Context sensitive framework for providing data from relevant applications

摘要

Functionality is disclosed herein for using a context sensitive framework to identify relevant applications to a current context and to provide data received from the relevant applications to a user. Instead of a user having to manually locate and launch an application, relevant applications determined by a contextual service may provide data in response to receiving the context data. The applications that are identified as relevant to the context determine the application data to provide to the contextual service. The contextual service selects at least a portion of the application data to provide for display within a user interface. In some configurations, the selected application data is displayed within a user interface that maintains a same look and feel regardless of the application data that is displayed.

主权项

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereupon which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:
receive context data, the context data associated with a use of a user computing device; identify a first application that is relevant to the context; activate the first application on the user computing device; send the context data to the first application; receive first application data from the first application, the first application providing the first application data based, at least in part, on the context data; identify a second application that is relevant to the first application data; activate the second application on the user computing device; send at least a portion of the first application data and at least a portion of the context data to the second application; receive second application data from the second application, the second application based, at least in part, on the first application data and the context data; and provide at least a portion of one or more of the first application data and the second application data to the user computing device.