MANAGING PORTABLE DOCUMENT-BASED WORKSPACES

• US 20160034435A1
• Filed: 07/29/2014
• Published: 02/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: PATIDAR, MANSUKH
• Granted Patent: US 10,387,552 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting

Abstract

In various embodiments, methods and systems for managing portable document-based workspaces is provided. An indication to save a document-based workspace for a document is received on a computing device. The computing device can include a software application for editing the document and a client application for communicating with a cloud service component that is configured to store the document and the document-based workspace. Based on receiving the indication to save the document-based workspace, transient data associated with the document is identified. The transient data can be identified based on a data structure that defines document-specific data that are preserved as part of the document-based workspace. The document-based workspace is saved and communicated to the cloud service component such that the transient data associated with the document is accessible when the document is accessed from a second computing device that sends an indication to access the document and the document-based workspace.

Claims

1. One or more computer storage media storing computer-useable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform a method for managing portable document-based workspaces, the method comprising:

receiving an indication to save a document-based workspace for a document;

identifying transient data associated with the document; and

saving the document-based workspace such that the transient data associated with the document is accessible when the document is accessed.

2. The media of claim 1, wherein the document-based workspace comprises document-specific data that include components and resources that facilitate editing a document in a software application, wherein the document-specific data represent an editing state of the document at a given time.

3. The media of claim 2, wherein the document-specific data comprises the transient data identified to be saved to preserve a snapshot of an editing process of the document.

4. The media of claim 1, wherein identifying the transient data associated with the document is based on a data structure that defines transient data from the document-specific data that are preserved as part of the document-based workspace.

5. The media of claim 1, further comprising:

providing a configuration interface for the document-specific data; and

receiving a selection or de-selection of individual document-specific data that are part of the document-based workspace.

6. The media of claim 1, wherein the document and the document-based workspace are processed independently of each other.

7. The media of claim 1, wherein the document-based workspace is an integral portion of the document.

8. The media of claim 1, wherein saving the document-based workspace further comprises:

communicating the document-based workspace to a client application such that document-based workspace is communicated and saved in a cloud computing infrastructure storage component.

9. A computer-implemented method suitable for use in a distributed computing environment utilizing a processor and a memory for managing portable document-based workspaces, the method comprising:

receiving a document and a document-based workspace, wherein the document-based workspace comprises transient data associated with editing the document;

storing the document and the document-based workspace;

receiving an indication to communicate the document and the document-based workspace to a target computing device; and

communicating the document and document-based workspace to the target computing device.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the document and document-based workspace are stored independently of each other in a cloud computing infrastructure storage component.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

a source computing device that comprises a software application, wherein the software application generates the document-based workspace, and wherein the source computing device and the target computing device each comprise a client application, wherein the client application manages communication, between the software application and a cloud computing storage infrastructure component, of the document and the document-based workspace.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the document and the document-based workspace are received at the target computing that is different from the source computing device, the source computing device is used to create the document and the document-based workspace on the software application running on the source computing device, and the target computing device is used to access the document and the document-based workspace on the software application running on the target computing device.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein accessing the document and the document-based workspace on the software application running on the target computing device comprises configuring interface features of the software application running on the target computing device based on the document-based workspace to provide the previously saved workspace interface features.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the interface features include at least one of a graphical user interface or a peripheral interface.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein accessing the document and the document-based workspace on the software application running on the target computing device further comprises:

receiving, at the target computing device, an input from a user to undo an action performed on the source computing device;

undoing the action at the target computing device; and

rendering the document at the target computing device upon undoing the action.

16. A system for managing portable document-based workspaces, the system comprising:

a software application on a first computing device configured for;

receiving an indication to save a document-based workspace for a document;

identifying transient data associated with the document; and

saving the document-based workspace such that the transient data associated with the document is accessible when the document accessed;

a cloud service component configured for;

receiving the document and the document-based workspace;

storing the document and the document-based workspace;

receiving an indication to communicate the document and the document-based workspace; and

communicating the document and document-based workspace; and

a software application on a second computing device configured for;

sending an indication to retrieve document-based workspace for a document; and

reestablishing an editing state of the document using the document-based workspace.

17. The system of claim 16, further comprising:

the software application on the first computing device configured for;

receiving an input from a user to execute an action associated with a document, wherein the action creates transient data of the software application on the first computing device, the transient data is associated with the editing state of the document;

saving the transient data in the document-based workspace;

the software application on the second computing device configured for;

retrieving the document-based workspace having the transient data, wherein the transient data is used to reestablish the editing state of the document;

receiving an indication to perform a second action associated with the transient data;

performing the second action based on the transient data and the reestablished editing state of the document.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the transient data comprises at least one of document context, clipboard, selected objects, undo buffer, document locks, document preferences, and pointers to other documents preserved on the first computing device that are accessible via the document-based workspace on the second computing device.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein transient data is identified based on:

retrieving a data structure that defines the transient data from document-specific data for the software application, the document-specific data represent an editing state of the document at a given time, wherein the data structure is specifically generated based on transient data of an opened document in the software application; and

identifying transient data using the data structure such that the transient data selected to be preserved as part of the document-based workspace.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein the cloud service component is configured to receive the document and the document-based workspace from a first computing device and provide the document and the document-based workspace to a second computing device such that the document-based workspace is maintained based on preserving transient data generated while editing the document on the first computing device.