Method for enabling a mobile user equipment to drag and drop data objects between distributed applications

• US 8,966,386 B2
• Filed: 06/01/2009
• Issued: 02/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Fok, Frederick Ah Chuen, Delabarre, Nicolas
• Primary Examiner(s): Bashore, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): ORR, HENRY W
• Application Number:
  US12/995,918
• Publication Number:
  US 20110099497A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,094 Days
• Field of Search: 715/769
• US Class Current: 715/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/08 specially adapted for terminal emulation, e.g. Telnet
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/142 Managing session states for stateless protocols; Signalling session states; State transitions; Keeping-state mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72409 by interfacing with external accessories hands-free H04M1/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/04 Error control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits

Abstract

The invention concerns a system and a method for enabling a mobile User Equipment (81) to drag and drop data objects between at least two remote applications (7, 9) or between a local application (2) and a remote application (7, 9), the system including a Drag Source (10), a Drag Target (12), a Drop Source (14), and a Drop Target (16). In the system according to the invention, the Drag Source (10) is configured for negotiating with the Drag Target (12) a transmission protocol (38, 32, 100, 102, 104) for exchanging said data object between said Drop Source (14) and said Drop Target (16).

Claims

1. A system configured to enable a mobile User Equipment to drag and drop a data object between at least two remote applications or between a remote application and a local application, the system comprising:

a hardware processor configured to implement a Drag Source, a Drag Target, a Drop Source, and a Drop Target,

wherein the Drag Source is configured to negotiate with said Drag Target a transmission protocol for exchanging said data object between said Drop Source and said Drop Target,

wherein said data object comprises a Dragged Data Object and a Dropped Data Object,

wherein said Drag Source owns said Dragged Data Object and is an Initiator of a drag-and-drop communication protocol,

wherein said Drag Target is defined as a receiver of said Dragged Data Object,

wherein said Drop Source is a drop element configurable by said Drag Source and configured to send said Dropped Data Object using an appropriate data transfer mechanism, and

wherein said Drop Target is a drop element configured to receive said Dropped Data Object.

2. The system according to claim 1 wherein said transmission protocol uses either an in-the-band transmission channel or an out-of-the band transmission channel for transmitting data objects from said Drop Source to said Drop Target.

3. The system according to claim 2 wherein the mobile User Equipment is configured to select a set of data objects on a Remote Application and to drop the selected data objects into a local application which triggers the exchange of said set of data objects from Drop Source to said Drop Target.

4. The system according to claim 2 wherein the mobile User Equipment is configured to select a set of data objects on a first Remote Application and to drop the selected set of data objects into a second Remote Application.

5. The system according to claim 2 wherein the mobile User Equipment is configured to select a set of data objects on a local application and to drop the selected set of data objects into a remote application.

6. The system according to claim 3 wherein said Drag Source and said Drop Source are located in said mobile User Equipment, while said Drag Target and said Drop Target are either located in a unique remote server or distributed in different remote servers.

7. The system according to claim 6 wherein said Drop Source is a Subscriber Identity Module or a peripheral connected to said mobile User Equipment using wireless or fixed communication interface.