SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT

• US 20120233205A1
• Filed: 05/23/2012
• Published: 09/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: INWARE, LLC
• Original Assignee: INWARE, LLC
• Inventors: McDermott, David D.
• Application Number:
  US13/478,626
• Publication Number:
  US 20120233205A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop

Abstract

Systems and methods for uploading one or more documents to a document management database are presented. The system can include a memory, a listener component that detects when a document has been dragged or dropped onto a persistent doc drop element, and a doc drop module that, as a function of the document being dragged or dropped onto the persistent doc drop element, converts the document into a portable document format and queues a converted document to a task specific queue, and in response to a user terminating a task associated with the task specific queue, uploads content queued in the task specific queue to a database associated with a web service.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a memory;

a listener component that detects when a document has been dragged or dropped onto a persistent doc drop element; and

a doc drop module that, as a function of the document being dragged or dropped onto the persistent doc drop element, converts the document into a portable document format and queues a converted document to a task specific queue, and in response to a user terminating a task associated with the task specific queue, uploads content queued in the task specific queue to a database associated with a web service.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the document dragged or dropped onto the persistent doc drop element is converted in one or more of a word processing format, a spreadsheet format, a postscript format, or a text format.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the doc drop module generates and dispatches a notification to a friend of the user informing the friend that queued content has been uploaded to the database associated with the web service.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the doc drop module maintains authentication information associated with the user, the authentication information is utilized by the doc drop module to establish connection with the database associated with the web service without interaction with the user.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the doc drop module activates a scanner to acquire a document in response to the user activating a first functionality associated with the persistent doc drop element.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the document acquired by the scanner in response the user activating the first functionality associated with the persistent doc drop element is queued to the task specific queue.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the doc drop module, in response to the user activating a second functionality associated with the persistent doc drop element, searches the database associated with the web service for an item of interest to the user.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein as a function of a placement of a pointing device cursor over the second functionality, the doc drop, module generates a user input interface for the user to enter a search term for the item of interest to the user.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the doc drop module, as a function of the user activating a third functionality associated with the persistent doc drop element by hovering a representation of a pointing device cursor over the persistent doc drop element, causes a format specific viewer to display document included in the task specific queue.

10. A method, comprising:

listening for a drag or drop event, wherein a document is dragged or dropped over a persistent doc drop element;

transforming the document from a first document format to a second document format;

placing the document transformed to the second document format into a task specific queue or a format specific queue; and

transferring the document transformed to the second document format from the task specific queue or the format specific queue to a document management database associated with a web service.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the first document format includes one of one or more word processing format, one or more spreadsheet format, a postscript format, one or more structured hypertext markup language (HTML) format, one or more file formats for multimedia and vector graphics, or one or more digital encoding formats.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the second document format includes a portable document format.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the transferring commences in response to releasing the task specific queue or the format specific queue from a hold state.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the transferring commences as a function of a user terminating execution of the persistent doc drop element.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising generating a notification broadcast to a friend of the user terminating execution of the persistent doc drop element.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the notification is broadcast using one of an electronic mail, short message service (SMS), or multimedia message service (MMS).

17. A system, comprising:

at least one non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable components;

at least one microprocessor that executes the following computer executable components stored on the at least one non-transitory computer readable medium;

a listener component that detects an event that includes reception of a document formatted in a first data format by a persistent doc drop element;

a queue component that transforms the document formatted in the first format into a document formatted in a second data format, wherein the document formatted in the second format is placed in a task specific queue that is maintained in a hold state; and

a database interface component that transfers the document formatted in the second format to a document management database associated with a web service in response to the task specific queue being released from the hold state.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the task specific queue is released from the hold state in response to execution of the persistent doc drop element being terminated.

19. The system of claim 17, further comprising, in response to activation of a first functionality presented by the persistent doc drop element, a scanner component that activates a remote scanner to scan a document formatted in the second format, wherein the document formatted in the second format is placed in the task specific queue.

20. The system of claim 17, further comprising, in response to activation of a second functionality presented by the persistent doc drop element, a download component retrieves a document formatted in the second format from the document management database associated with the web service.