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Markus Latzina

Slavin Donchev

Anoshirwan Soltani

Knut Manske

Joerg Beringer

Katharina Goering

Matthias Kaiser

Abhay A Tiple

Cirrus Shakeri

Thomas Herrmann

The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for managing and persisting application interfaces and windows into reusable arrangements. In one example, a method may include identifying a work area of a first user, the work area including a presentation of a plurality of windows, each window associated with an application and receiving a selection of at least one of the plurality of windows in the work area. In response to receiving a request to associate the selected windows with a workplace schema, locations of the selected windows in the work area are determined. The determined locations of the selected windows are stored in a first workplace schema, where the first workplace schema stores the layout of the work area based on the determined locations of the selected windows.

Persistent application interface management

According to some embodiments, a source application part may be established having a source data object with a set of source attribute identifiers and associated source attribute values. A target application part may also be established having a target data object with a set of target attribute identifiers. An object reuse platform may then receive, from a user via a graphical interface, an indication that the source data object relates to the target data object. The object reuse platform may then calculate, for each source attribute identifier, a probability that the source attribute identifier is associated with one of the target attribute identifiers.

Semi-automatic object reuse across application parts

In some implementations, there is provided an apparatus having at least one data processor and at least one memory storing instructions which, when executed by the at least one data processor, cause requesting a configuration of a user interface element associated with a user interface of an application being executed at, or accessed by, the apparatus; presenting a configuration user interface to enable configuration of the user interface element, the configuration user interface including at least one option for configuring the user interface element and an indication of whether a selected option is to be applied at runtime, to just the application or a plurality of applications; and presenting, during runtime of at least the application, the user interface element in accordance with the at least one option and/or the indication selected via the configuration user interface. Related systems and articles of manufacture are also provided.

User interface element consistency across cloud-based applications

A computer-implemented method includes incorporating a usage model in a business application hosted on a computing device. The usage model describes anticipated usages of the business application by a user and is specified using a formal machine readable language. The method includes providing an adapter configured to automatically translate the usage model in the business application to a UI profile consistent with a UI technology available on the computing device on which the business application is hosted.

Usage description language

According to some embodiments, a logical set operator platform may recognize that a user has selected, via a graphical user interface, a sub-set of items from an item set associated with a source application. The logical set operator platform may then receive an indication from the user that a selected logical set operation is to be applied to the item set and to the selected sub-set of items, wherein the selected logical set operation is not implemented by the source application. The selected logical set operation may be applied to create a resulting item set based on the selected sub-set of items, and it then may be arranged for an indication of the resulting item set to be provided to a receiving application.

Logical set operations

A communication port may exchange information with a user via a graphical user interface, and an application data store may contain information about executable applications, including input data and output data associated with each executable application. A merging platform may recognize that a user has selected, via the graphical user interface, a first executable application in the application data store. The merging platform may also recognize that the user has selected a second executable application in the application data store and receive an indication from the user that an application merging application is to be triggered. Responsive to this triggering, the merging application may merge behaviors of the first executable application and the second executable application, including functionality of the input and output data of each executable application, to create a merged application. The merging platform may then arrange to facilitate execution of the merged application.

Merging applications

A visual analytics system includes a memory and a processor. The processor executes a clustering application having an interactive user-interface rendered on a client computer. The clustering application determines a first cluster of data items of a data set, the data items in the first cluster having first attribute values that are similar to each other within a first degree of similarity and determines a second cluster of data items of the data set, the data items in the second cluster having second attribute values that are similar to each other within a second degree of similarity. For visual analytics, the user interface receives a user selection of a third degree of similarity. In response to which, the clustering application determines a third cluster of data items of the data set, the data items in the third cluster being dissimilar to either the first attribute value of the first reference data item or the second attribute value of the second reference data item by at least the third degree of similarity, and visually displays the third cluster of data items on the user interface.

Discriminative clustering

A method, user interface, and computer-readable medium to receive a representation of a first query item, the first query item belonging to a data set and having at least one attribute; receive a representation of a second query item, the second query item being defined as relating to at least one particular attribute of another query item; associate the second query item with the first query item; automatically retrieve, in response to the second query item being associated with the first query item, a value for the at least one particular attribute of the second query item from the first query item; and save a record of the retrieved value.

Data item reference for a query definition

A computer device displays a graph of a data set. The computer device includes a hybrid data analysis and visualization tool to query implicit properties of data items in the data set that are not evident upon visual inspection of the graph of the data set itself. The hybrid data analysis and visualization tool combines the graph of the data set with analog representations of data query results for visual data exploration.

Data exploration combining visual inspection and analytic search

A task-oriented search tool searches for one or more tasks related to a search term submitted via a computer-user interface. The task-oriented search tool displays search results that include a task related to the search term and a task-solving tool for performing the task related to the search term.

Task-oriented search engine output

Various examples include systems, methods, and software that provide transformative user interfaces. Some examples include a container renderable within a user interface of a computing application. In some such examples, code of the container may be executable to receive an object to present within the container. Further, and based on a context of the container, such examples may present a view of the object within the container based on rendering information retrieved by the container via a rendering service of the object defining how the object is to be presented within the particular context of the container amongst a plurality of possible contexts within which the object can be rendered. In some examples, a container may further override and modify object behaviors when depending upon at least the particular container or context the context thereof.

Transformative user interfaces

A computer device receives a personal authentication statement from a user seeking to access concealed computer objects or applications on the computer device. A parser syntactically parses the personal authentication statement to extract a user-authentication token and a computer objects-authentication token. The computer objects-authentication token can identify one or more concealed computer objects on the computer device. The computer device reveals the one or more concealed computer objects to the user upon authentication of the user and verification that the authenticated user is authorized to access the concealed computer objects.

Personal authentications on computing devices

In one general aspect, a computer system can include instructions stored on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The computer system can include an application link manager configured to receive an indicator that a first application is linked to a second application, and an object generator configured to store a copy of data from a database of the first application and represented within a user interface of the first application as a core object in a storage environment in response to the indicator that the first application is linked to the second application. The computer system can also include a database link manager configured to link a database of the second application with the core object stored in the storage environment in response to the copy of the data being stored as the core object in the storage environment.

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