Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Task completion through inter-application communication
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Application No.: US13713375Application Date: 2012-12-13
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Publication No.: US10489190B2Publication Date: 2019-11-26
- Inventor: Amit Kumar , Shajib Sadhukha , Zhaowei Jiang
- Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Main IPC: G06F9/46
- IPC: G06F9/46 ; G06F9/48

Abstract:
Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems for facilitating task completion through inter-application communication and/or for registering a target application for contextually aware task execution are provided. That is, a current application may display content comprising an entity (e.g., a mapping application may display a restaurant entity). One or more actions capable of being performed on the entity may be exposed (e.g., a reserve table action). Responsive to selection of an action, one or more target applications capable of performing the action on the entity may be presented. Responsive to selection of a target application, contextual information for the entity and/or the action may be passed to the target application so that the target application may be launched in a contextually relevant state to facilitate completion of a task. For example, a dinning application may be launched to a table reservation form for the restaurant entity.
Public/Granted literature
- US10528385B2 Task completion through inter-application communication Public/Granted day:2020-01-07
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