Enterprise Portal Native App Integration via Metadata
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing enterprise portal systems lack the ability to seamlessly integrate and manage native applications on mobile devices, limiting user productivity and efficiency due to fragmented resource management and lack of contextual environments tailored to individual user identities.
Innovation Solution
A business enterprise portal system that connects with mobile devices to identify, generate metadata for, and launch native applications, providing a contextual environment by associating metadata with user digital identities, enabling unified access and management of native applications through a web-based interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If enterprise portal systems provide web-based access only, then accessibility is maintained, but integration with native applications is limited and resource management becomes fragmented
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a portal server as an intermediary component that mediates between the web portal and native applications on mobile devices. The portal server analyzes device information, identifies applicable native applications, generates metadata, and launches these applications through the web portal interface, thereby enabling integration without requiring direct complex connections between all system components.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the integration function into distinct components: a portal server that handles analysis and metadata generation, and a mobile device that hosts the native applications. This segmentation allows the web portal to maintain simplicity while achieving native application integration through coordinated interaction between segmented components.
2Productivity
If native applications operate independently without portal integration, then application functionality is maintained, but resource management becomes fragmented and productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the resource management capabilities of the enterprise portal with the functionality of native applications by generating unified metadata that encompasses both web-based and native application resources. This consolidation allows users to access and manage resources through a single portal interface, improving productivity while maintaining ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The portal server is designed with universal functionality to handle both web-based content and native application integration. By generating metadata that represents both types of resources uniformly, the system enables the portal to serve multiple functions - providing web access, managing native applications, and consolidating resource management - thereby improving productivity without complicating user interaction.
3Adaptability or versatility
If no metadata is generated for native applications, then system simplicity is maintained, but contextual environments tailored to user identities cannot be provided
Solution Approach 1:
The portal server performs preliminary analysis of device information and generation of metadata before the user actually needs to access native applications. By pre-generating and storing metadata that includes user context information, the system enables tailored contextual environments to be provided quickly and efficiently without adding complexity to the actual application launch process.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a metadata representation (a copy of essential information) about native applications and user contexts. This metadata copy contains the necessary contextual information tailored to user identities, allowing the portal to provide customized environments without requiring direct complex interactions with the actual applications or user data stores.
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AI summary
The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for integrating native applications into web portals. One computer-implemented method includes connecting a business enterprise portal (BEP) with a mobile device, wherein the BEP provides web-based and native-application-based content; analyzing the mobile device with the BEP to identify a native application applicable to the BEP, the native application associated with the web-based and native-application-based content and locally operational in the mobile device; generating metadata associated with at least the native application; generating a data object representing the native application and the associated metadata; and launching, from the BEP, the native application using the generated metadata.