Unified user work environment for surfacing cross document relationships and componentized functionality
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented system that facilitates a user work environment, comprising:
- a presentation component for providing a visual presentation of sets of information and a relationship between the sets of information; and
an application component that allows direct user interaction with the sets of information and the relationship, and preserves results of the user interaction.
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Abstract
A unified workspace (UWS) design that provides a single system-wide display and interaction surface, and a set of tools that allow a user to discover relevant information. Data is surfaced across boundaries of applications and documents and stored implicitly from preset business logic or explicitly from user demand. Data can be implicitly and explicitly queried and aggregated from many different data sources such as various content types that are created in different formats and displayed on a single interaction surface. The UWS surfaces the required application functionalities to perform the tasks by partial launch of the associated application. Data elevation surfaces only the relevant amount of information, based on the context and activity, to assist the completion and decisionmaking process. Private and shared workspaces can be employed with object passing therebetween. The UWS provides a visual representation of each element such as information or relationship and allows direct user interaction.
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20 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented system that facilitates a user work environment, comprising:
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a presentation component for providing a visual presentation of sets of information and a relationship between the sets of information; and an application component that allows direct user interaction with the sets of information and the relationship, and preserves results of the user interaction. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A computer-implemented method of providing a user work environment, comprising:
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providing a single system-wide user work surface for user interaction; visually presenting sets of relevant information and relationships between the sets; performing a task that includes at least one of editing and reviewing one or more of the sets of information, the task associated with one or more applications; and exposing an application function of the one or more applications based on context and type of the information, the application function exposed based on a partial launch of the associated application. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A computer-executable system that facilitates a user work environment, comprising:
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computer-implemented means for visually and graphically presenting a work surface having regions that correspond to different business objects; computer-implemented means for visually and graphically presenting sets of data objects and set relationships in association with the work surface regions; computer-implemented means for interacting with data objects associated with one or more of the regions; computer-implemented means for exposing application functions of applications associated with the respective data objects for manipulation of the data, the functions exposed by partially launching the associated application; computer-implemented means for automatically elevating data related to the data objects based on the interaction; and computer-implemented means for implicitly and explicitly generating the relationships between the data objects.
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