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Unified presentation of contextually connected information to improve user efficiency and interaction performance

  • US 10,691,292 B2
  • Filed: 02/23/2015
  • Issued: 06/23/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for presenting contextually connected information, the method comprising:

  • accessing, by a first application executing on a computing device, a first data that has a first contextual metadata corresponding to it, the first contextual metadata comprising ambient data indicative of activity that occurred coincidentally with creation or editing of the first data;

    transmitting, by the first application, a request to a data correlation interface of a second application also executing on the computing device, the request providing the first contextual metadata;

    searching, by the second application, in response to receiving the request via the data correlation interface of the second application, other contextual metadata to identify a relationship between the first contextual metadata and a second, different contextual metadata, the identifying the relationship being based at least in part on existing, established data correlations;

    obtaining, by the second application, a second data to which the second contextual metadata corresponds;

    physically generating, by the computing device on a display device communicationally coupled to the computing device, a graphical user interface comprising;

    a primary content area comprising a display of at least a portion of the first data; and

    a context panel visually adjacent to the primary content area, the context panel comprising a first user interface element that is indicative of the second data, the first user interface element being user-selectable to access the second data;

    detecting a user action comprising a drag action from the primary content area to the context panel;

    generating, in response to the detecting, an explicit association between the first data and the second data, the explicit association now being one of the established data correlations; and

    updating the graphical user interface to comprise an updated context panel now comprising a second user interface element that is indicative of the first data;

    wherein the first application is a dedicated application directed to the consumption of the first data and the second application is a dedicated application directed to the consumption of the second data, thereby resulting in a fractured data consumption paradigm.

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