Method and system for sharing documents between on-demand services

• US 8,832,054 B2
• Filed: 03/08/2013
• Issued: 09/09/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Salesforce.com, Inc.
• Inventors: Barker, Timothy J., Levine, Jonathan, Johnson, James
• Primary Examiner(s): Fleurantin, Jean B
• Application Number:
  US13/791,825
• Publication Number:
  US 20130191327A1
• Time in Patent Office: 550 Days
• Field of Search: 707705-707, 707/759, 707/770, 707/781, 707/982, 707/785, 709/217, 709/219
• US Class Current: 707/705
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/168 Details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems, e.g. browsing and visualisation, 2d or 3d GUIs query results presentation G06F16/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/176 Support for shared access to files; File sharing support
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/182 Distributed file systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting

Abstract

A method for sharing documents between on-demand services is provided. In an embodiment, a user of a first on-demand service may be able to view a list of content that includes content stored at the first on-demand service and content stored at a second on-demand service. The content of the second on-demand service may be associated with information about the content, allowing the content to be shared among multiple users of the first on-demand service. The user wanting to view the content, select or click on an indicator identifying the content, a connection to the second on-demand service is established, and images of the content are sent from the second on-demand service to the first on-demand service.

Claims

1. A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code adapted to be executed to cause a computer to implement a method for sharing documents and content between on-demand services, the method comprising:

sending from a first on-demand service to a user machine a link that opens a webpage showing;

at least content associated with the user including content stored at a second on-demand service, the second on-demand service requiring a login unique to the second on-demand service, and

an option to make the content stored at the second on-demand service viewable by multiple users of the first on-demand service;

receiving a selection by the user of the option to make the content stored at the second on-demand service viewable by the multiple users of the first on-demand service,

receiving at the first on-demand service, from the user machine, a user request to view a list of content that is viewable by the multiple users of the first on-demand service, the list of content including at least content that is stored at the first on-demand service and the content stored at the second on-demand service that was made viewable by the user based on the received selection; and

sending from the first on-demand service the list of content, including at least the content that is stored at the first on-demand service, and the content that is stored at the second on-demand service.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a request to edit content in the list, the content requested being stored at the second on-demand service;

in response opening a connection to the second on-demand service, opening the content; and

allowing the user to edit the content.

3. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first on-demand service and the second on-demand service are multi-tenant services.

4. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the first multi-tenant service includes a multi-tenant database.

5. The computer program product of claim 1, further comprising establishing a link within the first on-demand service that points to the content that is stored at the second on-demand service in response to the selection by the user of the option to make the content located at the second on-demand service viewable by the multiple users of the first on-demand service.

6. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein the link is placed in a web page of the first on-demand service.

7. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the link is used for accessing the content that is stored at the second on-demand service.

8. The computer program product of claim 5, wherein the user of the first on-demand service is prompted for login information prior to granting the user access to the content that is stored at the second on-demand service.

9. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the computer program product is operable such that information used to perform the login unique to the second on-demand service is provided to the second on-demand service prior to receiving the user request from the user machine at the first on-demand service.

10. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein selection by the user of the option to make the content located at the second on-demand service viewable by the multiple users of the first on-demand service causes the content to be displayed in a work space that is viewable by multiple users of the first on-demand service.

11. A method for sharing documents and content between on-demand services comprising:

utilizing a hardware processor, sending from a first on-demand service to a user machine a link that opens a webpage showing;

at least content associated with the user including content stored at a second on-demand service, the second on-demand service requiring a login unique to the second on-demand service, and

an option to make the content stored at the second on-demand service viewable by multiple users of the first on-demand service;

receiving a selection by the user of the option to make the content stored at the second on-demand service viewable by the multiple users of the first on-demand service,

receiving at the first on-demand service, from the user machine, a user request to view a list of content that is viewable by the multiple users of the first on-demand service, the list of content including at least content that is stored at the first on-demand service and the content stored at the second on-demand service that was made viewable by the user based on the received selection; and

sending from the first on-demand service the list of content, including at least the content that is stored at the first on-demand service, and the content that is stored at the second on-demand service receiving, at a machine resident, first on-demand service, from a user machine, a user request to view a list of content that is viewable by multiple users of the first on-demand service.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving a request to edit content in the list, the content requested being stored at the second on-demand service;

in response, opening a connection to the second on-demand service, opening the content; and

allowing the user to edit the content.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein at least one of the first on-demand service and the second on-demand service are multi-tenant services.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the first multi-tenant service includes a multi-tenant database.

15. A system for sharing documents and content between on-demand services, the system comprising:

a host system having a hardware processor, volatile memory, and non-volatile memory;

the non-volatile memory including at least one machine readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions which when executed by the hardware processor causes the hardware processor to implement a method comprising;

sending from a first on-demand service to a user machine a link that opens a webpage showing;

at least content associated with the user including content stored at a second on-demand service, the second on-demand service requiring a login unique to the second on-demand service, and

an option to make the content stored at the second on-demand service viewable by multiple users of the first on-demand service;

receiving a selection by the user of the option to make the content stored at the second on-demand service viewable by the multiple users of the first on-demand service,

receiving at the first on-demand service, from the user machine, a user request to view a list of content that is viewable by the multiple users of the first on-demand service, the list of content including at least content that is stored at the first on-demand service and the content stored at the second on-demand service that was made viewable by the user based on the received selection; and

sending from the first on-demand service the list of content, including at least the content that is stored at the first on-demand service, and the content that is stored at the second on-demand service.

16. The system of claim 15, further comprising:

receiving a request to edit content in the list, the content requested being stored at the second on-demand service;

in response opening a connection to the second on-demand service, opening the content; and

allowing the user to edit the content.

17. The system of claim 15, wherein at least one of the first on-demand service and the second on-demand service are multi-tenant services.

18. The system of claim 15, wherein the first multi-tenant service includes a multi-tenant database.