ACTIVITY-CENTRIC GRANULAR APPLICATION FUNCTIONALITY

• US 20070299712A1
• Filed: 06/27/2006
• Published: 12/27/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Macbeth, Steven W., Fernandez, Roland L., Meyers, Brian R., Tan, Desney S., Robertson, George G., Oliver, Nuria M., Murillo, Oscar E., Pedersen, Elin R.
• Granted Patent: US 7,970,637 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.27
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/00 Arrangements for software engineering testing or debugging G06F11/36; administrative, planning or organisation aspects of software project management G06Q10/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0631 Resource planning, allocation, distributing or scheduling for enterprises or organisations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0633 Workflow analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0641 Shopping interfaces

Abstract

A system that can enable the atomization of application functionality in connection with an activity-centric system is provided. The system can be utilized as a programmatic tool that decomposes an application'"'"'s constituent functionality into atoms thereafter monitoring and aggregating atoms with respect to a particular activity. In doing so, the functionality of the system can be scaled based upon complexity and needs of the activity. Additionally, the system can be employed to monetize the atoms or activity capabilities based upon respective use.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates activity-centric atomization of an application, comprising:

an analyzer component that evaluates an application based at least in part upon an activity; and

an activity-centric decomposition component that separates the application into a plurality of activity capabilities based at least in part upon the activity.

2. The system of claim 1, the plurality of activity capabilities comprises at least one of a service and a view.

3. The system of claim 2, the service is at least one of a functionality and a resource.

4. The system of claim 1, the application component comprises a plurality of functionalities.

5. The system of claim 4, a subset of the plurality of functionalities is located remotely from the other of the plurality of functionalities.

6. The system of claim 1, a subset of the plurality of activity capabilities is located remotely from the other of the plurality of activity capabilities.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising a capability aggregation component that combines a subset of the plurality of activity capabilities based at least in part upon the activity.

8. The system of claim 7, the capability aggregation component includes an activity frame generator that facilitates defining an activity frame that identifies the subset of the plurality of activity capabilities associated with the activity.

9. The system of claim 8, the activity frame is a third-party template.

10. The system of claim 8, the activity frame is an ad hoc template.

11. The system of claim 8, further comprising a search component that facilitates identification of the subset of the plurality of activity capabilities.

12. The system of claim 7, further comprising a monetization component that valuates the subset of the plurality of activity capabilities based upon a use.

13. The system of claim 1, further comprising a machine learning and reasoning component that employs at least one of a probabilistic and a statistical-based analysis that infers an action that a user desires to be automatically performed.

14. The system of claim 13, the action is an aggregation of the subset of the plurality of activity capabilities.

15. A method of aggregating activity capabilities, comprising:

discovering a plurality of activity capabilities; and

aggregating a subset of the plurality of activity capabilities based at least in part upon an activity.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising decomposing a plurality of applications into the plurality of activity capabilities.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising authoring the plurality of activity capabilities.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising monetizing the subset of the plurality of activity capabilities based at least in part upon a use.

19. An activity-centric system that facilitates atomization of application functionality, comprising:

means for generating a plurality of activity capabilities;

means for searching the plurality of activity capabilities based at least in part upon an activity;

means for associating a subset of the plurality of activity capabilities to the activity; and

means for rendering the subset of the plurality of activity capabilities to a user.

20. The system of claim 19, further comprising means for monetizing the subset of the plurality of activity capabilities based at least upon a license criterion.