Document-centric application environment

• US 20070192363A1
• Filed: 12/19/2005
• Published: 08/16/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Larsen, Peter
• Application Number:
  US11/311,117
• Publication Number:
  US 20070192363A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/316 Aspect-oriented programming techniques

Abstract

An aspect-oriented document that controls both the granularity of functionality and content integration. As such, embodiments of the innovation enable programmatic interoperability prompted via the content of a document. The document-centric environment can utilize an aspect-oriented document component that controls/dictates appropriate expert applications based at least in part upon content of the data. These aspect-oriented documents shift the focus from the application to the data. As such, in this novel environment, many applications can operate on the same data file, each doing its piece. A novel feature of the innovation is a collaboration model where fragments of project information are each maintained with expert applications or applets and can expose data to each other to tie different dimensions together.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates a document-centric environment, comprising:

an aspect-oriented document component that comprises a plurality of aspects that relate to a plurality of applications; and

an integration component that embeds a plurality of data fragments that correspond to one of the plurality of aspects into the aspect-oriented document component.

2. The system of claim 1, the plurality of applications are functionality-specific applications.

3. The system of claim 1, the plurality of applications are monolithic applications.

4. The system of claim 1, the integration component further comprises an analyzer component that evaluates the aspect-oriented document and determines the one of the plurality of aspects based at least in part upon content.

5. The system of claim 4, the integration component further comprises a consolidation component that aggregates the plurality of fragments that correspond to the one of the plurality of aspects.

6. The system of claim 5, the integration component further comprises a linking component that associates each of the plurality of aspects to one of the plurality of applications.

7. The system of claim 1, at least one of the plurality of applications is located remotely from the aspect-oriented document component.

8. The system of claim 1, the plurality of applications are nested within a parent application.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising an application program interface (API) that facilitates a user to manipulate the aspect-oriented document component.

10. The system of claim 1, the aspect-oriented document dictates utilization of one of the plurality of applications based at least in part upon content.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising an artificial intelligence (AI) component that employs a machine learning mechanism to infer an action that a user desires to be automatically performed.

12. A computer-implemented method of rendering document-centric data, comprising:

selecting a document;

analyzing content within the document;

determining a plurality of applications associated to the content; and

rendering the content via aspects of the plurality of applications.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, further comprising storing a plurality of fragments that correspond to the plurality applications in an aspect-oriented document.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 12, further comprising embedding multiple instances of one of the plurality of applications into a disparate one of the plurality of applications.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, further comprising defining the one of the plurality of applications based at least in part upon the content.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 15, the act of defining further comprises generating a template that presupposes the one of the plurality of applications based at least in part upon the content.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 14, further comprising inferring the one of the plurality of application based at least in part upon a user preference.

18. A computer-implemented document-centric system, comprising:

means for embedding a plurality of aspects that relate to a plurality of applications within a single document;

means for storing data related to a subset of the plurality of applications;

means for determining at least one of the plurality aspects based at least in part upon the data; and

means for rendering the data via the at least one of the plurality of aspects.

19. The computer-implemented system of claim 18, the means for determining is a template.

20. The computer-implemented system of claim 19, further comprising, means for defining the template.