Patent ID: 11861294
Assignee: EMBARCADERO TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. A non-transitory computer-usable storage medium having instructions embodied therein that when executed cause a computer system to perform a method for passively relating data to metadata, said method comprising:
creating associations, at a first computer system, that relate data in a first database to metadata in a second database, wherein an association links said data to said metadata, wherein said data is managed by a software application at a second computer system, wherein said creating said associations occurs automatically without user interaction;
syndicating said associations at said first computer system to said software application at said second computer system associated with said data;
displaying a visual clue in a graphical interface of said software application at said second computer system, wherein said visual clue corresponds to a visual representation of said data, and wherein said visual clue is created based on said metadata and said associations; and
upon detecting a user interaction with said visual clue:
searching for said metadata corresponding to said visual clue based on said associations of said visual clue;
displaying at least a first portion of said metadata in said graphical interface; and
displaying a selectable link in said first portion of said metadata.