Managing a Contextual Workspace

• US 20130086483A1
• Filed: 10/04/2011
• Published: 04/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sap Portals Israel Ltd (SAP SE)
• Original Assignee: Sap Portals Israel Ltd (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Alon, Ram, Sherman, Yahali, Tkach, Vladimir, Gross, Ran, Shafrir, Ev, Khalatov, Dmitry, Guzanski, Avi, Kossoy, Oleg, Bavly, Guy, Schlank, Hila, Vainer, Vitaly, Greenshpan, Yaakov
• Granted Patent: US 9,218,189 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/751
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/452 Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131

Abstract

Techniques for providing user-based context to a virtual workspace, including: generating a virtual workspace viewable by a user on a graphical user interface, the virtual workspace comprising a plurality of workspace modules comprising data contained in one or more data objects; identifying an interaction by the user with at least some of the data contained in the one or more data objects; and based on the identified interaction, identifying additional data contained in the one or more data objects that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user.

Claims

1. A method performed with a computing system for providing user-based context to a virtual workspace, the method comprising:

generating a virtual workspace viewable by a user on a graphical user interface, the virtual workspace comprising a plurality of workspace modules comprising data contained in one or more data objects;

identifying an interaction by the user with at least some of the data contained in the one or more data objects; and

based on the identified interaction, identifying additional data contained in the one or more data objects that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying an interaction by the user with at least some of the data contained in the one or more data objects comprises identifying an active workspace module in the plurality of workspace modules.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying additional data contained in the one or more data objects that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user comprises:

identifying a description of the active workspace module;

searching for data contained in the one or more data objects associated with the description of the active workspace module; and

identifying the associated data as the additional data contained in the one or more data objects that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the description of the active workspace module is a title of the active workspace module.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying an interaction by the user with at least some of the data contained in the one or more data objects comprises identifying a cursor location in the virtual workspace coincident with a particular one of the plurality of workspace modules presented to the user through the virtual workspace.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein identifying additional data contained in the one or more data objects that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user comprises:

identifying a description of the particular workspace module;

searching for data contained in the one or more data objects associated with the description of the particular workspace module; and

identifying the associated data as the additional data contained in the one or more data objects that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying an interaction by the user with at least some of the data contained in the one or more data objects comprises identifying a selection, by the user, of the data contained in the one or more data objects.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein identifying additional data contained in the one or more data objects that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user comprises:

searching for data contained in the one or more data objects associated with the user selection; and

identifying the associated data as the additional data contained in the one or more data objects that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying an interaction by the user with at least some of the data contained in the one or more data objects comprises identifying particular ones of the plurality of workspace modules presented to the user through the virtual workspace.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying an interaction by the user with at least some of the data contained in the one or more data objects comprises identifying at least a portion of metadata associated with a particular workspace module presented to the user through the virtual workspace.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying an interaction by the user with at least some of the data contained in the one or more data objects comprises searching the data contained in the one or more data objects interacted with by the user for at least one keyword.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein identifying additional data contained in the one or more data objects that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user comprises:

searching the data contained in the one or more data objects for the at least one keyword;

identifying data contained in the one or more data objects containing the keyword as the additional data that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying an interaction by the user with at least some of the data contained in the one or more data objects comprises identifying an interaction by the user with a data cube.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein identifying an interaction by the user with a data cube comprises at least one of:

identifying a dimension of the data cube filtered by the user;

identifying a measure of the data cube filtered by the user;

identifying a particular view of a plurality of views of the data cube currently selected by the user;

identifying a slice of the data cube selected by the user;

identifying a dice of the slice of the data cube selected by the user;

or

identifying a pivot of the data cube from a first view to a second view of the data cube.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the additional identified data contained in the one or more data objects that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user.

16. An apparatus comprising instructions embodied on a tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media, the instructions operable when executed to cause a computing system to perform operations comprising:

generating a virtual workspace viewable by a user on a graphical user interface, the virtual workspace comprising a plurality of workspace modules comprising data contained in one or more data objects;

identifying an interaction by the user with at least some of the data contained in the one or more data objects; and

based on the identified interaction, identifying additional data contained in the one or more data objects that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein identifying an interaction by the user with at least some of the data contained in the one or more data objects comprises at least one of:

identifying an active workspace module in the plurality of workspace modules;

or

identifying a cursor location in the virtual workspace coincident with a particular one of the plurality of workspace modules presented to the user through the virtual workspace

18. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein identifying additional data contained in the one or more data objects that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user comprises:

identifying a description of the active workspace module;

searching for data contained in the one or more data objects associated with the description of the active workspace module; and

identifying the associated data as the additional data contained in the one or more data objects that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user.

19. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein identifying additional data contained in the one or more data objects that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user comprises:

identifying a description of the particular workspace module;

searching for data contained in the one or more data objects associated with the description of the particular workspace module; and

identifying the associated data as the additional data contained in the one or more data objects that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user.

20. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein identifying an interaction by the user with at least some of the data contained in the one or more data objects comprises identifying a selection, by the user, of the data contained in the one or more data objects.

21. The apparatus of claim 20, wherein identifying additional data contained in the one or more data objects that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user comprises:

searching for data contained in the one or more data objects associated with the user selection; and

identifying the associated data as the additional data contained in the one or more data objects that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user.

22. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein identifying an interaction by the user with at least some of the data contained in the one or more data objects comprises identifying particular ones of the plurality of workspace modules presented to the user through the virtual workspace.

23. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein identifying an interaction by the user with at least some of the data contained in the one or more data objects comprises identifying at least a portion of metadata associated with a particular workspace module presented to the user through the virtual workspace.

24. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein identifying an interaction by the user with at least some of the data contained in the one or more data objects comprises searching the data contained in the one or more data objects interacted with by the user for at least one keyword.

25. The apparatus of claim 24, wherein identifying additional data contained in the one or more data objects that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user comprises:

searching the data contained in the one or more data objects for the at least one keyword;

identifying data contained in the one or more data objects containing the keyword as the additional data that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user.

26. A computing system, comprising

one or more memory modules;

one or more processors;

a graphical user interface; and

a contextual services module stored on one or more of the memory modules, the contextual services module operable when executed with the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

generating a virtual workspace viewable by a user on the graphical user interface, the virtual workspace comprising a plurality of workspace modules comprising data contained in one or more data objects;

identifying an interaction by the user with at least some of the data contained in the one or more data objects; and

based on the identified interaction, identifying additional data contained in the one or more data objects that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user.

27. The system of claim 26, wherein identifying an interaction by the user with at least some of the data contained in the one or more data objects comprises at least one of:

identifying an active workspace module in the plurality of workspace modules;

or

identifying a cursor location in the virtual workspace coincident with a particular one of the plurality of workspace modules presented to the user through the virtual workspace

28. The system of claim 26, wherein identifying additional data contained in the one or more data objects that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user comprises:

identifying a description of the active workspace module;

searching for data contained in the one or more data objects associated with the description of the active workspace module; and

identifying the associated data as the additional data contained in the one or more data objects that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user.

29. The system of claim 26, wherein identifying additional data contained in the one or more data objects that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user comprises:

identifying a description of the particular workspace module;

searching for data contained in the one or more data objects associated with the description of the particular workspace module; and

identifying the associated data as the additional data contained in the one or more data objects that is semantically related to the data interacted with by the user.

30. The system of claim 26, wherein identifying an interaction by the user with at least some of the data contained in the one or more data objects comprises identifying particular ones of the plurality of workspace modules presented to the user through the virtual workspace.

31. The system of claim 26, wherein identifying an interaction by the user with at least some of the data contained in the one or more data objects comprises identifying at least a portion of metadata associated with a particular workspace module presented to the user through the virtual workspace.

32. The system of claim 26, wherein identifying an interaction by the user with at least some of the data contained in the one or more data objects comprises searching the data contained in the one or more data objects interacted with by the user for at least one keyword.