, data access, and display rendering. Additionally, common tools can be embedded within the container, which receive content items and user-generated content as input to transform the container contents at a runtime of the container. The container may also be collaborative, with multiple users having access to the data content simultaneously (except for actual content collisions). The container may be exposed to another user through request-to-perform techniques as passed through a work package. | 10-22-2009 |
20090300060 | USER-EXPERIENCE-CENTRIC ARCHITECTURE FOR DATA OBJECTS AND END USER APPLICATIONS - Methods and apparatuses enable generation of data objects having properties that reflect business understanding and how the data objects are to be used. A user experience data object (“UX object”) is semantically defined by object characteristics including actions, attributes, and relations needed to incorporate the UX object into one or more user interface (UI) contexts. The UI contexts are contexts from which the UX object will be accessed or in which it will be used. One or more UX object usages define object characteristics related to a specific context in which the UX object is to be accessed. A usage has business logic decoupled from the UX object, and is associated with the UX object. The UX object and one or more usages are provided to enable the UX object to be incorporated into a UI component that allows access to the UX object. | 12-03-2009 |
20100251129 | DATA CONSUMPTION FRAMEWORK FOR SEMANTIC OBJECTS - A data enrichment and consumption framework enables defining data object consumption based on semantic aspects of the data object. Views, contexts, and associations of the data object are defined to dynamically render UI content based on interaction with the data object. Additionally, standard views can be defined to enable rapid development of UIs. The same data content is rendered in consistent ways across different devices and UI technologies. | 09-30-2010 |
20100251133 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A USER INTERFACE IN A COMPUTER - Presenting a user interface in a computing system, where device-specific information is added to data defined generically with respect to a particular device or presentation technology. The generic definition can be provided via template representing data and functionality of a user interaction, which is presented to a user in a specific way on a specific user interface. A class can be derived in the user interface from the template and instantiated with data in accordance with particulars of a data type. Data can be presented via instructions representing basic presentation patterns defining how data is to be presented on a user interface. Identifications of the instructions are matched to instructions to generate instructions specific to a presentation environment. | 09-30-2010 |
20110161424 | AUDIENCE SELECTION AND SYSTEM ANCHORING OF COLLABORATION THREADS - A social network server provides collaboration networking capability for a network system such as a business system. A user can request to tie a collaboration thread to an anchor in the system. The anchor is a primary topic, which can be selected from topics provided by the system, or entered by the user. The selectable topics are derived from within the system. Whether selected or entered, the topic is associated with the collaboration thread to allow the thread to be managed as a resource in the system. The audience for the collaboration thread is controlled by the user, where topics can be applied as filters to generate an audience. The primary topic directs audience selection, and additional audience selection can be achieved by applying boundary topics. The collaboration thread is presented only to the audience, and the audience can be dynamically altered. | 06-30-2011 |
20120110519 | GRAPHICAL MANIPULATION OF DATA OBJECTS - In an embodiment, a user input defining an enclosed, graphical shape on a video display is received. A number of graphical items are identified as being included within the enclosed, graphical shape. Here, each graphical item is displayed on the video display and represents a data object that has a number of properties. A property is extracted from the number of properties that the data objects have in common based on the identification. A number of other manipulation techniques are also described. | 05-03-2012 |
20120124133 | ACTIVE BUSINESS CLIENT - Methods and apparatuses enable generation of and consumption of business context data. A server generates business context data that describes a resource, a view, and actionable context data related to a business scenario. The business context data is not specific to any particular UI capability of the client device, and may include tittle or no UI information. The server transmits the business context data to a client device that has an active client. The active client identifies one or more UI capabilities of the client device and generates a UI component based on the business scenario and the UI capabilities. The UI component enables functionality in the client device related to execution of the actionable context data. In one embodiment, the active client enables predictive deployment of services on the client device based on an understanding of the business scenario. | 05-17-2012 |
20120166177 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCESSING APPLICATIONS BASED ON USER INTENT MODELING - In one embodiment, the present invention includes a computer-implemented method comprising storing information in a datastore, the information corresponding to a plurality of computer applications, wherein the plurality of computer applications have associated annotations, receiving an input from a user, providing a first verb and a first noun corresponding to a user intent based on said input, and specifying one or more of said plurality of applications based on the verb and noun annotations for the plurality of applications and the first verb and first noun corresponding to the user intent. The annotations comprise a verb describing one or more activities performed by an associated application and a noun describing work objects on which the activities are performed. Users access the applications in the datastore. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166178 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MODEL-BASED PROCESSING OF LINGUISTIC USER INPUTS - The present invention includes model-based processing of linguistic user inputs. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a computer-implemented method comprising receiving linguistic inputs, parsing the linguistic inputs, mapping the linguistic inputs to a formal representation used by a model, applying the formal representation against the model, where the model comprises said formal representation, and where the model specifies relationships between the elements of the formal representation and defines process information, and accessing software resources based on the formal representation of the user input and the relationships and process information in said model. | 06-28-2012 |
20120296832 | DEFINING AGREEMENTS USING COLLABORATIVE COMMUNICATIONS - An agreement object comprising a plurality of terms for negotiation among two or more users is concurrently presented with an unstructured conversation among at least two users. Thereafter, data characterizing terms for which an agreement has been reached is received resulting in the agreement object being updated to reflect the terms for which an agreement has been reached. An agreement based on the agreement object is then finalized once an agreement has been reached for all of the terms. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. | 11-22-2012 |
20130006967 | SEMANTIC ACTIVITY AWARENESS - A domain-specific task may be defined from a library of domain-independent task patterns. A task pattern may be selected based on inferences made from a user's initial input, or just based on receiving sensor information through events or contextual information, or a combination of user input and sensor information. One or more elements of a selected task pattern may be defined in the context of a given domain to define the domain-specific task. | 01-03-2013 |
20130014026 | PROVISIONING AND PERFORMING ACTION ITEMS - An action item specifying one or more tasks is instantiated. Thereafter, data characterizing the action item is associated with at least one tool to perform at least one task. Each tool comprises at least one service, application or procedure to facilitate or perform the at least one task. Subsequently, the at least one tool is initiated. User-generated input and/or other data is received from the at least one tool. Performance of one or more of the tasks specified by the action item is then finalized using the at least one tool and the user-generated input and/or other data. In some variations, the action item can be provisioned with at least one contextual resource to facilitate performance of at least one task. The at least one contextual resource can be associated with the action item and/or at least one user associated with the action item. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. | 01-10-2013 |
20130091448 | TRANSFORMATIVE USER INTERFACES - Various embodiments herein include systems, methods, and software that provide transformative user interfaces. Some embodiments include a container renderable within a user interface of a computing application. In some such embodiments, code of the container may be executable to receive an object to present within the container. Further, and based on a context of the container, such embodiments may present a view of the object within the container based on rendering information retrieved by the container via a rendering service of the object defining how the object is to be presented within the particular context of the container amongst a plurality of possible contexts within which the object can be rendered. In some embodiments, a container may further override and modify object behaviors when depending upon at least the particular container or context the context thereof. | 04-11-2013 |
20130346889 | System and Method of Implementing a Transformative User Experience - A system and method of implementing a user experience. The method includes adjusting an elastic property of a container to change its context. The elastic property is one of an elastic purpose, and elastic collaboration, and an elastic practice. A revised view of a task object is presented according to the elastic property of the container having been adjusted and the context having been changed. | 12-26-2013 |