In-situ mobile application suggestions and multi-application updates through context specific analytics

• US 8,904,274 B2
• Filed: 05/14/2010
• Issued: 12/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Gnanasambandam, Shanmuganathan, Batra, Eiti
• Primary Examiner(s): SHIAU, SHEN C
• Application Number:
  US12/780,267
• Publication Number:
  US 20110283230A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,663 Days
• Field of Search: 715/780, 715/810, 715/226
• US Class Current: 715/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality

Abstract

A system for implementing simultaneous functionality for a wireless communications device (WCD), including a processor for a first specially programmed computer in the WCD for: displaying, on a screen of a GUI for the WCD, a visual representation for a first application; receiving, via the GUI, input data for a plurality of fields for the first application; presenting respective sensory representations of a plurality of applications via the GUI while maintaining the visual representation on the screen; and receiving, via the GUI, respective inputs selecting the applications while maintaining the visual representation. The system includes a processor for a second specially programmed computer processor separate from the WCD for: identifying respective portions of the input data usable by the applications; simultaneously populating the first application and the applications with the input data and the respective portions of the input data, respectively; and implementing the first application and the applications.

Claims

1. A computer-based system for implementing simultaneously functionality using a single screen of a graphical user interface (GUI) for a wireless communications device (WCD), comprising:

a first processor for a first specially programmed computer in the WCD for;

displaying, on the single screen of the GUI, a first visual representation for a first application, the first application including;

a first plurality of fields; and

,

at least one first function;

receiving input data for the first plurality of fields via the GUI; and

,

a second processor for a second specially programmed computer, located separate from the WCD, for;

identifying a first portion of the input data usable in a second application, the second application different from the first application and including at least one second function different from the at least one first function;

accessing a history of data usage by the first application;

analyzing, using the second processor and back end analytics in the second processor, the history of data usage;

modifying, using the second processor, the back end analytics, and the analysis of the history of data usage, the first portion of the input data, wherein;

the first processor is for presenting, on the single screen of the GUI and using the first processor, a second visual representation of the second application while maintaining the first visual representation on the single screen of the GUI;

the second processor is for populating the second application with the modified first portion of the input data;

the first processor is for;

receiving, via the GUI and while maintaining the first visual representation on the single screen of the GUI, an input selecting the second application; and

,

receiving, via the GUI and while maintaining the first and second visual representations on the single screen of the GUI, a command to implement the first and second applications; and

,

the second processor is for implementing the at least one first and second functions.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the second processor is for:

selecting, using the first portion of the input data and respective descriptions of how the first and second applications work, additional data applicable to the second application; and

,

populating the second application with the additional data.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one first and second functions operate differently on the first portion of the input data.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the second processor is for:

identifying, responsive to the second application, a second portion of the input data usable in a third application;

presenting a sensory representation of the third application via the GUI while maintaining the first visual representations on the screen;

populating the third application with the second portion of the input data;

receiving, via the GUI, an input selecting the third application while maintaining the first visual representation on the screen;

receiving, via the GUI, a command to implement the third application; and

,

implementing the third application.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the second processor is for:

identifying, responsive to the second application, a second portion of the input data usable in a third application;

presenting a sensory representation of the third application via the GUI while maintaining the first visual representations on the screen; and

,

populating the third application with the second portion of the input data.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the first processor is for:

displaying the first visual representation on a first portion of the screen; and

,

presenting the second visual representation on a second portion of the screen different from the first portion.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the second processor is for:

accessing a first history of interactions of a user with the first or second application;

or

accessing a second history of data usage by the first or second application, wherein identifying the first portion of the input data usable by the second application includes using the first or second history.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein the second processor is for:

accessing respective histories of interactions of a plurality of users with the first or second application;

or

accessing a history of data usage by the first or second application, wherein identifying the first portion of the input data usable by the second application includes using the respective histories or the history.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein the second processor is for:

identifying a respective portion of the input data usable by each application from a plurality of applications;

presenting, via the GUI, a respective sensory representation of said each application while maintaining the display of the first visual representation on the screen; and

,

populating the plurality of applications with the respective portions of the input data prior to receipt, via the GUI, of an input selecting an application from the plurality of applications.

10. The system of claim 1 wherein the second processor is for:

identifying a respect portion of the input data usable by each application from a plurality of applications;

presenting, via the GUI, a respective sensory representation of said each application while maintaining the display of the first visual representation on the screen;

populating said each application with the respective portion of the input data;

receiving, via the GUI, respective inputs selecting said each application from a plurality of applications while maintaining the display of the first visual representation on the screen; and

,

implementing, via the processor, each said application.

11. The system of claim 1 wherein the second processor is for:

modifying the first portion of the input data; and

,

populating the second application with the modified first portion of the input data.

12. The system of claim 1 wherein:

the second application includes a second plurality of fields; and

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the second processor is for;

receiving, in a temporal sequence and via the GUI, respective portions of the input data for the first plurality of fields while maintaining the display of the first visual representation on the screen;

identifying, in the temporal sequence, respective fields from the second plurality of fields in which the respective portions of input data are usable;

populating, in the temporal sequence, the respective fields from the second plurality of fields with the respective portions of input data; and

,

presenting, in the temporal sequence, sensory representations of the respective fields from the second plurality of fields via the GUI while maintaining the display of the first visual representation on the screen.

13. The system of claim 1 wherein the first application is an email application.

14. The system of claim 1 wherein the first or second applications are an email application, a blog application, a text message application, an instant messaging application, or a social networking platform application.