Synchronization of content between a cloud store and a pinned object on a mobile device

Abstract

A pinning service interaction agent receives a user input indicating an object, corresponding to an application, to be pinned to a selected mobile device screen. The agent receives user selection of content, that is stored in a document on a remote data store, to be displayed in the object. The agent intermittently receives refresh data refreshing the content displayed in the pinned object based on the content stored in the document on the remote data store.

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Background technique

[0001] Computing systems are currently in widespread use. Some computing systems are cloud-based computing systems hosting services. Services can take many different forms. For example, they could be services for generating or authoring content, such as word processing services, spreadsheet services, slide presentation services, and so on.

[0002] Computing systems also include mobile devices. Users often use their mobile devices to access documents and other data that may be stored in the cloud. Sometimes certain types of data or content are stored in the cloud that users may need to access repeatedly throughout the day.

[0003] Accessing cloud-based data in this manner means that the mobile device must use a relatively large amount of computational overhead and bandwidth when establishing contact with the cloud computing system, launching or accessing the application to access the document, and then opening the file (or documents) to access the des...

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