Browser-Based Application Portal for Unified Cross-Platform Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face inefficiencies when switching between multiple software applications, particularly those from different vendors and operating systems, and existing CRM applications lock users into a single platform, limiting flexibility and consistency.
Innovation Solution
A browser-based application interface portal integrates and unifies access to software applications across different operating systems and servers, allowing drag-and-drop integration of cross-platform applications and workflows, with visual editing and restyling to provide a cohesive user experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users access multiple software applications from different vendors and operating systems, then application functionality and versatility are improved, but user efficiency and ease of operation deteriorate due to the need to switch between applications
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple software applications from different vendors and operating systems into a single unified browser-based interface portal. This consolidation allows users to access diverse application functionalities through one consistent interface, eliminating the need to switch between separate applications and thereby improving user efficiency while maintaining versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The browser-based interface portal serves as a universal platform that can access and integrate multiple different software applications from various vendors and operating systems. This multi-functional approach allows a single interface to perform the roles of multiple separate applications, enhancing ease of operation without sacrificing application diversity.
2Ease of operation
If a CRM application integrates multiple functions into a single software application, then ease of operation is improved, but adaptability deteriorates as users are locked into a single platform
Solution Approach 1:
The browser-based interface portal provides universal access to multiple different CRM applications and other software from various vendors. Users can access integrated functionality from one interface while maintaining the flexibility to choose from multiple platforms and vendors, thereby resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The browser-based interface portal acts as an intermediary layer between the user and multiple underlying software applications. This mediator provides a consistent, unified interface for ease of operation while allowing users to access diverse applications from different platforms, thereby maintaining adaptability and platform flexibility.
3Loss of information
If data is retrieved from external web applications, then information availability is improved, but interface consistency deteriorates due to varying data formats and styles
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts data from external web applications and separates it from its original formatting and styling. By pulling out just the essential information and presenting it through the unified browser-based interface, the system maintains information availability while ensuring interface consistency across different data sources.
Solution Approach 2:
The browser-based interface portal applies local quality by presenting data from different external sources with uniform formatting and styling specific to the portal's interface design. This allows the system to maintain the diverse information content from multiple sources while ensuring each data source is displayed with consistent local characteristics that match the overall interface.
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AI summary
Systems and methods are provided for managing multiple software applications. A browser-based application interface portal provides users a single, unified portal for accessing software applications running on different operating systems, hosted servers, and third party servers, as well as web applications. The executed applications may then be integrated into the portal. The data retrieved from external web applications may be filtered, reformatted, and restyled to provide only the information of interest to the user and to provide a more consistent interface for the information.