Drag and Drop of an Application Component to Desktop

• US 20100333008A1
• Filed: 06/30/2009
• Published: 12/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Taylor, Steven
• Granted Patent: US 8,239,781 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/543 User-generated data transfer, e.g. clipboards, dynamic data exchange [DDE], object linking and embedding [OLE]

Abstract

The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for dragging and dropping a component of an application onto a virtual desktop. One process includes operations for receiving a request to copy a selected component of an application from a plurality of components of the application onto the virtual desktop. A display window for displaying the selected component of the application is executed and the unselected components of the application are filtered by visually concealing the unselected components. The process can further include presenting the selected component of the application in the display window.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for causing a processor to drag and drop a component of an application to a virtual desktop, the method comprising the following steps performed by one or more processors:

receiving a request to copy a selected component of the application from a plurality of components of the application onto the virtual desktop;

executing a display window for displaying the selected component of the application to a user;

filtering a plurality of unselected components of the application by visually concealing the unselected components; and

presenting the selected component of the application in the display window.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein presenting the selected component of the application includes executing a drag and drop sequence, the drag and drop sequence providing a visual depiction of the selected component copied from the application to the virtual desktop.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising creating a configuration file comprising filter parameters defining the filtering of the unselected components of the application.

4. The method of claim 3, the configuration file further comprising an identification of the location of the selected component of the application.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein execution of the configuration file initiates presentation of the selected component of the application in a second display window.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the application comprises an application executed on a remote server with respect to the user of the virtual desktop.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising updating the selected component of the application after presentation in the display window.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein each component of the plurality of components of the application is configured in a framed data structure operable to be filtered based on the user'"'"'s selection.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the display window is accessible from the virtual desktop.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the application is a business application or software development application.

11. A computer program product encoded on a tangible storage medium, the product comprising computer readable instructions for causing one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

receiving a request to copy a selected component of an application from a plurality of components of the application onto a virtual desktop;

executing a display window for displaying the selected component of the application to a user;

filtering a plurality of unselected components of the application by visually concealing the unselected components; and

presenting the selected component of the application in the display window.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein presenting the selected component of the application includes executing a drag and drop sequence, the drag and drop sequence providing a visual depiction of the selected component copied from the application to the virtual desktop.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising creating a configuration file comprising filter parameters defining the filtering of the unselected components of the application.

14. The computer program product of claim 13, the configuration file further comprising an identification of the location of the selected component of the application.

15. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein execution of the configuration file initiates presentation of the selected component of the application in a second display window.

16. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the application comprises an application executed on a remote server with respect to the user of the virtual desktop.

17. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising updating the selected component of the application after presentation in the display window.

18. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein each component of the plurality of components of the application is configured in a framed data structure operable to be filtered based on the user'"'"'s selection.

19. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the display window is accessible from the virtual desktop.

20. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the application is a business application or software development application.