METADATA DRIVEN COLLABORATION BETWEEN APPLICATIONS AND WEB SERVICES

摘要

Methods and systems may involve identifying metadata associated with a local application, and using an operating system-independent chat protocol to pass the metadata to a remote application. The metadata may include information to be presented to a user of a device executing the remote application, information to be used to locate more information for presentation to the user of the other device, information to be used to coordinate operation of multiple devices, and so forth. In one example, the metadata is passed using a protocol such as XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol).

主权项

1. At least one computer accessible storage medium comprising a set of instructions which, if executed by a processor, cause a computer to:
identify metadata associated with a local application resident on a first device; use an extensible markup language to generate a stanza that includes the metadata; identify a social networking status of a remote application in a common workspace, wherein the remote application is to be resident on a second device; use an extensible messaging and presence protocol to pass the stanza to the remote application in one or more of a peer-to-peer and a server based architecture; and update a social networking status of the local application in the common workspace based on the stanza.