Methods and systems for inter-application communication

摘要

Methods and systems are provided for inter-application communication using messages posted on a bulletin board.

主权项

1. A computer system, comprising:
at least one processor; memory associated with the at least one processor; and a plurality of application programs supported in the memory that can be executed by the at least one processor, each of the application programs capable of processing data and displaying data to a user of the computer system, at least one of said application programs being configured to post data on a bulletin board for use by another one of said application programs in response to a user input, and wherein said another one of said application programs is configured to (i) listen for data posted by another application program, (ii) determine independently and for itself if the data posted is semantically relevant to said another one of said application programs, and (iii) when the data is determined to be semantically relevant to said another one of said application programs to process the data and display results to the user.