NOTIFICATION METHODS FOR NON-PROGRAMMATIC INTEGRATION SYSTEMS

• US 20120101981A1
• Filed: 04/21/2011
• Published: 04/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyland Switzerland, Sarl (HSI Holdings II Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Lexmark International Technology, S.A. (Ninestar Corporation)
• Inventors: Anderson, Brian G., Coons, Scott, Arms, Randall
• Granted Patent: US 9,183,202 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/608
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/245 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems

Abstract

Methods and systems for retrieving information from an unrelated application that includes receiving automatically, non-programmatically collected application data from a mapped location of a mapped source reference of the unrelated application; querying a computer-readable storage medium collected application data without user intervention; retrieving identifying data associated with documents stored in the computer-readable storage medium based upon the query; monitoring the collected application data from the mapped location for a change in the collected application data; and upon detecting the change, re-querying the computer-readable storage medium using the changed collected application data and retrieving identifying data associated with the documents based upon the re-query.

Claims

1. A method of application integration, comprising:

automatically non-programmatically collecting application data from a mapped location of a mapped source reference of an application;

using the collected application data, querying a computer-readable storage medium for plurality of documents without user intervention; and

retrieving identifying data associated with the plurality of documents based upon the query;

monitoring the collected application data from the mapped location for a change in the collected application data; and

upon detecting the change, re-querying the computer-readable storage medium using the changed collected application data and retrieving identifying data associated with the plurality of documents based upon the re-query.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising automatically notifying a user of retrieved identifying data.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the notifying the user of retrieved identifying data comprises displaying a list of the documents corresponding to the retrieved identifying data.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the notifying the user of retrieved identifying data comprises displaying a thumbnails of the documents corresponding to the retrieved identifying data.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the notifying the user of retrieved identifying data comprises displaying a visual indicator.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the notifying the user of retrieved identifying data comprises playing an audio signal.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the notifying a user of retrieved identifying data comprises indicating a total number of documents corresponding to the retrieved identifying data.

8. The method of claim 2, wherein the notifying a user of retrieved identifying data comprises providing metadata corresponding to the documents associated with the retrieved identifying data.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the computer-readable storage medium is a database.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the computer-readable storage medium is a file system.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising retrieving the document associated with the identifying data.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the retrieved document is based upon user input.

13. An integration system, comprising at least one module executing on at least one processor to:

automatically non-programmatically collect application data from a mapped location of a mapped source reference of an application;

query a computer-readable storage medium using the collected application data without user initiation; and

retrieve identifying data associated with the plurality of documents based upon the query;

monitor collected application data from the mapped location for a change in the collected application data; and

re-query the computer-readable storage medium using the changed collected application data and retrieving identifying data associated with the plurality documents based upon the re-query upon detecting the change.

14. The integration system of claim 13, further comprising a user interface to display the identifying data.

15. The integration system of claim 13, wherein the user interface is a graphical user interface.

16. The integration system of claim 13, further comprising an audio component for playing an audio signal.

17. The integration system of claim 13, wherein the at least one module executing on the at least one processor to automatically non-programmatically collect application data from the mapped location is a data collection module.

18. The integration system of claim 13, wherein the at least one module executing on the at least one processor to monitor the collected application data from the mapped location for a change in the collected application data and re-query the computer-readable storage medium is a notification module.

19. The integration system of claim 13, wherein the at least one module executing on the at least one processor to query the computer-readable storage medium and to retrieve the identifying data is a notification module.

20. A method retrieving information from an unrelated application, comprising:

receiving automatically, non-programmatically collected application data from a mapped location of a mapped source reference of the unrelated application;

querying a computer-readable storage medium using the received automatically, non-programmatically collected application data without user intervention;

retrieving identifying data associated with documents stored in the computer-readable storage medium based upon the query;

monitoring the automatically, non-programmatically collected application data from the mapped location for a change in the automatically, non-programmatically collected application data; and

upon detecting the change, re-querying the computer-readable storage medium using the changed automatically, non-programmatically collected application data and retrieving identifying data associated with the documents based upon the re-query.