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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2010
William C. Bulko, Austin, TX (US);
Glenn D. Johnson, Austin, TX (US);
David B. Kumhyr, Austin, TX (US);
Jacobo A. Vargas, Austin, TX (US);
Yvonne M. Young, Austin, TX (US);
William C. Bulko, Austin, TX (US);
Glenn D. Johnson, Austin, TX (US);
David B. Kumhyr, Austin, TX (US);
Jacobo A. Vargas, Austin, TX (US);
Yvonne M. Young, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for managing a user interface desktop workspace is provided. The method includes selecting applications in a desktop environment rendered in memory of a computer. The method also includes querying each of the selection applications, capturing through the querying, attributes for each of the selected applications and writing references to the selected applications and corresponding ones of the captured attributes to a workspace profile. The method further includes generating a workspace object from the workspace profile. Finally, the method includes configuring the workspace object in the desktop environment to respond to activation by loading each of the applications in the workspace profile using the corresponding ones of the captured attributes in the workspace profile.