SAFETY METHODS FOR NON-PROGRAMMATIC INTEGRATION SYSTEMS

• US 20120102397A1
• Filed: 04/21/2011
• Published: 04/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lexmark International Technology Sarl (Ninestar Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Lexmark International Technology, S.A. (Ninestar Corporation)
• Inventors: Anderson, Brian G., Coons, Scott, ARMS, RANDALL
• Application Number:
  US13/091,632
• Publication Number:
  US 20120102397A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/273
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems

Abstract

Integration applications and methods non-programmatically collect application data from a mapped source reference of an application. The integration application retrieves at least one of a document and a list of documents associated with the first collected application data for display on a user interface and monitors the collected application data from the mapped location for a difference with a subsequently collected application data. Upon detecting a difference, the integration application removes at least one of a document and the list of documents from the user interface. The integration application may automatically notify a user of the difference using a visual indicator or an audio signal. The integration application may modify the appearance of at least one of a document and the list of documents on a user interface.

Claims

1. A method of application integration, comprising:

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

retrieving identifying data associated with the first collected application data;

monitoring the collected application data from the mapped location for a difference with a subsequently collected application data; and

upon detecting the difference, performing an action on the retrieved identifying data.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising automatically notifying a user of the difference.

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

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

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the action comprises automatically closing the retrieved identifying data.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the action comprises modifying an appearance of the retrieved identifying data

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the modifying comprises adding a watermark to the retrieved identifying data.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein modifying comprises changing a background color of the retrieved identifying data.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein modifying comprises changing a foreground color of the retrieved identifying data.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising prompting a user for input if the difference is detected.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying on a user interface the retrieved identifying data in accordance with the performed action.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the retrieved identifying data is a document.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the retrieved identifying data is a list of documents.

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

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

retrieving identifying data associated with the first collected application data;

monitoring the collected application data from the mapped location for a difference with a subsequently collected application data; and

upon detecting the difference, performing an action on the retrieved identifying data.

15. The integration system of claim 14, further comprising a user interface to display the document.

16. The integration system of claim 14, further comprising an audio component for playing an audio signal.

17. The integration system of claim 14, wherein the at least one module executing on the at least one processor to continuously automatically non-programmatically collect application data from the mapped location and retrieve the identifying data is a data collection module.

18. The integration system of claim 14, 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 difference with a subsequently collected application data and perform the action on the retrieved identifying data is a safety module.

19. The integration system of claim 14, further comprising a computer-readable storage medium, the computer-readable storage medium storing a dictionary comprising at least one mapped location of a mapped source reference of an application and the collected application data from the mapped location.

20. A method of application integration, comprising:

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

retrieving at least one of a document and a list of documents associated with the first collected application data for display on a user interface;

monitoring the collected application data from the mapped location for a difference with a subsequently collected application data; and

upon detecting the difference, removing the at least one of the document and the list of documents from the user interface.