US 7,925,988 B2 · System and method for providing sticky applications

Abstract

A system and method for providing sticky applications are provided. A “sticky application” is an operating system (OS) level application that has the ability to “stick” to web applications and become a part of the web page on which the web application is running. While the sticky application is stuck to the web application, it behaves as if it were a web application with respect to the user. When the user chooses to “unstick” the application, it will return to behaving as an OS level application. The sticky application imitates being a web-based application instead of an operating system level application while stuck. This imitation involves the sticky application being placed on pixel coordinates within a web page of the web application and the sticky application remaining in the pixel coordinates within the web page where it is placed even when a user modifies the representation of the web page.

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Dependent claims

A method, in a data processing system, for representing a first application on a display of the data processing system, comprising:

receiving a command to stick a first graphical representation of a first application to a second graphical representation of a second application on the display of the data processing system;
and
generating a third graphical representation of the first application, wherein the third graphical representation of the first application appears to be integrated with the second graphical representation of the second application, wherein the first application may be interacted with by a user via the third graphical representation, and wherein the third graphical representation is automatically modified in response to modifications to the second graphical representation of the second application.

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to:

receive a command to stick a first graphical representation of a first application to a second graphical representation of a second application on the display of the data processing system;
and
generate a third graphical representation of the first application, wherein the third graphical representation of the first application appears to be integrated with the second graphical representation of the second application, wherein the first application may be interacted with by a user via the third graphical representation, and wherein the third graphical representation is automatically modified in response to modifications to the second graphical representation of the second application.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

System and method for providing sticky applications

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Abstract

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