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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2004
Eric S. Peyton, Lisle, IL (US);
Tim W. Bumgarner, Sharpsburg, MD (US);
Todd R. Fernandez, Mountain View, CA (US);
David H. Soghoian, Earlysville, VA (US);
Eric S. Peyton, Lisle, IL (US);
Tim W. Bumgarner, Sharpsburg, MD (US);
Todd R. Fernandez, Mountain View, CA (US);
David H. Soghoian, Earlysville, VA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A technique for use in a computer is disclosed. The method includes determining a context and a data requirement for a candidate action to be selected, the selection specifying an action in a workflow; and filtering the candidate actions for relevance in light of the context and the data requirement. The filtering includes one of according a relevance to each of the candidate actions relative to the degree to which data type conversion will be required between the selected action and the respective candidate action; and according a relevance to each of the candidate actions that require no data conversion to accept the output of the previously selected action as input. The apparatus, in a first aspect, includes a program storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computing device, performs the method. In a second aspect, the apparatus includes a computing apparatus programmed to perform the method.