Background AI Command Search for Connected App Workflows
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face challenges in accessing content from integrated applications without disrupting their workflow, particularly when context switching between applications, and existing technologies do not provide seamless command search and AI assistant functionalities outside the application's foreground.
Innovation Solution
A system that allows for command search and AI assistant functionalities within an integrated application without opening it, enabling search and AI-generated content access from the background, and supports interaction with third-party applications via a unique user identifier and API.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users access content from integrated applications by opening the application, then content accessibility is improved, but workflow disruption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the search and AI assistant functionalities from the integrated application's foreground interface and implements them in a separate background process. This allows users to access content and generate AI responses without switching to or opening the integrated application, thereby maintaining workflow continuity while enabling content accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a background process as an intermediary between the user and the integrated application. This background process handles search queries and AI assistant requests, communicating results back to the user without requiring the user to open the integrated application, thus serving as a mediator that enables access while preventing workflow disruption.
2Adaptability or versatility
If command search and AI assistant functionalities are integrated within the application, then functionality completeness is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts command search and AI assistant functionalities from the integrated application's core structure and implements them as separate background processes. This separation maintains the completeness of functionality while reducing the complexity of the integrated application itself, as these features no longer need to be tightly coupled with the application's foreground interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The background process is designed to handle multiple functionalities (command search, AI assistant, content generation) in a universal manner. By implementing these diverse functions in a single background process rather than distributing them across multiple integrated application modules, the patent reduces overall system complexity while maintaining functionality completeness.
3Productivity
If the application runs in the background, then workflow continuity is improved, but content search capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a background process as an intermediary that maintains active communication with the integrated application running in the background. This intermediary process performs content search operations and retrieves results without requiring the main application to be in the foreground, thereby preserving both workflow continuity and content search capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The background process performs preliminary actions by pre-loading and indexing content from the integrated application while it runs in the background. This preparation work enables fast and effective content search when queries are submitted, eliminating the need for the application to be in the foreground while maintaining full search capability.
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AI summary
A system detects a command input to launch a secondary application in a computing device. The secondary application is configured to present content of an integrated application and of a third-party application accessible by the integrated application. The secondary application and the integrated application are coupled via a unique user identifier. In response to the command, the system causes the computing device to open the secondary application and display a user interface of the secondary application. In response to a particular user input on the user interface, the system searches the third-party application or the integrated application for particular content of the third-party application that satisfies a criterion included in the particular user input. The system causes the computing device to present at least an indication of the particular content of the third-party application within the graphical user interface of the secondary application.