Patent ID: 11941431
Assignee: PARALLELS INTERNATIONAL GMBH
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for managing software applications, comprising:
establishing a chain application comprising a sequence of two or more applications; wherein
each application of the two or more application has associated with it an application profile which contains information pertaining to the types of data can be passed into the respective application and the types of data that can be produced by the application;
the two or more applications are identified by selections made with respect to a graphical user interface (GUI) presenting a plurality of applications whilst a chain application creation and management utility is in execution;
the chain application creation and management utility automatically establishes an order of the two or more applications in establishing the chain application in dependence upon application profiles of the two or more applications;
each application profile contains information pertaining to one or more types of data that can be passed into the application and one or more other types of data that can be produced by the application,
the chain application creation and management utility establishes the order of the two or more application such that every application within the two or more applications is linked within the chain application in a compatible manner with another application of the two or more applications; and
in the event of multiple options for ordering the two or more applications the chain application creation and management utility employs a tiebreaker comprising either random selection or alphabetical order.