Write back of documents opened in third-party applications

摘要

Embodiments of the present disclosure may include a system and method for passing documents between sandboxed applications in an efficient manner. When a document is passed from a source application to a target application, information regarding when the document was passed and to which application the document was passed to is stored in a document history table. Once the document is passed back to the source application, a document matching manager relies on information stored in the history table to determine if the document being passed back should overwrite a previous version of the document. If the document matching manager cannot determine that the previous version of the document should be overwritten, a user may be prompted to store the document at a desired location.

主权项

1. An apparatus comprising:
a memory; a plurality of sandboxed applications stored in the memory; a plurality of document tables stored in the memory and associated with the applications, wherein each document table comprises information related to documents associated with a given application, wherein each document table is within the respective sandbox of the corresponding sandboxed application; and a processor to:
search the document table associated with a source application if a new document is being passed from a target application back to the source application; anddetermine whether to overwrite an existing document with the new document being passed back based on information in the document table wherein, if the existing document is modified after the new document was initially passed to the target application, the processor prompts a user to store the new document at a desired location.