Systems and methods for presentations with live application integration

• US 9,383,902 B2
• Filed: 06/28/2013
• Issued: 07/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Successfactors Incorporated (SAP SE)
• Original Assignee: Successfactors Incorporated (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Xu, Kai, Capraro, Michelangelo, McGhee, Scott, Phan, Thanh, Wang, Lei
• Primary Examiner(s): Lu, Hua
• Application Number:
  US13/931,377
• Publication Number:
  US 20150007040A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,103 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range

Abstract

The present disclosure includes presentations with pages that access data from backend applications. In one embodiment, a system is disclosed where presentation pages are sent from a server and received in a client. The presentation pages may include static pages and interactive pages. Interactive pages include active regions that may be selected to access features on server applications. In one embodiment, an active region may be a portion of a presentation page that is selectable to access an application feature. In another embodiment, an active region may be a presentation page that interactively exposes an application feature in the presentation page.

Claims

1. A method for integrating application features into a presentation document comprising:

receiving a presentation application comprising a plurality of presentation document pages at a client computer from a server computer, the presentation document pages comprising static pages and interactive pages arranged in a predetermined sequence,

wherein the static pages comprise static data and the interactive pages comprise one or more active regions specified at particular locations within an interactive presentation document page, wherein each active region comprises a geometric shape defined by a user within a portion of an interactive page that is selectable to perform a function call to the server computer to invoke a server application feature;

displaying the presentation document pages on the client computer sequentially in the predetermined sequence;

receiving, on the client computer, a selection of one of said active regions within one of the interactive pages;

sending to the server computer, in response to a selected active region on a particular interactive presentation document page, a message specifying a particular server application feature associated with the selected active region to access data corresponding to the particular server application feature;

receiving the data corresponding to the particular server application feature associated with the selected active region in the client computer to be rendered on the particular interactive page.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein in a timeline display mode a plurality of the presentation pages are displayed together in the predetermined sequence and in a presentation display mode the presentation pages are displayed one at a time in the predetermined sequence.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising receiving, in the client computer, changes to the data, and modifying the data in a server application including the particular server application feature.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

uploading a presentation having a first file type, wherein the presentation is translated into a plurality of images;

specifying one or more active regions on particular portions of one or more of said images; and

configuring the one or more active regions to access one or more server application features on one or more server applications.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

uploading a presentation having a first file type, wherein the presentation is translated into a plurality of images;

adding a presentation document page to the presentation, the presentation document page comprising an active region that interactively exposes a particular server application feature in the added presentation document page; and

configuring the active region in the added presentation document page to access the particular server application feature.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

uploading a presentation having a first file type;

parsing the presentation to extract text according to a predefined criteria; and

automatically configuring one or more active regions to access one or more server application features on one or more server applications based on the extracted text.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the presentation is translated into a plurality of images, and wherein the one or more active regions are configured on portions of the images comprising text that matches extracted text.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the static pages are images, and wherein one or more interactive pages comprise images and active regions specified on particular portions of the images.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the data corresponding to the particular server application feature associated with the selected active region is displayed as a pop-up over one of the interactive page images.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the static pages are images, and wherein one or more interactive pages comprise an active region that interactively exposes specified server application features in a presentation document page.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein each presentation document page has corresponding metadata, and wherein metadata for interactive pages specifies the server application feature associated with each active region.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein static pages comprise metadata specifying a location of an image for each static page.

13. The method of claim 11 wherein one or more interactive pages comprise metadata specifying a location of an image for a corresponding interactive page and metadata specifying, for each active region on each interactive page, one or more custom parameters for accessing data for the server application feature.

14. The method of claim 11 wherein metadata for one or more interactive presentation document pages further comprises one or more custom parameters for interactively exposing the particular server application feature in a presentation document page.

15. The method of claim 11 further comprising receiving rendering code to render the metadata and data in a display.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein the rendering code instantiates different classes for different server application features associated with each active region to access specified server application features.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein each presentation document page has a page type specified in the metadata, and wherein the rendering code receives metadata specifying that a first presentation document page has a first page type that corresponds to a first server application feature, and wherein the rendering code instantiates a class for interfacing with the first server application feature based on the page type.

18. The method of claim 16 wherein each presentation document page has a page type specified in the metadata, and wherein the rendering code receives metadata specifying that a first presentation document page has a first page type having an image and an active region associated with a first server application feature, and wherein the rendering code instantiates a class for interfacing with the first server application feature based on metadata describing the active region.

19. The method of claim 1 wherein different active regions are operable to access same or different server application features, wherein each active region accesses different server application features from a same server application or accesses server application features from multiple different server applications.

20. A computer system for integrating application features into a presentation document comprising:

a processor; and

a non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon one or more computer programs, which when executed by the processor, causes the processor to;

receive a presentation application comprising a plurality of presentation document pages, the presentation document pages comprising static pages and interactive pages arranged in a predetermined sequence,

wherein the static pages comprise static data and the interactive pages comprise one or more active regions specified at particular locations within an interactive presentation document page, wherein each active region comprises a geometric shape defined by a user that is displayed within a portion of an interactive page that is selectable to perform a function call to the server computer to invoke a server application feature;

display the presentation document pages sequentially in the predetermined sequence;

receive a selection of one of said active regions within one of the interactive pages;

send to the computer server, in response to a selected active region on a particular interactive presentation document page, a message specifying a particular server application feature associated with the selected active region to access data corresponding to the particular server application feature;

receive the data corresponding to the particular server application feature associated with the selected active region to be rendered on the particular interactive page.

21. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more computer programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions for:

receiving a presentation application comprising a plurality of presentation document pages at a client computer from a server computer, the presentation document pages comprising static pages and interactive pages arranged in a predetermined sequence,

wherein the static pages comprise static data and the interactive pages comprise one or more active regions specified at particular locations within an interactive presentation document page, wherein each active region comprises a geometric shape defined by a user that is displayed within a portion of an interactive page that is selectable to perform a function call to the server computer to invoke a server application feature;

displaying the presentation document pages on the client computer sequentially in the predetermined sequence;

receiving, on the client computer, a selection of one of said active regions within one of the interactive pages;

sending to the server computer, in response to a selected active region on a particular interactive presentation document page, a message specifying a particular server application feature associated with the selected active region to access data corresponding to the particular server application feature;

receiving the data corresponding to the particular server application feature associated with the selected active region in the client computer to be rendered on the particular interactive page.