US 9,916,079 B2
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENABLING THE SHARING OF INFORMATION BETWEEN APPLICATIONS ON A COMPUTING DEVICEGeneral
US 9,916,079 B2
METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENABLING THE SHARING OF INFORMATION BETWEEN APPLICATIONS ON A COMPUTING DEVICE
Tech Center:
2100 Computer Architecture and Software
Examiner:
William Titcomb
Art Unit:
2141 Graphical User Interface and Document Processing
Agent:
Michael L. Wach
Inventors:
Carsten Michael Dietz
Assignee:
Priority:
06/04/15
Filed:
06/04/15
Granted:
03/13/18
Expiration:
05/22/35
Abstract
A method and system for enabling the sharing of information between a first application and a second application on a computing device are described herein. The method includes the steps of receiving a global search request through the first application and—in response to the reception of the global search request—prompting for a search term from a user. The method further includes the steps of receiving the search term and—based on the received search term—automatically presenting one or more corresponding candidate elements associated with the second application for selection by the user. In addition, the method includes the steps of receiving the selection of at least one of the candidate elements and linking the selected candidate element with the first application such that a user may access the selected candidate element from the first application.
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
G06G06F3/0488G06F