Managing a contextual workspace

• US 9,218,189 B2
• Filed: 10/04/2011
• Issued: 12/22/2015
• 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: Vainer, Vitaly, Bavly, Guy, Alon, Ram, Schlank, Hila, Shafrir, Ev, Tkach, Vladimir, Kossoy, Oleg, Khalatov, Dmitry, Greenshpan, Yaakov, Guzanski, Avi, Gross, Ran, Sherman, Yahali
• Primary Examiner(s): Hong, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): ROBINSON, MARSHON L
• Application Number:
  US13/252,549
• Publication Number:
  US 20130086483A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,540 Days
• Field of Search: 715/212, 715/751, 715/753
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 cubes stored in an in-memory database;

identifying an interaction by the user with a particular data cube of the one or more data cubes, the identifying comprising;

identifying a cursor location in the virtual workspace coincident with a particular workspace module presented to the user through the virtual workspace; and

identifying a description of the particular workspace module based on the identified cursor location; and

identifying one or more properties associated with the particular data cube based on the identified description of the particular workspace module;

querying one or more additional data cubes based on the identified one or more properties associated with the particular data cube to identify a subset of the one or more additional data cubes that are associated with one or more additional properties that match the identified one or more properties associated with the particular data cube;

identifying additional data associated with the subset of the one or more additional data cubes, wherein the additional data includes i) data that is semantically related to the particular data cube and ii) data that specifies an arrangement of one or more additional workspace modules with respect to the plurality of workspace modules of the virtual workspace, the one or more additional workspace modules including the semantically related data; and

updating the virtual workspace to include the one or more additional workspaces modules based on the arrangement data to provide an updated virtual workspace.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying a metadata description of the particular data cube, wherein the metadata description comprises a title of the particular data cube.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the interaction further comprises identifying a selection, by the user, of data contained in the particular data cube.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying particular ones of the plurality of workspace modules presented to the user through the virtual workspace.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising identifying at least a portion of metadata associated with a particular workspace module presented to the user through the virtual workspace.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising searching data contained in the particular data cube one for at least one keyword.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein identifying the additional data associated with the one or more additional data cubes further comprises:

searching data contained in the subset of the one or more additional data cubes for the at least one keyword; and

identifying data contained in the subset of the one or more additional data cubes containing the keyword as the additional data.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the additional identified data associated with the subset of the one or more additional data cubes.

9. 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 cubes stored in an in-memory database;

identifying an interaction by the user with a particular data cube of the one or more data cubes, the identifying comprising;

identifying a cursor location in the virtual workspace coincident with a particular workspace module presented to the user through the virtual workspace; and

identifying a description of the particular workspace module based on the identified cursor location; and

identifying one or more properties associated with the particular data cube based on the identified description of the particular workspace module;

querying one or more additional data cubes based on the identified one or more properties associated with the particular data cube to identify a subset of the one or more additional data cubes that are associated with one or more additional properties that match the identified one or more properties associated with the particular data cube;

identifying additional data associated with the subset of the one or more additional data cubes, wherein the additional data includes i) data this is semantically related to the particular data cube and ii) data that specifies an arrangement of one or more additional workspace modules with respect to the plurality of workspace modules of the virtual workspace, the one or more additional workspace modules including the semantically related data; and

updating the virtual workspace to include the one or more additional workspaces modules based on the arrangement data to provide an updated virtual workspace.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein identifying the interaction further comprises identifying a selection, by the user, of data contained in the particular data cube.

11. The apparatus of claim 9, further comprising identifying particular ones of the plurality of workspace modules presented to the user through the virtual workspace.

12. The apparatus of claim 9, further comprising identifying at least a portion of metadata associated with a particular workspace module presented to the user through the virtual workspace.

13. The apparatus of claim 9, further comprising searching data contained in the particular data cube for at least one keyword.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein identifying the additional data associated with the one or more additional data cubes further comprises:

searching data contained in the subset of the one or more additional data cubes for the at least one keyword;

identifying data contained in the subset of the one or more additional data cubes containing the keyword as the additional data.

15. 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 cubes stored in an in-memory data base;

identifying an interaction by the user with a particular data cube of the one or more data cubes, the identifying comprising;

identifying a cursor location in the virtual workspace coincident with a particular workspace module presented to the user through the virtual workspace; and

identifying a description of the particular workspace module based on the identified cursor location; and

identifying one or more properties associated with the particular data cube based on the identified description of the particular workspace module;

querying one or more additional data cubes based on the identified one or more properties associated with the particular data cube to identify a subset of the one or more additional data cubes that are associated with one or more additional properties that match the identified one or more properties associated with the particular data cube;

identifying additional data associated with the subset of the one or more additional data cubes, wherein the additional data includes i) data that is semantically related to the particular data cube and ii) data that specifies an arrangement of one or more additional workspace modules with respect to the plurality of workspace modules of the virtual workspace, the one or more additional workspace modules including the semantically related data; and

updating the virtual workspace to include the one or more additional workspaces modules based on the arrangement data to provide an updated virtual workspace.

16. The system of claim 15, further comprising identifying particular ones of the plurality of workspace modules presented to the user through the virtual workspace.

17. The system of claim 15, further comprising identifying at least a portion of metadata associated with a particular workspace module presented to the user through the virtual workspace.

18. The system of claim 15, further comprising searching data contained in the particular data cube for at least one keyword.