Computer-implemented method for launching an installed application

• US 9,639,240 B2
• Filed: 01/16/2014
• Issued: 05/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dassault Systemes SA
• Original Assignee: Dassault Systemes SA
• Inventors: Charles, Bernard, Florack, Dominique, Menghini, Monica, Masson, Hubert
• Primary Examiner(s): Bautista, Xiomar L
• Application Number:
  US14/157,513
• Publication Number:
  US 20140208241A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,202 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/445 Program loading or initiating bootstrapping G06F9/4401; security arrangements for program loading or initiating G06F21/57

Abstract

A computer-implemented method for launching an installed application comprising the steps of:

• • providing a web browser;
  • displaying in the web browser a first list of at least one three-dimensional object;
  • selecting at least one three-dimensional object among said first list;
  • determining a second list of at least one installed application(s) able to use the selected object(s) of the first list;
  • displaying in the web browser said second list;
  • selecting an application in said second list; and
  • launching said selected application of said second list together with the opening of the selected object(s) of the first list.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for launching an installed application comprising the steps of:

providing a web browser;

displaying in the web browser a first list of at least one three-dimensional modeled object;

selecting at least one three-dimensional modeled object among said first list;

determining a second list of at least one installed application able to use the selected at least one three-dimensional modeled object of the first list;

displaying in the web browser said second list;

selecting an application in said second list; and

launching said selected application of said second list together with an opening of the selected at least one three-dimensional modeled object of the first list.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said first list is stored on a server connected to a memory means storing said at least one three-dimensional modeled object of said first list, and said at least one application of said second list is stored on a client.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein a Graphical Machine Interface of said web browser and of said selected application are identical, and at the launching of said selected application, options of its presentation are matched with options of presentations of the web browser.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of launching of said selected application with several three-dimensional modeled objects of said first list, storable on different data bases, is adapted to automatically launch several corresponding instances of the application.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the web browser and the at least one installed application of the second list have an identical command tool.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said second list comprises at least one of:

a three-dimensional Computer-Aid Design application, a Computer-Aided Engineering application, and a Computer-Aided Manufacturing application.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein an installed application is eligible for said second list, if the installed application is an authorized licensed application.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising:

a memory area having computer-executable instructions configured to cause a computer system to perform;

providing a web browser;

displaying in the web browser a first list of at least one three-dimensional modeled object;

selecting at least one three-dimensional modeled object among said first list;

determining a second list of at least one installed application able to use the selected at least one three-dimensional modeled object of the first list;

displaying in the web browser said second list;

selecting an application of said second list; and

launching said selected application of said second list together with an opening of the selected at least one three-dimensional modeled object of the first list.

9. A computer program product, comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable medium configured for launching an installed application in a computer system;

code means stored on the computer readable medium and when executed by a computer causes the computer system to;

provide a web browser;

display in the web browser a first list of at least one three-dimensional modeled object;

select at least one three-dimensional modeled object among said first list;

determine a second list of at least one installed application able to use the selected at least one three-dimensional modeled object of the first list;

display in the web browser said second list;

select an application in said second list; and

launch said selected application of said second list together with an opening of the selected at least one three-dimensional modeled object of the first list.

10. An apparatus for launching an installed application of a computer-aided system comprising:

means for providing a web browser;

display means displaying in the web browser a first list of at least one three-dimensional modeled object;

user interface means for selecting at least one three-dimensional modeled object among said first list;

processor means for determining a second list of at least one installed application able to use the selected at least one three-dimensional modeled object of the first list;

the display means displaying in the web browser said second list;

the user interface means enabling user selection of an application of said second list; and

processor means for launching said selected application of said second list together with an opening of the selected at least one three-dimensional modeled object of the first list.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein said first list is stored on a server connected to a memory means storing said at least one three-dimensional modeled object of said first list, and said at least one installed application of said second list is stored on a client.

12. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein a Graphical Machine Interface of said web browser and of said selected installed application are identical, and at the launching of said selected application, options of its presentation are matched with the options of presentations of the web browser.

13. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the processor means (a) launches the selected application with plural three-dimensional modeled objects on the first list and storeable on different data bases, and (b) is adapted to automatically launch multiple corresponding instances of the selected application.

14. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the web browser and the at least one installed application of the second list have an identical command tool.

15. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein said second list comprises at least one of a:

three-dimensional Computer-Aid Design application, a Computer-Aided Engineering application, and a Computer-Aided Manufacturing application.

16. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein an installed application is eligible for said second list, if the installed application is an authorized licensed application.