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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2008
Larry Masinter, Los Altos, CA (US);
Roger Webster, San Martin, CA (US);
Larry Masinter, Los Altos, CA (US);
Roger Webster, San Martin, CA (US);
Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing techniques for selecting an application to be used to manipulate a file in a computing environment. The technique includes receiving a request to manipulate a file, the file having a file type, identifying a plurality of applications associated with the file type in the computing environment, and selecting an application from the plurality of applications associated with the file type based at least in part on context information representing a context of the computing environment. Each of the identified plurality of applications associated with the file type are capable of manipulating files of the file type.