Unified Workspace Container for Cross-Application Orchestration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current data access and collaboration tools in computer systems are limited in supporting work orchestration and integration across multiple applications, failing to leverage enterprise resources for business processes, and lack effective management and monitoring of work practices, especially in complex business situations involving unstructured information.
Innovation Solution
A server-generated workspace container that provisions content, interfaces, and tools to enable users to perform work collaboratively, allowing for the transformation and management of diverse data types, with features like request-to-perform mechanisms, state management, and dynamic user interaction, which integrates with enterprise systems for business process management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If separate development and manual integration of content is used for cross-application work, then individual application functionality is maintained, but work orchestration efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple application contexts and content types into a unified workspace container that orchestrates work across different applications. The server generates a single container that provisions content, interfaces, and tools from multiple sources, eliminating the need for separate development and manual integration while maintaining the functionality of individual applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The workspace container serves as a universal interface that can handle diverse data types and resources from different applications simultaneously. It provides multi-functional capabilities including content provisioning, interface generation, tool integration, and work orchestration in a single unified structure, replacing multiple separate integration processes.
2Ease of operation
If social networking tools are used for collaboration, then communication capability is improved, but work management capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The workspace container acts as an intermediary that bridges social collaboration tools and enterprise work management systems. It provisions content and interfaces that enable collaborative interaction while simultaneously integrating with enterprise resources and business processes, allowing both communication and work management in a unified environment.
3Adaptability or versatility
If enterprise systems are integrated for business processes, then resource leverage is improved, but system complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complexity of enterprise system integration from the user interface layer and consolidates it in the server-generated workspace container. The container provisions content and interfaces that access enterprise resources without exposing the underlying system complexity to users, simplifying the user experience while maintaining comprehensive enterprise integration.
4Adaptability or versatility
If multiple applications are used for different data types, then data type coverage is improved, but access coordination deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The workspace container provides a universal access interface that can retrieve and coordinate diverse data types from multiple applications through a single unified structure. It provisions content that encompasses various data types and resources while managing access coordination centrally, eliminating the need for users to navigate multiple applications separately.
Data Source
AI summary
A workspace container provides data content in a generic way with interfaces and tools common to data of different types. The container has an owner, and may include one or more activities, which each have an objective and are associated with various resources to accomplish the objective. User interaction in the container transforms the container contents and is persisted with the container. Different data types are represented uniformly from the perspective of data input, data access, and display rendering. Additionally, common tools can be embedded within the container, which receive content items and user-generated content as input to transform the container contents at a runtime of the container. The container may also be collaborative, with multiple users having access to the data content simultaneously (except for actual content collisions). The container may be exposed to another user through request-to-perform techniques as passed through a work package.